EOU News
Tagging Urban Birds – seeking advice
Dear EOU members, My name is Greg Eckhartt and I have recently embarked on a research project in which I will be tagging urban blackbirds in the UK. I am hoping to canvas the expertise and experience of the EOU member base with a particular brand of tags we may look...
MLSG Meeting, Lund 2023
Report on the 3rd EOU Fledglings Meeting, Debrecen, Hungary
Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary – research fellowship opportunity
Both the intensification of agriculture and increasing urbanisation lead to the degradation of natural habitats, negatively impacting wildlife and their ecosystem functions. However, these effects not only occur locally but can also be measured much further away, i.e....
Urban Ecology positions at the University of Turin
We are currently seeking to hire a post-doc and a PhD student to undertake ornithological research in urban environments in Turin, Italy, as part of a large, multi-partner, national-scale project. Urbanization represents one of the most severe forms of human impact....
EOU Conference 2023 – Call for Symposia, Round Tables and pre-congress meetings
EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION Call for Symposia proposals, round tables, and pre-congress meetings 14th EOU Conference Lund, Sweden 21-25 August 2023 Deadline for submitting symposium proposals: 9 September 2022 We invite you to submit symposium proposals for the...
Member Forum – Announcements
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....
post-doctoral opportunities at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (8 Sept 2019 application deadline)
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites applications for our Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships. These competitive postdoctoral fellowship awards (www.birds.cornell.edu/postdoc ) support innovative, independent research by early career scholars of exceptional...
PhD opportunity for Russian student
Opportunity for PhD Moscow & Groningen, NL: Ancient timers in dynamic environments This PhD is co-supervised by Eldar Rakhimberdiev (Moscow State University), Julia Karagicheva (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research) and Barbara Helm (Universty of...
Workshop: DRONE REGULATION & TECHNOLOGY April 9-12 2019
Western Section Workshops in Partnership with IGIS DRONE REGULATION & TECHNOLOGY April 9-12 2019 Place: Hastings Reserve, Monterey Co., CA This workshop will provide an overview of UAS technology, regulations and image analysis in support of drone applications....