The deadline for applications and recommendations is Feb. 1, 2016 midnight EST.
Each year, the Wilson Ornithological Society offers four types of research grants for a total of up to 11 awards. The focus of each of the four types of grants 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 a brief write-up and a photograph of the awardees for the webpage are conditions of the three listed below.Click here for more information.
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Grant
;The Wilson Ornithological Society’s most prestigious award is available to all ornithologists, although graduate students and young professionals are given preference. Up to two grants of $2,500 are awarded given annually.
George A. Hall / Harold F. Mayfield Grant
This grant, formerly known as the Margaret Morse Nice Award, is limited to independent researchers without access to funds and facilities available at colleges, universities, or governmental agencies; it is restricted to non-professionals, including high school students. Any kind of avian research is eligible. One $1,000 award may be given each year.
Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grant
Up to four grants of $1500 are given annually, for work in any area of ornithology. Two of these will be limited to research by Masters students.
Paul A. Stewart Grant
These grants are available to all avian researchers and will be awarded with preference given to proposals for studies of bird movements based on banding, radio or satellite telemetry (or similar methods), or with an emphasis on economic ornithology. Up to eight awards of $1,000 (as of 2012) are given annually.