“Following last years [sic] great success, we have scheduled the next World Seabird Twitter Conference #WSTC4 to be from 17-19 April 2018. The abstract submission is open until 15 February. What we have learned from past participants is that twitter...
The UK’s Royal Society for the Protection of birds (RPSB) is looking for a a Project Officer to work at its headquarters with BirdLife International’s Albatross Task Force, a team of seabird bycatch instructors helping fishers in South America and...
Professor Peter Ryan, since 2014 Director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology at South Africa’s University of Cape Town has this month been inducted into UCT's prestigious College of Fellows at a ceremony and dinner held earlier...
Southern Africa, generally well covered by books on particular groups of birds, now has a seabird book to fill a notable gap and join the existing books on game birds, water birds and raptors. Guide to Seabirds of Southern Africa by Peter Ryan,...
The studentships are funded by the John and Pat Warham Scholarship Fund, a legacy left to the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) by the late John and Pat Warham and aim to provide training to PhD level in research on any aspect of the biology or...
The passing of Chandler Seymour ‘Chan’ Robbins (17 July 1918 - 20 March 2017) this week is a sad loss to ornithology Chandler Robbins’ long career (he lived to 98 years of age and worked well into his retirement years as a volunteer with the U.S....
ACAP’s three official working languages are English, French and Spanish. Following an internship programme implemented in previous years (click here), the ACAP Secretariat hosted postgraduate translation students in Hobart between 13 and 17 February...
Brian Douglas Bell QSM, FOSNZ, FRAO passed away peacefully on 1 October at his home in Marlborough on New Zealand’s South Island, surrounded by family and with views to his garden at the age of 86. From left: Skip Garner-Richards, Biz Bell, Brian Bell...
The organizers of POLAR2018 are now accepting session proposals for the joint SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) and IASC (International Arctic Science Committee) Open Science Conference “Where the Poles meet“, which will be held in...
To mark the holding this week of the Ninth Meeting of ACAP’s Advisory Committee in La Serena, Chile, Portuguese-based cartoonist Marc Parchow Figueiredo has produced another specially commissioned cartoon in his Qual Albatroz series. Back in July 2013...