Last night (Friday, Brazil time) the long awaited urban birds 'round table' was held from 8 - 9:30pm. About 55 congressistas turned up, which was an OK turnout. The discussion ranged from the general to the particular, and few if any issues moved to consensus stage, except that everyone agreed that the discussion should continue towards the next IOC in 2014 in Tokyo. I'm going to set up an online forum with the 50-odd email addresses that we harvested last night. That's great, as it was what I anticipated would be the main (and most useful) outcome from the RTD.
The sessions today are the last in this IOC, and we have the congress banquet tonight - after which I'm off to São Paulo about noon tomorrow (Sunday). My email access might be a bit hit and miss over Sunday - Tuesday, until I get to Golder's São Paulo office on Wednesday (Brazil time). Thursday I'll be in transit from São Paulo to Belo Horizonte most of the day.
This morning I went birding out near the Horto Florestal with a couple of other congressistas, and amongst other things saw lekking Blue Manakins. They are utterly bizarre and stunning little birds, and the lekking behaviour is unlike anything seen in birds of the Australasian region.
Until later ...
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