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Participants of the 13th Congress of the AOU Original letter to AOU founders, dated August 1, 1883. The American Ornithologists' Union was founded in 1883. Three members of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Elliott Coues, J. A. Allen, and William Brewster, sent letters to 48 prominent ornithologists inviting them "to attend a Convention of American Ornithologists, to be held in New York City ...
Society of Canadian Ornithologists; British Columbia Field Ornithologists; Mexico. CIPAMEX, La Sección Mexicana del Consejo Internacional para la Preservación de las Aves, A.C. USA. American Birding Association; American Ornithological Society (Formed in 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union and the Cooper Ornithological ...
The Union merged with the Cooper Ornithological Society in 2016 to form the American Ornithological Society. [1] The checklist was first published in 1886; [ 2 ] the seventh edition of the checklist was published in 1998 [ 3 ] and is now updated every year by an open-access article published in the Ibis . [ 4 ]
The American Ornithological Society said it is trying to address years of controversy over a list of bird names that include human names deemed offensive.
The AOS changed the name of this species from "oldsquaw" to "long-tailed duck" in 2000.On June 22, 2020, the Bird Names for Birds (BNFB) campaign was launched through a letter to the American Ornithological Society, penned by ornithologists Gabriel Foley and Jordan Rutter, and co-signed by 180 other individuals. [19]
In 2023, the American Ornithological Society decided to rename Wilson's warbler and Wilson's snipe. [14] According to an article about his life, Wilson's meeting with James Audubon "probably inspired Audubon to publish his own book on birds, and he also influenced many later artists and ornithologists". [4]
The American Ornithological Society, the organization responsible for standardizing English bird names across North and South America, announced Wednesday it is going to rename all species named ...
Ornithology, formerly The Auk and The Auk: Ornithological Advances, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS). It was established in 1884 and is published quarterly. The journal covers the anatomy, behavior, and distribution of birds.