Category: Journal of Field Ornithology
Journal of Field Ornithology | Editor’s Pick (Volume 96, Issue 3)
We are glad to present this new section, where for each new issue of the JFO, one of the journal’s co-Editors-in-Chief will highlight their favorite paper. This edition is courtesy of Dr. Mark E. Hauber. The selected paper was: “Variation of iris color in Spotted Towhees (Pipilo maculatus) in urban areas in the lower-mainland region […] Read More
Journal of Field Ornithology | Editor’s Pick (Volume 96, Issue 2)
We are glad to present this new section, where for each new issue of the JFO, one of the journal’s co-Editors-in-Chief will highlight their favorite paper. This edition is courtesy of Dr. Rafael Rueda Hernandez. The selected paper was: “The influence of migratory routes, breeding, and wintering grounds on cultural shifts in song of White-throated Sparrows (Zonotrichia albicollis)” by Joel A. Khoo, Amelia J. MacDonald, Ingebjorg Jean K. Hansen, Cody M. Cox, Scott M. Ramsay and Ken A. Otter (2025, Issue 2, JFO). Read More
Journal of Field Ornithology | Editor’s Pick (Volume 96, Issue 1)
We are glad to present this new section, where for each new issue of the JFO, one of the journal’s co-Editors-in-Chief will highlight their favorite paper. This edition is courtesy of Dr. Mark E. Hauber. The selected paper was: “Population estimates of shorebirds on the Atlantic Coast of southern South America generated from large-scale, simultaneous, […] Read More
JFO Education | Good practices for authors and reviewers (Trilingual post)
This post belongs to a new section called “JFO Education”, created by the Journal of Field Ornithology‘s co-Editors-in-Chief Mark Hauber and Rafael Rueda Hernández. This series of posts and articles aim to bring little-discussed publication-related issues to light and find solutions together with the research community. Challenges, solutions and suggested good practices for authors and […] Read More
JFO Education | How long will it take to get my manuscript back? (Trilingual post)
How long will it take to get my manuscript back? We know that the process of publishing an article can be long and tedious. At JFO we attempt to shed light onto this process for our authors. In this article we present a general overview of the reviewing process of your article... and try to explain why sometimes it feels like it takes too long to get sent back to you. Read More
Journal of Field Ornithology | Translation volunteers
In an effort to make our Journal of Field Ornithology more inclusive, the abstracts of all published articles are presented in English and Spanish. At the end of 2023, we noticed we needed some extra help with the translation of the abstracts, so we put out a call for volunteers to translate. 33 people from […] Read More
Guest feature | A canopy net for Cameroon’s rainforest hornbills
Fruit-eating birds of tropical canopies are often large, garish, and loud, but just out of reach for ornithologists. In 1993, my advisor, Dr. Tom Smith, trekked through the rainforests of southern Cameroon with Baka and Badwe’e forest guides hoping to learn more about the movement patterns and diet of hornbills—large, fruit-eating birds thought to be keystone seed dispersers of Central African rainforests. Read More
AFO meetings | AFO-SCO-WOS 2024 joint meeting recap
Welcome! Between July 29 and August 1, 2024, AFO held its annual meeting jointly with its sister societies, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists in Peoria, Illinois. Nothing like three full days of fabulous research, learning, and camaraderie to unite and strengthen our ornithological community! Plenaries and talks Each date began with […] Read More