Check out Emma Blackburn on the Guest Blog

Emma Blackburn is doing her PhD on Whinchats at APLORI. Read about the trials and tribulations of field work on this charismatic but declining and often frustrating species.

APLORI new website is now live

Welcome to the new APLORI web site. As with all things web we have traded-off immediacy with depth and accuracy, so inevitably there are errors here and omissions. Nevertheless we hope that the site will mark a new more credible web presence for APLORI.

APLORI to co-host PAOC gala dinner

APLORI will be co-sponsoring the closing banquet at the PAOC this year to celebrate the 10th anniversary of APLORI.

APLORI web site going live on September 24th 2012

The new website will finally go live on the 24th. As with any website it is always work in progress. Contact Will Cresswell to get involved with maintaining and updating the website. A workshop for training for this will be run the week of Nov 12-17th at APLORI

PAOC Poster competition

Thanks to everybodyfor submitting your posters for evaluation. The Scientific Committee members ranked your posters independently and then we averaged the scores. The top 5 will be sponsored by APLORI to attend the PAOC. The results for the top 7 were:

1.       Hope

2.       Crossby

3.       Bakam

4.       Ojay

5.       Fidel

6.       Stella 7.       Dayo

Hope has his own funding so our final list of people that we will financially support for the PAOC is:

Crossby

Bakam

Ojay

Fidel

Stella

Well done to everyone who made the list. Well done to everyone who submitted posters – they were all of an excellent standard. Two posters were not primarily on birds so scored lower than reflected their quality as posters: we can’t change the fact that the PAOC is an ornithological conference!

We will use everybody’s posters at the PAOC subject to maybe a bit of tweaking – we will get back with specific suggestions for improvements on a one to one basis.

APLORI website moving closer to relaunch

As you have probably noticed things are a little incomplete on the new web site. But things should improve over the next few months.

Bird Population Monitoring scheme in Nigeria: Scheme Inception workshop at APLORI

There shall be a workshop  titled:

Development of a new national Bird Population Monitoring scheme in Nigeria

Scheme Inception workshop

To take place in APLORI from the 19th – 21^st September 2011.

As APLORI is the only ornithological research institute in West Africa, the success of this bird monitoring scheme which has been carried out successfully in other countries will solely depend on us. Therefore, as many of you that can make yourself available for this workshop and help the scheme be a success will be appreciated.

For further information contact: ilewigs@yahoo.com