Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie
Abbreviation	MPIO
Formation	19 March 2004 (19 March 2004)
Dissolved	31 December 2022 (31 December 2022)
Type	Research institute
Purpose	Basic research
Location	Pöcking-Seewiesen, Bavaria, Germany
Coordinates	47°58′21″N 11°14′08″E / 47.972456°N 11.235666°E / 47.972456; 11.235666
Fields	Organismic biology, zoology, ornithology, neurobiology, behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics
Parent organization	Max Planck Society
Staff (2016)	about 150

The Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Ornithologie, abbreviated MPIO) was a non-university research institution under the sponsorship of the Max Planck Society. As of 1 January 2023, it merged with the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology (MPIN) to form the new Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (MPI-BI). The MPIO was located in Seewiesen, which belongs to the municipality of Pöcking in Upper Bavaria.

The institutes’s focus was on basic scientific research in the fields of organismic biology, zoology, ornithology, neurobiology, behavioural ecology, evolutionary biology and evolutionary genetics. The institute is managed on a collegial basis, i.e. one of the two directors of the institute takes over the management for a certain time period. The last managing director was Manfred Gahr (2020–2022).^[1]