NZ Bird Conference 2025: Call for Abstracts
The Birds New Zealand conference 2025 will be held in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland on King’s Birthday weekend with two days of scientific presentations on Saturday 31stMay and Sunday 1st June and regional field trips on Monday 2nd June.
Abstracts for oral or poster presentations can now be submitted in MS Word format as an attachment to conference@birdsnz.org.nz. Use ‘Oral/Poster Abstract-FIRST AUTHOR LAST NAME’ in the subject line of your email. The closing date for abstract submission will be 31 March 2025. The Conference Scientific Committee will assess all abstracts by the end of April and contact presenters of accepted abstracts with further instructions.
Oral presentations
Oral presentations should be 12 minutes long with an additional 3 minutes for questions. If there are too many 12-minute presentations for the time available, speakers may be given the option of giving a 5-minute talk with no added time for questions. Accompanying slides should be presented using MS ‘PowerPoint’ for use on PC-based projection equipment. Presenters are asked to bear in mind that many of the audience at the conference will be lay people with no tertiary scientific training. Talks, including accompanying PowerPoint slides, should therefore be intelligible to non-scientists. Preference will be given to talks submitted by Birds New Zealand members.
Posters
Posters should be size A0 (841mm × 1189mm) and in portrait orientation. Posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference and presenters will have the opportunity to discuss their poster with conference participants during morning and afternoon tea breaks on each of the two Scientific Days. Advice concerning the presentation of posters is given in “10 Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation” ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1876493/.
Abstracts
Abstracts of accepted presentations from registered conference participants will be included in the conference’s online booklet. Please send a formatted copy for publication to conference@birdsnz.org.nz. Use ‘Abstract-FIRST AUTHOR LAST NAME’ in the subject line of your email. Abstracts submitted for publication should be in the following format: Arial bold 14 point for the title, Arial 11 point for the text of the abstract, single line spacing, single space between sentences and fully justified. Title: Do not use scientific names, no period at end, 20 words maximum. Authors: Author who will present the talk in bold. Indicate each author’s address with superscript numerals. Addresses: The physical address, followed by the email address, of all authors. Body of abstract: 250 words maximum for the body of text. Please indicate if the first author is a student. For examples of previously published abstracts visit: birdsnz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-NZ-Bird-Conference-Programme-and-Abstracts.pdf
For questions, please contact conference@birdsnz.org.nz.