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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.

Differences between Partners in Flight roadside sample-based population estimates and spatial model “pixel”-based population estimates align with roadside count and habitat representation differences across 81 species in Northern Alberta, Canada. Red dots indicate species that are well-represented along roads; blue dots indicate species that are under-represented along roads. Filled dots indicate statistically significant differences between population estimates, P < 0.05. (Species codes and values for species represented by unfilled dots can be found in the paper.)

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.

Supporting Science During a Pandemic

More Americans are discovering birding as a hobby during the pandemic, but for many ornithologists, bird research will look quite different this year.