EOU News
4 postdocs wanted in project “Towards monitoring, understanding and forecasting Global Biomass flows of Aerial Migrants (GloBAM)”
We are seeking four postdocs for our project “Towards monitoring, understanding and forecasting Global Biomass flows of Aerial Migrants (GloBAM)”. GloBAM is a BioDivERsa (www.biodiversa.org) research project with partners in Switzerland, Belgium, Finland, The...
read more12th EOU Conference: Extended deadline for submitting symposia proposals
Reminder: Call for Symposia proposals 12th EOU Conference Cluj-Napoca, Romania 26 – 30 August 2019 New Deadline for submitting symposia proposals: 9 December 2018 We would kindly remind you to submit symposia proposals for the 12th Conference of the European...
read more12th EOU Conference: Call for Proposals
Call for Symposia proposals, round tables, and pre- and post-congress meetings 12th EOU Conference Cluj-Napoca, Romania 26 – 30 August 2019 Deadline for submitting symposium proposals: 1 December 2018 We invite you to submit symposia proposals for the 12th Conference...
read morePre-Symposium organized by the European Ornithologist Union at the IOC 2018
IOC, 20 August 2018 Applied aspects of avian urban ecology – an international initiative Pre-Symposium organized by the European Ornithologist Union Co-Conveners: Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo, Mark Mainwaring, S. James Reynolds and Petra Sumasgutner Place: Vancouver...
read moreFledglings Meeting 2018 Turin: registration opened
Fledglings Meeting 2018 will be held in Turin, Italy, 26 -28 October 2018 The meeting is targeted at early career researchers (so ‘young’ in career terms rather than years!), in particular students (Bachelor, Master and PhD) and those who have completed their...
read more21st Conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC)
The 21st Conference of the European Bird Census Council (EBCC) called Bird Numbers 2019 ‘Counting birds counts’ will be held in Evora, Portugal, on 8-13th April 2019. EBCC conferences are held every three years, bringing together people involved in bird monitoring,...
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Postdoc on blue tit phenology in Edinburgh, Scotland
Albert Phillimore is looking for a postdoc for his work on blue tits along a multi-site transect in Scotland: A three-year postdoctoral research position is available in a NERC funded project studying the relationship between temperature and optimal breeding phenology...
read moreTwo postdoctoral research posts available
Both posts are funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council, on a project that aims to understand demographic variation and population dynamics arising in partially-migratory systems. Quantitative ecologist (24 months), to undertake statistical analyses of a...
read moreNew: Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity
Dear friends and colleagues, I am forwarding this announcement and invitation on behalf of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity. The JWB is a new journal covering several aspects of wildlife and biodiversity research. We are now looking for...
read morePhD vacancy
The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) based in Wageningen is looking for a PhD-candidate for research on the ecology of goose migration to the Arctic: https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacatures/phd-arctic-migration-ecology.
read moreJob announcement: Coordinator of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme
The Czech Society for Ornithology/EBCC is looking for a Coordinator of the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme. A candidate will be responsible for producing European common bird trends and indicators. Applications should be sent before 3 September 2017. For...
read morepost-doc positions available: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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...
read morePhD-candidate vacancy
The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) based in Wageningen is looking for a PhD-candidate for research on behavioural and physiological mechanisms mediating the costs and benefits of migration: https://nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacatures/phd-student-animal-migration.
read moreAnimal Movement Analysis summer course
The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is pleased to announce our Animal Movement Analysis summer course which will be held at the University of Amsterdam from 2-7 July 2017. We will be running the course together with the research school...
read morePhD positions available
The Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics has an opening for two PhD positions in movement ecology Closing date is 15 March 2017. More information can be found here:...
read morePostdoc and MSc vacancies at UCC
Postdoc and a research Masters positions on the new SHINE project on Hen Harrier ecology and conservation at UCC are available. For further details please have a look at https://www.ucc.ie/en/forestecology/research/shine/ and the attachments. OrnithologyPostDocadvert...
read moreWANTED: data on flock size of migrant birds departing from stopover sites
Andrew Berdahl, a postdoc at the Santa Fe Institute (USA), works on social animal behaviour, particularly in the context on migration. He is working with a physicist to make a more general version of a migration timing model that he originally developed for fish...
read moreMigrant Landbird Study Group pre-conference meetings
We would like to announce that we will host a 2 day meeting organised by the Migrant Landbird Study Group in the 2 days prior to the EOU 2017 conference in Turku, Finland. Hence, this meeting will seamlessly join into the EOU start. Registration to this pre-conference...
read morePartnership with International Ornithological Congress 2018 (Canada)
We are happy to announce that the EOU has become an official associate of the upcoming 7th International Ornithological Congress 2018, This will be the largest international bird event in history and will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from 19-26 August, 2018. The...
read moreEurasian Ornithology Congress, 23-27 April 2018, Heidelberg, Germany
The 6th International Eurasian Ornithology Congress (6th IEOC) will be held between 23 and 27 April 2018 in the University of Heidelberg, the oldest university of Germany (founded 1386). Heidelberg is lovely town with a famous old city and castle. We will be delighted...
read moreSpecial issue Phil Trans: Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight
Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitled Moving in a moving medium: new perspectives on flight compiled and edited by Stephen J Portugal and Emily LC Shepard. This content can be accessed at...
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