| 2022 | • July 17-20, Santa Fe, New Mexico • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Bicknell’s Thrush: Scientific surprises and conservation connections across the hemisphere,” Chris Rimmer • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2021 | • April 15–19, virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Northeast Natural History Conference • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Long-term Research on an Ordinary Extraordinary Songbird: The Dark-eyed Junco, ”Dr. Ellen Ketterson • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2020 | • August 10–15, virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic • Held in conjunction with the 7th North American Ornithological Conference • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Three decades of studying Neotropical birds: Lessons learned along the way,” Dr. Bette Loiselle • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2019 | • October 27–30, Cape May, New Jersey • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists and hosted by New Jersey Audubon • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Transformation of familiar birds into model organisms: What chickadees can teach us,” Dr. Robert L. Curry • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2018 | • June 6–9, Chattanooga, Tennessee • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “The challenges of long-term research: getting the work done and keeping it relevant,” Dr. Reed Bowman • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2017 | • March 9–12, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida • Held jointly with the North American Banding Council • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Stopover biology of migratory songbirds: challenges, consequences, and connections,” Dr. Frank R. Moore • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2016 | • August 15–20, Washington, DC • Held in conjunction with the 6th North American Ornithological Conference • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Nomads, pioneers and fugitives: on the move in a capricious world,” Dr. John Wingfield • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2015 | • July 15–19, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists / Société des ornithologistes du Canada • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Bird observatories: diversity and opportunity,” Dr. Erica Dunn • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2014 | • May 29–June 1, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Birdsong: the hour before dawn,” Dr. Don Kroodsma • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2013 | • March 7–10, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia • 2013 Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “From passion to science to the evolution of avian color,” Dr. Edward H. Burtt, Jr.; • 2012 Margaret Morse Nice Lecture (presented in 2013): “A long term study of Darwin’s finches,” Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2012 | • August 14–18, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia • Held in conjunction with the 5th North American Ornithological Conference; Margaret Morse Nice lecture deferred to 2013 • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2011 | • March 9–13, Kearney, Nebraska • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists and the Cooper Ornithological Society • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Ecology of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers: By necessity, a multidisciplinary study,” Dr. Richard N. Conner • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2010 | • May 20–22, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Brood parasitism in cuckoos, cowbirds, and African finches,” Dr. Robert B. Payne and Laura Payne • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2009 | • April 9–12, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Radar ornithology at different spatial scales,” Dr. Sidney Gauthreaux, Jr. • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2008 | • April 17–20, Mobile, Alabama • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Thinking like a mountain, seeing like a woodpecker: behavioral ecology and conservation of woodpeckers,” Dr. Jerome Jackson • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2007 | • March 22-25, Wakefield, Massachusetts • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Not exactly your ‘nice’ sparrow,” Dr. Douglas Mock and Dr. Patricia L. Shwagmeyer • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2006 | • October 3–7, Veracruz, Mexico • Held in conjunction with the 4th North American Ornithological Conference • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Ornithology in a troubled country: progress, problems, and recent work on nectar-feeding birds,” Dr. Gary Stiles • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2005 | • April 21–24, Beltsville, Maryland • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Territoriality… beyond the temperate zone,” Drs. Bridget Stutchbury and Eugene Morton • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2004 | • April 22–25, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Birds ‘R’ Us: Chronicles of an avian anthropologist,” Dr. Steven Emlen • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2003 | • March 19–23, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “The cognitive face of avian life histories,” Dr. Robert Ricklefs • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2002 | • April 11–14, Fort Meyers, Florida • Held jointly with the Association of Field Ornithologists • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “Population change in migratory songbirds: insights from long-term studies in breeding and wintering grounds,” Dr. Richard T. Holmes • Full meeting proceedings |
| 2001 | • May 3–6, Fayetteville, Arkansas • Held jointly with the Arkansas Audubon Society • Margaret Morse Nice Lecture: “The behavior and ecology of the Florida Scrub-Jay: A 33-year perspective,” Dr. Glen E. Woolfenden • Full meeting proceedings |
Proceedings from earlier meetings can be found by searching JSTOR or SORA. A list of the first to the 100th Wilson Ornithological Society Meetings (1914–2019) is available for download here.
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