EOU News
4th EOU Fledglings Meeting, Prague, March 2024
We are happy to announce that the next Fledglings Meeting will be in Prague, Czech Republic between 22-24 March 2024. This meeting is specifically aimed at Early-Career Researchers (ECRs, i.e. PhD students and those within 5 years of finishing their PhD) and has the...
Recruiting a new Journal of Field Ornithology co-editor-in-chief
Recruiting a new JFO co-editor-in-chief With a 98-year history (starting in 1925), the Journal of Field Ornithology (JFO) represents one of the longest-published research journals in Ornithology. Starting in 2022, as part of our commitment to lower barriers and...
WORKSHOP: POPULATION & COMMUNITY PARAMETER ESTIMATION USING CAPTURE-MARK-RECAPTURE & OCCUPANCY MODELS
Post-doc contract (6 months) available at the University of Birmingham – Managing and Enabling Future Airspace
Dear EOU Member, I write in regard to a short-term post-doc that we have at the University of Birmingham (UoB), Birmingham, UK. It is available for approximately the next 6 months. We have an EPSRC-funded grant “Managing and Enabling Future Airspace” that still has 6...
International Workshop: Sexual Selection in a Changing World, Erice, Sicily, 17-21 May 2024
International Workshop on: Sexual Selection in a Changing World Erice, Sicily, 17-21 May 2024 We would like to announce our upcoming workshop on "Sexual Selection in a Changing World" in the beautiful Erice, Sicily (Italy), 17-21 May 2024. The onset of the...
Post-doc Position, Antwerp: Linking long-term bird population datasets with environmental data
Postdoc position: Linking long-term bird population datasets with environmental data The University of Antwerp is looking for a postdoctoral researcher skilled in the analysis and management of large datasets, preferably (but not necessarily) having experience with...
Member Forum – Announcements
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....
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...