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
Postdoc on songbird migration in Bangor, UK
POSTDOCTORAL OPPORTUNITY AT BANGOR UNIVERSITY Applications are invited for the above 3 year fixed-term, full-time post working in the School of Biological Sciences. We are seeking a dynamic researcher to fulfil a leading role on a BBSRC funded project that will...
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...
Two 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...
New: 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...
PhD 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.
Job 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...
post-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...
PhD-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.
Animal 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...
PhD 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:...
Postdoc 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...
WANTED: 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...
Migrant 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...
Partnership 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...
Eurasian 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...