#BOU2025 – Resources
Frontiers in ornithology
1-3 April 2025
Attendee resources
PROGRAMME
DELEGATE PACK (including abstracts and delegate list)
ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE & KEYNOTE PRESENTERS
WORKSHOPS
CONFERENCE ACCESSIBILITY
WORLD CLOCK including UTC time conversion for your local time (for those following on Bluesky)
Presenter resources
CONFERENCE ACCESSIBILITY
BOU GUIDE TO BLUESKY CONFERENCES
BOU CONFERENCE THREAD EXAMPLES
Aims and scope
Ornithologists are increasingly making use of cutting-edge technologies and other novel approaches to stem the tide of avian extinctions and diversity loss caused by human impacts. With recent rapid technological advancements, increases in computational power, and improvements in wider accessibility, these new approaches could be game-changing for future conservation efforts. Alongside identifying the key threats to individual species, modern technologies and innovative approaches allow us to ask new questions and readdress old challenges, providing exciting insights into avian physiology, behaviour, and population dynamics. Now is the time to bring together researchers, conservationists, and policy makers working at the cutting edge of ornithological research and conservation to share their knowledge on how innovative technologies and novel approaches can help us find solutions to conserve birds in a changing world.
Our parallel conference format
The BOU aims to run inclusive and accessible events. One way we seek to achieve this is by delivering our conferences in parallel on a freely accessible social media platform. From 2025 onwards, this will be Bluesky.
All presenters at our conferences will be invited to post a summary of their presentation on Bluesky, and will be provided with helpful guidelines to support them in doing so. No conference registration, or Bluesky account, is required to view these presentations.
Social media has broadened the reach of our conferences, attracting a significantly larger and more diverse audience than meetings without this element.
You can view previous BOU conferences on Bluesky here:
BOU2024
BOUasm24
BOUsci24
Scientific Programme Committee
Christine Howard | Durham University, UK & BOU Meetings Committee (Chair)
Ailidh Barnes | British Trust for Ornithology
Claire Buchan | University of East Anglia, UK
Oliver Leedham | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Marius Somveille | University College London, UK
Image credits
Top right: Western Black-eared Wheatear | mourad-harzallah CC BY 4.0 Wikimedia Commons
Middle: Griffon Vulture | Pierre Dalous CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia Commons
