OSME at the Global Birdfair 11-13 July 2025
OSME will again have a stand at the Global Birdfair to be held at the Lyndon Top, Rutland, UK on the 11th to 13th July. If you are an OSME member please make sure you come and visit us...
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OSME 46th AGM: registration now open
The 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online using Zoom on Saturday 26th October 2024, from 10.00 – 11.00am (GMT). Please register in advance using the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrceihqjsiGtKEQFX7CoD39Ks9w9Q4pfVl Copies of the draft minutes of the 45th AGM are available...
Save the date: OSME 46th AGM
The 46th Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online using Zoom on Saturday 26th October 2024, from 10.00 – 11.00am (GMT). Members will be notified of the Zoom link shortly. Copies of the draft minutes of the 45th AGM are available on the OSME...
Running a marathon for OSME
On the 7th of September OSME supporter, Ed Stubbings will be running a marathon in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. Funds raised for OSME will be specifically for our Youth Development Fund to support initiatives...
A new Flyway Monitoring Traineeship at Batumi in collaboration with OSME
Over the past decade, migration monitoring has become more and more popular along the East Afro-Eurasian Flyway, with projects (re)starting across the OSME region in the Caucasus, the Middle East and Central Asia. Simultaneously, these projects regularly get approached by ambitious...
Tackling illegal bird killing – call for proposals
Illegal bird killing is one of the key threats affecting birds, especially during migration, in many countries across the OSME region. OSME has joined forces with BirdLife Finland to provide a funding opportunity to support conservation efforts...
Batumi Raptor Count need volunteer counters
Batumi in Georgia is one of the most impressive raptor migration bottlenecks in the world, with more than 1 million birds of prey passing overhead on their way south each autumn. And Batumi Raptor Count is a...
OSME at the CMS COP in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 12-17 February 2024
Guest blog by Tomas Axén Haraldsson The UN convention CMS refers to the Convention of Conservation of Migratory Species. Every fourth year, delegations from the signatory member states to the convention, plus many organisations, charities, donors, and...
Student placements in Kyrgzstan
The Ornithological Society of Kyrgyzstan is accepting applications for student and research placements for 2024! The Ornithological Society of Kyrgyzstan (OSKG) is based in Bishkek, the leafy capital of the Kyrgyz Republic. It aims to raise awareness...
Register now for OSME’s next online Winter Meeting
The next OSME online meeting will be held on the 20th January at 10am (UK time). The meeting is free to attend, and all are welcome. Registration is now open, and you can register using the following...
Save the date: 20th January 2024 – OSME’s next online Winter Meeting
Unfortunately, we had to postpone our planned winter meeting and move it from December to January. The new date is the 20th January, so please add this date to your diary. Our previous online meetings have been...
OSME 45th Annual General Meeting
We will be holding this digitally via Zoom on Saturday, 18th November 2023, from 10.00 – 11.00 (GMT). Copies of the draft minutes of the 44th AGM and the Draft Trustee Report and Accounts for 2022 will...
Besh Barmag: autumn migration 2023 – call for counters!
Do you want to witness one of the world’s best bird migration spectacles? On the first of September the third full season of Besh Barmag Bird Migration Count kicks off in Azerbaijan. For three months until 30...
Raising funds for Sociable Lapwing conservation in Uzbekistan
The Bird Conservation Fund in the US are working with OSME to raise funds for our colleagues in Uzbekistan to support conservation work on the Critically Endangered Sociable Lapwing. The Talimarzhan Reservoir area on the Uzbekistan and...