The SCO-SOC is an organization of Canada's ornithological community.

We administer awards, produce two publications, and provide interconnection with other professional ornithological societies.

We produce a tri-annual newsletter: Picoides.

Our professional journal is Avian Conservation and Ecology.  The journal is peer-reviewed, electronic, and entirely open-access.  It is published jointly with Bird Studies Canada.

Avian Conservation and Ecology welcomes any submission related to the conservation and ecology of birds in Canada and worldwide.

NEWS

• The latest issue of the Picoides (25(3)) is now available here.

• The latest issue of the Avian Conservation and Ecology (7(2)) is available here.

Click on the cover image to access the paper by Desrochers et al. on use of clear-cuts by Wilson's Warblers

• Details for the 2013 Student Award applications have been announced here.

• The 2012 meeting of the Society of Canadian Ornithologists was held August 14-18 as part of the NAOC-V.