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 - Ecologie et Conservation des Oiseaux (ACE-ECO).  The journal is peer-reviewed, electronic, and entirely open-access.  It is published jointly with Bird Studies Canada.

ACE-ECO welcomes any submission related to the conservation and ecology of birds in Canada and across the globe.

NEWS

• The latest issue of Picoides (23(2)) is now available here.a

• The  latest issue (vol 5, iss 1) of ACE-ECO has been published (click here).  It contains numerous research articles, several special feature articles, and an editorial.  Click on the cover image below to access the representative article by Dinsmore et al. about population growth in Mountain Plovers

• The latest annual meeting of the SCO-SOC was held jointly with the AOU and COS in San Diego, California from 7-11 February 2010.  To get caught up, check out the program and abstracts.

• The SCO-SOC was an endorser of an open letter to Canada's Prime Minister and parliamentarians urging them to action on climate change in the lead up to the Copenhagen talks.  The letter had been put forth by the World Wildlife Fund.