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The fossil toe bones of Golden and Bald eagles provide hints about how they adapted to Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Photo by Oona Takano.
06 April 2020

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900 Tiny Toe Bones Tell a Story About Prehistoric Eagles

Oona Takano’s research focuses on how something big — Pleistocene megafauna extinctions — affected something very small: the toe bones of eagles.

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A truffle partially eaten by birds. Photo by Matthew Smith.
19 February 2020

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Birds & Truffles in Chile’s Temperate Rainforests

How does a fungal ecologist end up getting a grant from an ornithological society?

15 January 2020

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Congratulations to the 2020 Student Membership Award Winners!

These awards provide one year of free membership to students who have not previously been members of the society.

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Prashant observing Asian Woollynecks in the field.
18 July 2019

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#GlobalAOS: Prashant Ghimire

This July and August, we’re running a special series of blog posts profiling AOS members around the world, in honor of the recent change to AOS’s bylaws eliminated any reference specifying the …

08 July 2019

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Congratulations to the 2019 Student Presentation Award Winners

Every year, the American Ornithological Society bestows a range of Student Presentation Awards on students at all levels (undergraduate, masters, and doctoral) who present outstanding posters or oral presentations at the our annual …

07 May 2019

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Congratulations 2019 Student & Postdoctoral Travel Award Winners

This year, AOS is providing a record amount of travel funding — over $125,000 — to students and postdoctoral researchers attending our upcoming annual meeting in Anchorage, Alaska. These awards …

30 April 2019

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Congratulations to the 2019 Student & Postdoc Research Award Winners

AOS is proud to recognize the students and postdoctoral researchers who are receiving research funding through our 2019 Student and Postdoctoral Research Awards! These annual awards, each up to $2500, honor …

25 March 2019

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Mentors, Consider Involving Your Students in Peer Review

The American Ornithological Society is committed to providing professional development opportunities for our members. With that in mind, if you’re a faculty member and are invited to review a paper for The …

11 January 2019

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Congratulations to This Year’s Student Membership Award Winners!

Congratulations to the 2019 recipients of AOS’s Student Membership Awards! These awards provide one year of free membership to students who have not previously been members of the society. Winners, we …

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