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Since its inauguration in 1883, the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) has striven to advance the scientific understanding of birds, enrich ornithology as a profession, and promote a rigorous scientific basis for the conservation of birds. Although the AOU has successfully pursued this mission for more than 130 years, membership in the AOU—like many scientific and academic professional societies—has recently declined. Recent membership trends prompted officers, council members, and committee members to reflect on how the AOU can better support ornithologists across all career stages and types. The AOU consequently initiated a long-range planning initiative and formed the Membership Committee in 2015 to design and disseminate a questionnaire composed of both closed-ended (Supplementary Material Table S1) and open-ended (Supplementary Material Table S2) questions to survey current members, lapsed members, and nonmembers. Here, we analyze trends in these data and share unedited survey responses to promote transparency and engender discussion about how the AOU can better serve ornithologists and the field of ornithology.

Membership trends in the American Ornithologists' Union and the evolving role of professional ornithological societies