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American Ornithologists' Union

LC control no.n 50063586
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingAmerican Ornithologists' Union
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Variant(s)AOU
A.O.U.
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). American Ornithologists' Union
See alsoMergee: Cooper Ornithological Society
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Product of merger: American Ornithological Society
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Biography/History noteThe Union was organized on Sept. 26, 1883; and incorporated in Washington, D.C. in Nov. 1888
Beginning date1883-09-26
Ending date2016-10
Associated countryUnited States
Field of activityOrnithology
Found inIts The code of nomenclature ... 1886.
Grants, awards, and prizes in orinithology, 1993: t.p. (American Arnithologists' Union, National Museum of Natural History)
American Ornithological Society website, January 25, 2017: home page (The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is official! The American Ornithologists' Union and Cooper Ornithological Society officially merged to form AOS in October 2016)
   <http://www.americanornithology.org/>
Associated languageeng