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    The quarterly publication of the Association of Field Ornithologists emphasizes the descriptive or experimental study of birds in their natural habitats.
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    The Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO) is a membership organization dedicated to the study and conservation of birds and their natural habitats.
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    The Association of Field Ornithologists will provide one-year membership awards to qualified Latin American Ornithologists, including professionals, non-professionals, and students.
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Grad student experience from a Latin American Bergstrom awardee

Grad student experience from a Latin American Bergstrom awardee

Grad student experience from a Latin American Bergstrom awardee Click here to view the article in Spanish I could come up with a long and boring lecture picturing how my 5-year PhD came together. Opposite to that, the picture of

Juan Manuel Rojas Ripari November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Funding, Grants & Awards, Meetings, Member research, Students Read more

2018 meeting recap

2018 meeting recap

2018 meeting recap Between the 7th and 9th June, 2018 AFO held its annual meeting jointly with the Wilson Ornithological Society at the Chattanooga Convention Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The meeting offered nearly 100 oral and poster presentations. Highlights from

Jennifer Smith August 26, 2019September 21, 2020 Meetings Read more

The effect of whisper calls on the settlement decisions in female Veeries

The effect of whisper calls on the settlement decisions in female Veeries

One of this year’s Student Presentation Awards goes to William Fetzner, who recently graduated from Texas Tech University with an M.S. in Biology. William presented his research in an oral presentation in a Vocalization & Communication session of the joint

Matthew Shumar July 29, 2018September 18, 2020 Grants & Awards, Meetings, Students Read more

Implications for using singed feathers in determining geographic origin with wildlife forensics approaches

Implications for using singed feathers in determining geographic origin with wildlife forensics approaches

One of this year’s Student Presentation Awards goes to Abigail Reid, a high school student in the Science Research Program at Pawling High School, NY. Abigail presented her research as an oral presentation in a Methodology & Techniques session of

Matthew Shumar June 29, 2018September 18, 2020 Grants & Awards, Meetings, Students Read more

AFO Afield – June 2017 issue

AFO Afield – June 2017 issue

AFO Afield – June 2017 issue The most recent issue of the Association of Field Ornithologist’s biannual newsletter, AFO Afield is now available for download. In this issue, we provide a summary of the NAOC VI meeting that was held in Washington

Jennifer Smith June 19, 2017September 21, 2020 AFO Afield, Grants & Awards, Meetings Read more

Maggie MacPherson’s poster at SICB 2017

Maggie MacPherson’s poster at SICB 2017

Maggie MacPherson presented a poster on the evolution of migrationof Tyrannus flycatchers at this year’s Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 4-8, 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: macpherson-sicb-2017

Alex Jahn January 11, 2017September 18, 2020 Meetings, TyrannusNet Read more

Diego Tuero’s poster at ISBE2016

Diego Tuero’s poster at ISBE2016

Our colleague from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Diego Tuero, presented the following poster on sexual selection in Fork-tailed Flycatchers (Tyrannus savana) at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (http://www.isbe2016.com/).

Alex Jahn August 23, 2016September 18, 2020 Meetings, TyrannusNet Read more

Poster presentations at NAOC2016

Poster presentations at NAOC2016

From 17 to 20 August 2016, several of us participated in the sixth North American Ornithological Conference (http://naoc2016.cvent.com), held in Washington DC. Three of the posters we presented on various aspects of Fork-tailed Flycatcher ecology are shown below.

Alex Jahn August 20, 2016September 18, 2020 Meetings, TyrannusNet Read more

AFO Afield

The Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO) is pleased to announce that the most recent issue of our biannual newsletter, AFO Afield is now available for download. As the newly appointed newsletter editor, I have been working together with AFO President Reed

Jennifer Smith March 9, 2015September 21, 2020 AFO Afield, Meetings, website news Read more

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