The list of 2025 Research Award recipients is available here. Check back this fall for information on the next application cycle.
Each year, the Wilson Ornithological Society offers four categories of research grant. The focus of each differs somewhat, as does the amount of the award. Willingness to report results of the research as an oral or poster paper at an annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society within the next five years and provide a brief write-up and a photograph of the awardees for the webpage is also a condition of all grants.
Contact: Letitia Reichart, Research Grant Committee Chair, reichartlm@unk.edu
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Grants
The Wilson Society’s most prestigious award is available to all ornithologists, although graduate students and young professionals are preferred. Any avian research is eligible. Up to two awards of $5000 are given annually.
George A. Hall / Harold F. Mayfield Grant
This award is limited to independent researchers without access to funds and facilities available at colleges, universities, or governmental agencies, and is restricted to non-professionals, including high school students. Any kind of avian research is eligible. Up to one $2000 award is given. Formerly known as the Margaret Morse Nice Award.
Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grants
Multiple research grants for any area of ornithology are awarded in this category. Funding requests are considered for budgets up to $4500. Requests for budgets below $4500 are encouraged, if appropriate for proposed research. Two of these awards will be limited to research by Masters students.
Paul A. Stewart Grants
Preference will be given to proposals for studies of bird movements (based on banding, radio or satellite telemetry, or similar methods) or an emphasis on economic ornithology. Up to four awards of $2000 are given annually.
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