18 August 2025
IN-PERSON (INTERNATIONAL)
Woodland birds
This one-day symposium will take place on registration day at EOU 2025. There will be no additional charge to attend. Submit your abstract below!
Call for abstracts
The call for abstracts is open. If you would like to deliver an oral presentation at the symposium, please submit your abstract, via the link below, by 30 May 2025.
Submit oral abstract Deadline: 30 May 2025
Aims and scope
Woodland birds comprise a broad spectrum of species that offer excellent model systems for a diverse range of key topics, including phenology and climate change, migration, habitat loss and urbanisation, invasive species, and disease ecology. They include some of the best-studied birds on the planet (e.g. Great Tit, Pied Flycatcher), but also enigmatic and declining species (e.g. White-backed Woodpecker, Western Capercaillie). In recent years, woodlands have come under increasing threat, and birds have become important flagship species for research on habitat degradation, rewilding and forestry management. Many have suffered severe declines or range restrictions; in the UK, for example, woodland species are currently the fastest declining group of birds despite significant increases in woodland cover. As such, this symposium offers a timely opportunity to bring together members from the many active research groups working on woodland birds across Europe and beyond, with great potential to discuss emerging topics in ecology and conservation, and exciting directions for future work.
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:
BOU2025
BOUsci24
BOUasm24
BOU2024
Scientific Programme Committee
Stuart Sharp | Lancaster University (Chair)
Malcolm Burgess | RSPB
Daria Dadam | Natural England & BOU Meetings Committee
Sue Anne Zollinger | Manchester Metropolitan University
Image credits
Spotted Flycatcher | caroline legg CC BY 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
Wytham Great Wood | Pierre Terre Wikimedia Commons
White-backed Woodpecker | Andrey Gulivanov CC BY 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
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