Burrowing
Owl
Conference
September 7-10, 2026
Aruba

Join us at JOIA Aruba by Iberostar.

Conference Program

Monday 7 8am – 6pm	Tuesday 8 8am – 6pm	Wednesday 9 8am – 6pm	Thursday 10 8am – 3pm
Mike Eman – Prime minister of Aruba Opening Conference – CANCELLED	Lauren Meads – ‘Burrowing Owl Recovery in British Columbia: Where Have the Owls Gone?” (video)	Greg Peterson – ‘Shoco habitat at the Aruba Gulf Club’	Artificial Burrow Workshop
Honor for David Johnson by Keith Swindle (video)	Cynthia C. Steiner, Ph. D. – ‘Revisiting Burrowing Owl Taxonomy Using Range-Wide Genomic Data’	Footage inside a shoco nest (video)	Artificial burrow placement
Ing. Jareth Vermeulen – Shoco Ambassadors – Wave of Change	Anahi Formoso Ph. D. – ‘Burrowing Owls and their answers to a foreign calling’	Dr. Ricardo Gogorza – ‘Taking care of Wounded Shocos’	Shoco Sanctuary Tour at Tierra del Sol
Gisbert Boekhoudt (DNM) – Nature and Shoco Policy of Aruba. (video)	Priscilla Esclarski – Burrowing Owls: Forms and Frontiers’	Ravindra Veeranna – Xavier University Aruba	Closing Event
Marck Oduber Ph.D. – ‘The Shoco Effect: From Protecting One Owl to Managing an Entire Island’	Gabriella Carlos Mendes – ‘Surviving in a human-exploited landscape: challenges and implications for Burrowing Owl conservation’	Ruben Fijn -Waardenburg Ecology Netherlands – ‘GPS tagging of Shocos’
Greg Peterson – Aruba Birdlife Conservation – Shoco Conservation in Aruba	Vanessa Salas – ‘Science and education for The conservation of Owls in Venezuela’ (video)	Colleen Wisinski – ‘Burrowing owl translocation’
Lunch at BUCATINI	Angie Penagos – ‘exploring climate variation in the burrowing owl insights from Aruba and South America’	Dries van Nieuwenhuyse – ‘Turning Shoco insights into conservation’ (video)
Marald van Montfoort – Documentary – Two birds one Rock	Colleen Wisinski – Burrowing Owl Recovery Program – Burrowing owl bioacoustic research	Janske van de Crommenacker – Saving the shoco: local leadership, global partnership – Vogelbescherming Nederland
Sharona Jurgens – University of Aruba – Urbanization in Aruba	Alyssa Stetson Giaquinto – ‘The Lethal Impact of Rodenticides on Wildlife’ (video)	Cocktail Hour