The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2023 Kessel Research Fellowship for early-career researchers. Four $15,000 fellowships were awarded to Lucia Mentesana, Facundo X. Palacio, Shailee Shah, and Frank Fogarty to support their ornithological research.
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) welcomes the 2023 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.
Conservation practitioners need information that can help predict species’ ability to cope with rapid environmental changes in order to make management decisions. We wanted to better understand the adaptive capacity of two tidal marsh nesting sparrow species, the Saltmarsh (Ammospiza caudacutus) and Nelson’s (Ammospiza nelsoni) sparrows.
Position Description and Scope of Work SUMMARY The American Ornithological Society (AOS) seeks a Meeting Manager to support AOS’s Meetings Program, including our flagship event, an annual scientific meeting that attracts 800-1000 scientists from across the globe. The Meeting Manager will oversee all aspects of AOS’s Meetings Program, including managing an overall project timeline and …
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is pleased to present the 2023 Wesley Lanyon Award to Dr. Alex Sutton, a lecturer in global change ecology at Bangor University in Wales.
Each year, the American Ornithological Society (AOS) bestows Student Presentation Awards on students at all levels (undergraduate, masters, and doctoral) who present outstanding posters or oral presentations at our annual meeting, this year held at AOS & SCO–SOC 2023 Conference held in London, Ontario, Canada. We offer our thanks to the 2023 Student Presentation Awards …
By Victoria Bakker and Myra Finkelstein Related paper: Lead, trash, DDE, and young age of breeders linked to lower fertility in first two decades of reintroduction for critically endangered California Condors in California by Victoria J. Bakker, Myra E. Finkelstein, Daniel F. Doak, Rachel Wolstenholme, Alacia Welch, Joe Burnett, Arianna Punzalan, Joseph Brandt, Steve Kirkland, …
6 July 2023; 11:25 a.m. — Revised to correct the link to the article in Ornithology. The 64th Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS) Check-list of North American Birds, published today in Ornithology, includes numerous updates to the classification of North American bird species. A few highlights from this year’s supplement, detailed below, include …
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The American Ornithological Society (AOS, or Society) seeks a new editor-in-chief (EIC) for the journal Ornithology. Ornithology is an international, peer-reviewed journal with a 147-year history of publishing original research that advances fundamental, scientific knowledge of living and extinct bird species. Ornithology is published by Oxford University Press (OUP) on a quarterly basis. The journal …
