Call for Abstracts for Oral Presentations & Posters

Submission Deadline Extended: 19 March 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET Submission form: AOS Member Portal We invite ornithologists to present their work at the 2023 joint conference of the American Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian Ornithology–Société des ornithologistes du Canada to be held in London, Ontario, 8–12 August 2023. This in-person meeting offers a …

Faces of Ornithology

Ornithologists don’t fit into a single mold.  We work in all types of places, from academia, to museums, to government agencies, to non-profit organizations, to corporations. Some of us are researchers, while others are policy makers or advocates, managers or administrators, educators or executives, curators or conservationists—and many of us fit in multiple categories. Some …

A multi-pronged approach to animal tracking and the benefits of wide-ranging collaborations

By Ann E. McKellar Linked Paper: Weak genetic structure, shared nonbreeding areas, and extensive movement in a declining waterbird by Nicholas G. Shephard, Patricia Szczys, David J. Moore, Matthew W. Reudink, Jeffrey N. Costa, Annie M. Bracey, Simeon Lisovski, and Ann E. McKellar, Ornithological Applications. The Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) is a species of concern in …

Call for Workshops & Training Opportunities

Submission Deadline: 10 February 2023, at 11:59 p.m. ET We seek a varied suite of proposals for workshops and training opportunities at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists–Société des ornithologistes du Canada (SCO–SOC) to be held in London, Ontario, 8–12 August 2023. Our aim is …

Call for Roundtable Discussions

Submission Deadline: 10 February 2023, at 11:59 p.m. EST We seek a varied suite of proposals for roundtable discussions at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists–Société des ornithologistes du Canada (SCO–SOC), to be held in London, Ontario, 8–12 August 2023. Proposals should address timely topics …

The AOS welcomes two new associate editors for Ornithological Applications

The AOS journal, Ornithological Applications, welcomes two new associate editors. Luis Sandoval leads the Urban Ecology and Animal Communication Laboratory at the University of Costa Rica School of Biology. He studies bioacoustics, urban ecology, reproduction and sexual selection. Thomas J. (T.J.) Benson is a Principal Research Scientist with the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University …

Strategic Planning: Charting Our Path to the AOS’s Future

By Judith Scarl, Executive Director and CEO The last decade has been a wild and wonderful journey for the American Ornithological Society (AOS), as we’ve changed, grown, and adapted in significant and positive ways. In 2015, we merged two major ornithological societies, the American Ornithologists’ Union and the Cooper Ornithological Society. The year before, in …

Congratulations to the 2022 AOS Kessel Research Fellowship Awardees

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is pleased to announce the awardees of the 2022 Kessel Research Fellowships for early-career scientists. Two new $15,000 fellowships were awarded to Dr. Umesh Srinivasan and Dr. Amberleigh Henschen to support their ornithological research. Congratulations to these awardees!  These fellowships have been made possible through a generous bequest by Dr. …

AOS journals now accepting submissions of Insights and Monographs

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) journals, Ornithology and Ornithological Applications, are pleased to announce two new article types: Insights and Monographs.  Insights are invited, short papers (15 pages maximum, inclusive of all content except figures, figure captions, and tables) framed around a high-quality photo, video, audio, computer animation, or illustration of a bird, behavior, species …