I am a DPhil Biology student at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. This year, in partnership with the British Ornithologists’ Club, I’ll be starting a PhD at the Edward Grey Institute, with the aim of developing a better understanding of the many facets of bird behaviour and physiology that lead to incidences of avian collisions with human-made structures. The project will seek to identify common traits between the most collision-prone species, with […]
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Celebrating the 1000th meeting of the BOC with Prof. Jon Fjeldså in collaboration with The Linnean Society
The British Ornithologists’ Club and the Linnean Society of London collaborated to host this event in celebration of the 1000th meeting of the BOC. The speaker for this talk was Prof Jon Fjeldså who holds a MSc from Bergen University (Norway) and a Dr.Sci. from Copenhagen University, where he is now professor in biodiversity and in charge of the bird collections of the Zoological Museum. Prof Jon Fjeldså’s talk, ‘The Evolution of Passerine Birds Explained’, […]
Read moreProfessor Jared Diamond to speak at BOC’s 1000th meeting (postponed until further notice)
The British Ornithologists’ Club will this year hold its 1000th meeting since its inauguration on 5 October 1892. In celebration of this significant milestone we are delighted to announce that, in conjunction with the Linnean Society, the Club will hold the first of two evening talks at the Linnean Society’s premises in Burlington House, Piccadilly on Friday 5 June when Dr Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at the University of California at Los Angeles will […]
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Dr Julian Hume on YouTube
We have posted a video at the BOC YouTube channel of a talk presented by Dr Julian Hume, a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum, Tring. An artist specialising in extinct birds by profession, Dr Hume also has a Ph.D. in avian palaeontology and has travelled widely in search of avian palaeontological deposits, especially in the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues, on Madagascar and in Hawaii. He has written a number of books including the […]
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