Protected: The songs and genes of Marsh Wrens tell of two species in North America
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys
It’s a morning many birders dream of: You wake up, make your morning coffee, and settle in to read the eBird rare bird alerts that rolled into your inbox as you slept. Suddenly, you see something that makes your heart race—a rare bird you’ve never seen before was sighted in your area!
Distinctive casque morphologies among cassowary species
The irony of writing a story about 45-kilogram cassowaries—with forelimbs as small as those of chickens—for a blog called Wing Beat is not lost upon me. My coauthors and I are particularly excited to publish a paper for Ornithology about these flightless birds, as it seems most of the researched avian species in this journal are no larger than a mango.
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) congratulates 2025 Classes of AOS Fellows and Elective Members
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) welcomes and congratulates the 2025 classes of AOS Fellows and Elective Members. Individuals are elected to these special membership classes in recognition of their exceptional and sustained contributions to ornithology and to the AOS. Congratulations to our newest members of these esteemed groups! 2025 AOS Elective Members Marcella D.Baiz Mary …
AOS 2026 nominations and applications open
Nominations are now open for the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS) 2026 Council, Classes of Fellows and Elective Members, and various Society awards. You can help make the AOS stronger by participating in these important annual elections for leadership roles within our Society and by recognizing the achievements of our members.
Call for Papers: Wesley Lanyon Early-Career Review Paper Award
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is excited to announce a Call for Papers for the current cycle of the Wesley Lanyon Award, a publication award for the best review paper authored by an early-career researcher. The 2027 Wesley Lanyon Award will be selected from eligible review papers published in 2025 or 2026. It will provide …
New AOS editorial assistance program for non-native English speakers
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) journals, Ornithology and Ornithological Applications, are excited to announce a new Peer Editing Program that provides English-language editing assistance for AOS members whose primary language is not English.
Announcing the 2025–26 AOS Council
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 American Ornithological Society (AOS) Council election. The AOS Council is the Society’s governing body, made up of member volunteers.
Faiza Hafeez | Faces of AOS
“Over the past few years, the AOS has become my primary scientific society and it has played a big role in my professional growth by providing me with a lot of skills as well as a forum to make meaningful contributions.”
A familiar bird with an unfamiliar beak: Beak deformities in Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk) may be a signal of an emerging disease
Biologists with the former Falcon Research Group had been studying these charismatic birds since the mid-1980s in the state of Washington, but it wasn’t until the winter of 1996–1997 that they first captured an unusual B. jamaicensis with a strange, elongated beak.