EOU News
Anonymous survey — device failure rates in bird biologging studies (10–30 min)
Dear EOU member, You are invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments, which you can access at this link (https://forms.gle/fZW9n2dojJVBvNfy9). The goal is to document real-world failure rates and common causes to...
Experienced researcher seeking job opportunities
I'm seeking a research or an academic position in bird ecology, especially in community ecology and monitoring. I'm experienced in bird censusing especially by mapping methods, vegetation and foraging observation sampling, data analyses, paper writing. CV with links...
Doctoral Research Position in gut microbiome-host interactions, University of Jyväskylä
Doctoral Researcher: Gut microbiome metabolism and molecular mechanisms mediating gut microbiome-host interactions A 3-year Doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the...
Candidates for new Ordinary Members of Council 2025
General Meeting Agenda of the 15th EOU Congress (Bangor)
General Meeting of the 15th EOU Congress (Bangor) Friday 22nd August 2025 – lecture theatre PL5 – 17:00h Agenda 1) Welcome by the President Alfonso Marzal 2) Attendance 3) Minutes of the General Meeting of 25th August 2023 (Lund) The minutes are available to members...
Migratory Landbird Study Group (MLSG) Pre-EOU conference symposium Bangor August 2025
The MLSG and the COST Action EUFLYNET will be hosting a symposium on migratory land bird research on the weekend before the EOU conference of...
Member Forum – Announcements
Position: Researcher in Bird Migration, Sempach, Switzerland
Dear all, at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, we have a long tradition in research on bird migration. We are pleased to advertise a position for a migration researcher with rich experience in studying, analyzing and publishing logger data from small landbird...
EOU conference in Lund: book on birdwatching in southern Sweden
For those who attend the EOU conference in Lund and want to combine it with some bird watching in southern Sweden. The Ornithological Society of Scanina, the southern most province of Sweden where Lund is located, published a few years ago a book in English "A Guide...
For those visitng the EOU conference in Lund: Falsterbo Birdshow
Welcome to Falsterbo Bird Show 1st - 3rd September 2023 Positioned directly under the flightpath of more than 1,000,000 migrating birds, Falsterbo Bird Show is an annual event, perfectly located on Skanör’s Heath. The Falsterbo Peninsula lies at the southwesternmost...
Multiple post-doctoral positions available, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Postdoctoral Associate Rusty Rose Postdoctoral Program (BIO16) Cornell Lab of Ornithology Johnson Center for Birds & Biodiversity Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850 The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University embraces diversity and seeks...
Post-doctoral Researcher in Polar Evolutionary Ecology
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice is looking for excellent candidates for a position of Post-doctoral Researcher in Polar Evolutionary Ecology We are a research campus with a strong tradition in biosciences focused on complex...
Post-doctoral fellowship at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
Post-doctoral fellowship at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town Vacancy: ABAX FOUNDATION POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW Closing date: 18th Feb 2022 Role: Spatial analysis of raptor movement data...
Population Ecologist (TT/Senior Scientist)
We, the Animal Ecology Department at the Netherlands Institute fo Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), are looking for a population ecologist (tenure-track/senior researcher) working at the interface of individuals and populations, using our long-term population studies of...
PhD position on song learning in birds
PhD position on song learning in birds Disentangling early life experience and genetics in song learning Based at the Department of Zoology, Stockholm University Project description A 4-year PhD position, funded by the European Research Council, is available in the...
13 PhD positions – Behavioural and Cognitive Biology
Please find attached an advert for 13 fully-funded PhD positions in the field of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology. The wide range of topics and supervising teams include Thomas Bugnyar's group with the raven research, one student will focus on "Effects of early-life...
Volunteers for fieldwork in Belarus and Russia, ÉLVONAL Shorebird project
Volunteer shorebird fieldwork opportunity in Belarus, spring 2020 Description: Within the international project ÉLVONAL Shorebird Science we are investigating in detail sex roles evolution in shorebirds at various locations. Here, we are searching for a motivated...
Postdoctoral Fellow Lund University: immune function as physiological mechanism of partial migration
I am recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow to join my research team at the Department of Biology, Lund University and to work on the causes and consequences of partial migration https://www.biology.lu.se/arne-hegemann. The postdoc fellow will be expected to contribute to...
Workshop: Modeling Population Dynamics, Hungary
Workshop: Modeling Population Dynamics - Estimating Demographic Parameters for Wildlife Conservation Lecturer: Dr. Brett K. Sandercock, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research 13–19 January 2020 University of Debrecen, Hungary The full flyer is here: Demography...
Conference: INTEGRATING SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND POPULATION DEMOGRAPHY FOR CONSERVATION
INTEGRATING SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND POPULATION DEMOGRAPHY FOR CONSERVATION OF WILD POPULATION III. ÉLVONAL CONFERENCE ------------------------------------- 10-12 JANUARY 2020 The Conference will take place between 10th and 12th January 2020 in Debrecen (Hungary). The...
PhD postion Exeter, UK: Disentangling the drivers of life-history evolution in the wild
Disentangling the drivers of life-history evolution in the wild: Artificial selection meets natural selection in a unique avian island population. Full advertisement: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3658 Supervisors: Dr Erik Postma, Department of...
Eurasian Ornithology Congress, Izmir, Turkey, 22-26.04.2020
The 7th International Eurasian Ornithology Congress (IEOC 2020) will be held between 22 and 26 April 2020 at Ege University, İzmir, Turkey. İzmir is a lovely town with a famous old city (Ephesus, the house of virgin marry, etc.) and important bird area Gediz Delta....