EOU News
ANNOUCEMENT: XIV European Ornithologists’ Union Congress in Lund
XIV European Ornithologists’ Union Congress Lund 2023 The 14th EOU Congress 2023 will be hosted by the Department of Biology at Lund University, 21-25 August 2023. The department has long been renowned for its ornithological research, for example on bird migration....
Position available on Rockhopper Penguin research project
3-year PhD position at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany Starting 1 July 2022, Application deadline: 26 April 2022 SUMMARY: Over a third of the world population of Southern rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome (IUCN category vulnerable) breed in the Falkland...
Statement of the EOU on the war against Ukraine
Statement of the European Ornithologists’ Union on the war against Ukraine Birds connect people and landscapes across Europe and the globe. Similarly, the ornithological community in Europe and beyond is international and highly interconnected. For this reason, we are...
13th EOU Zoom Conference: Information for General Meeting
Dear Participants of the EOU Conference 2022, attached you will find the agenda for the General Meeting and the slate of candidates who are willing to serve as councils or officers in the next years. Also, the Minutes of the General Meeting in Cluj-Napoca 2019 which...
Programme of the 13th EOU Zoom Conference
Dear Participants of the EOU Conference 2022, Due to the pandemic, our next EOU Conference, planned to be held in Giessen, Germany, will take place as a single-day online format on 15 March 2022. We are happy to announce that the plenary speakers are willing to give...
Notice of Walter J. Bock’s death
In Memoriam Walter J. Bock (20 Nov. 1933—27 Jan. 2022) was a prominent and well-known presence at European and international conferences in ornithology and evolutionary biology and an appreciated and respected colleague and mentor to established and aspiring...
Member Forum – Announcements
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...
Special 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...
European-wide meeting of Young Ornithologists
From 4-6th of November 2016, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences staged the first Fledgelings meeting in Vienna, Austria. Together and with financial aid by the German Ornithological Society (www.do-g.de) and the North Rhine Westphalian...
Postoc position – modelling population dynamics
We are looking for a Postdoc modelling population dynamics using data from a long-term population study with detailed demographic information for a migrant bird. The Post-Doc will be able to develop an own research agenda in collaboration with the research group. The...