Australasian Ornithological Conference is a biennial meeting of ornithologists that focuses on the Australasian region and Antarctica. Preceded by the short-lived series of two Southern Hemisphere Ornithological Congresses, they were initiated by the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU), also known as Birds Australia, with the inaugural meeting held at Bathurst, New South Wales in 2001. They have subsequently been jointly sponsored by the BirdLife Australia and the Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ).
Conferences 2001 – Bathurst, New South Wales 2003 – Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2005 – Blenheim, New Zealand 2007 – Perth, Western Australia 2009 – Armidale, New South Wales 2011 – Cairns, Queensland 2013 – Auckland, New Zealand 2015 – Adelaide, South Australia 2017 – Geelong, Victoria 2019 – Darwin, Northern Territory 2022 - Auckland, New Zealand (deferred from 2021 and online due to covid) 2023 - Brisbane, Queensland 2025 - Perth, Western Australia
References
Robin, Libby. (2001). Flight of the Emu: one hundred years of Australian ornithology. Melbourne University Press: Melbourne.
External links Birds Australia: AOC AOC Darwin 2019: AOC2019