Indoor meetings have resumed at Exeter Hall (details below), but some meetings will be held online using the Zoom video-conferencing system.
Attendance to Zoom meetings is limited to 100 on a first-come-first-served basis, and you must ensure that the membership secretary has your email address to that you can receive the link for each individual meeeting.
| 10/09/2025 (Wed) | Indoor meeting (Exeter Hall): When Kites Hover: Deciphering the Ecological Traps and Triumphs of India's Urban Skies By: Dr Nishant Kumar (Dept BIology, Oxford University) |
| 28/09/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Wytham Woods |
| 08/10/2025 (Wed) | Indoor meeting (Exeter Hall): Dippers as Bioindicators of River Health: a survey of the River Frome catchment in Gloucestershire By: Dr Mark O'Connell (University of Gloucestershire) |
| 19/10/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Summer Leys nature reserve (Northamptonshire) |
| 29/10/2025 (Wed) | Indoor meeting (Exeter Hall): Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture: A Passion for Birds: David Lack and his Contributions to Ornithology By: Dr Andrew Lack (Oxford Brookes University) |
| 16/11/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Farlington Marshes (Hampshire) |
| 10/12/2025 (Wed) | Online meeting (Zoom): Adventures with Island Birds By: Prof Robert Montgomerie (Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) |
| 14/12/2025 (Sun) | Outing to Radley Lakes |
| 14/01/2026 (Wed) | Online meeting (Zoom): Acoustic Monitoring of Birds By Dr Simon Gillings (British Trust for Ornithology) |
| 17/01/2026 (Sat) | Outing to Draycote Reservoir: afternoon walk (Warwickshire) |
| 11/02/2026 (Wed) | Online meeting (Zoom): The White Stork Project By: Laura Vaughan-Hirsch (White Stork Project Manager) |
| 15/02/2026 (Sun) | Outing to River Windrush Valley |
| 11/03/2026 (Wed) | Indoor meeting (Exeter Hall): The Pine Marten By: Dr Johnny Birks |
| 22/03/2026 (Sun) | Outing to College Lake BBOWT reserve (Buckinghamshire) |
| 08/04/2026 (Wed) | Indoor meeting (Exeter Hall): The Goshawk and it's Return to the Cotswolds By: Dr Richard Tyler |
| 16/04/2026 (Thu) | Outing to Farmoor Reservoir |
| 13/05/2026 (Wed) | Indoor meeting (Exeter Hall): Rainforest Stories By: Paul Alistair Collins |
| 17/05/2026 (Sun) | Outing to Pennington Marshes (Hampshire) |
| 14/06/2026 (Sun) | Outing to Otmoor RSPB Reserve |
| 12/07/2026 (Sun) | Outing to Eyebrook Reservoir (Rutland) |
Indoor meetings take place at Exeter Hall, Kidlington. Indoor meetings are free to members; non-members are invited to make a donation.
The start time is 7.45pm prompt and we finish at 10.00pm at the latest.
The Bernard Tucker Memorial Lecture is also held at Exeter Hall and admission is £2.00.
Full details will be published in OOS Bulletins and announced at preceding indoor meetings, or contact the OOS Field Trip Secretary. Unless otherwise stated, outdoor events are free of charge and are open to non-members.
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http://www.oos.org.uk/progics.php to your application.