2020 Coues Award Winner: Thomas Smith

The Elliott Coues Award recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research, regardless of the geographic location of the work.

Message From AOS President and The Diversity & Inclusion Committee

The following is a message from AOS President, Kathy Martin, and AOS Diversity & Inclusion Committee co-chairs, Sharon Gill and Viviana Ruiz Gutierrez: The recent deaths of Black Americans, including George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and David McAtee, at the hands of white police and vigilantes, have highlighted trans-generational systemic racism in U.S. institutions and …

Stay-At-Home Field Ornithology

What do you do when you have to teach field ornithology during a lockdown? This is the dilemma that I shared with many college instructors this spring.

Three Things You Should Know About Population Estimation

Population size estimation is experiencing a bit of a renaissance, due in no small part to the recent “three billion birds lost” paper by Rosenberg et al.