Submission Deadline: 16 March 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET
Abstracts must be submitted through the online AOS Abstract & Speaker Portal. You will need to create a free account on the Member Portal if you do not already have one.
We invite ornithologists to present their work at the 2025 meeting of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) to be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 11–15 August 2025. This in-person meeting offers a wonderful opportunity for sharing and discussing scientific research focusing on avian conservation, education, communication, and more. The meeting will celebrate all of the things that we do with ornithological research to strengthen our science and messaging, improve our collective ability to put our work into action, and share our love for birds and the habitats that support them. Read more about the meeting on the AOS 2025 Meeting website.
By submitting an abstract, the presenting author agrees to register for the meeting and to deliver the presentation in person if it is accepted for the scientific program. We invite submission of abstracts for consideration as either 15-minute oral presentations or poster presentations. Oral presentations are most appropriate for completed projects and poster presentations are especially appropriate for smaller, more concise projects or those in an early or intermediate stage of development; abstracts providing explicit final results are more likely to be accepted for an oral presentation than those with preliminary or ambiguous findings. Because the number of available slots in the scientific program may be limited, presenting authors should submit for only one contributed oral presentation. Attendees who have been invited to present in an accepted symposium have the option to additionally submit an abstract for a contributed oral presentation. However, if we have more oral presentation submissions than we can support, those who are already presenting in a symposium will be asked to give a poster. Note that this will be an exclusively in-person meeting and we will not have the capacity to support pre-recorded or virtual presentations.
If you are not experienced with writing scientific abstracts, consider reading one of the many online writing guides (examples can be found here and here). In general, include 1–2 sentences of background information followed by 1–2 sentences stating the question or hypothesis to be addressed, a brief summary of the methods used, and a brief summary of the key results and interpretation. Be concise, be precise, use first person, and avoid statements that don’t convey information (e.g., “results of our analyses will be discussed”). Abstracts are limited to 1,750 characters including spaces (approximately 250 words).
Calling all student presenters! Each year, the AOS confers several prestigious Student Presentation Awards to students (undergraduate, masters, and doctoral) who present an outstanding poster or oral paper at the society’s annual meeting in a general scientific or symposium session. Each award consists of a $500 honorarium. Individuals wishing to be considered for a Student Presentation Award must have a 2025 membership in the AOS and submit an abstract for the general scientific sessions or their invited symposium session using the online AOS Abstract & Speaker Portal. The submission form will include a set of questions for those who want to be considered for the Student Presentation Award competition.
Please note that spaces are limited and that answering these questions does not guarantee a spot in the competition. Individuals will be notified later as to whether or not they have been invited to compete.
All abstract submissions must be received by 16 March 2025, at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Send questions to Jen Walsh, chair of the Scientific Program Committee (via email to spc[at]americanornithology.org), with the subject AOS 2025 Abstract.
Abstracts must be submitted through the online AOS Abstract & Speaker Portal. You will need to create a free account on the Member Portal if you do not already have one.
Translation Resources / Recursos de traducción
Please note that the submission form is in English. If English is not your primary language, the following documents and online language translation tools may be helpful:
Tenga en cuenta que el formulario de envío está en inglés. Si el inglés no es su idioma principal, los siguientes documentos y herramientas de traducción de idiomas en línea pueden resultarle útiles:
If you need additional translation assistance regarding this form, please contact meeting@americanornithology.org.
Si necesita ayuda adicional con la traducción con respecto a este formulario, comuníquese con meeting@americanornithology.org.
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