Constitutions and Bylaws for SAPE

Statement on Dues

Ornithology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History

Welcome to the Homepage of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, an international scientific society dedicated to the study of the evolution of birds. Here you will find news and information about SAPE, how to become a member of the society, current members, past and future meetings, and links to many sites of importance to those who have an interest in fossil birds, bird origins, or any other aspect of the evolution of birds. We encourage and welcome comments about our webpage so that we may better serve all of our members and visitors to this site.

The Executive council greatly thanks Walter Boles and the Australian Museum for being a fantastic host of the 7th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution in Sydney on 18-22 August 2008.

The meeting was well-attended and abstracts of the many interesting talks and posters can be found at the page Meetings and proceedings.

Read the last Newsletter here: SAPE Newsletter no. 22, October 2008 !

The proceedings of the 2004 SAPE meeting in Quillan have now been published online, with the abstracts being available at the Oryctos website: http://www.dinosauria.org/oryctos.php. Access to the full content of these papers is restricted, and pdfs/reprints are still to be sent to the authors. The printed version of the journal has not yet been published.

Also don't miss SAPE's large and extremely useful collection of paleoornithological bibliographies, reprints, books, data bases, links, etc.: Useful links and Available reprints. These pages are constantly updated by Tommy Tyrberg.