Grants, Awards, & Prizes in Ornithology

Sorted by deadline date

Alternative: Grants listed by sponsoring organization

Robert L. Curry, Editor

Please note: While we make every effort to keep the information presented here up to date, we cannot guarantee complete accuracy, especially where granting agencies have not provided us with information about changes in deadlines or requirements. We welcome feedback about corrections and updates that may be required.

January

• 1 January
  • American Ornithologists' Union: Student Membership Awards

• 11 January
  • Association of Avian Veteriniarians: Research Grants (preproposal deadline)
  
  
• 14 January
  • Animal Behavior Society
    • Student Research Grants
    • Edward O. Wilson ABS Student Research Grant for Conservation
    Note: to be eligible for the ABS student grants, applicants need to have started or renewed their ABS membership by 31 December of the preceding year


• 15 January
  • American Ornithologists' Union: Senior Awards (nominations sought)
  • Bird Studies Canada: Small grants
  • Cooper Ornithological Society: Awards (including student research awards except for Grinnell Award [14 Apr.])
  • Explorer's Club: Exploration Fund
  • Garden Club of America: The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship For Native Bird Habitat

February

• 1 February
  • Biological Research Station of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve: Graduate and Post-graduate Research Grants
  • Crowder-Messersmith Conservation fund, Audubon Naturalist Society of the Central Atlantic States: small conservation grants
  • Field Museum of Natural History: Graduate Student Fellowships and Undergraduate Internships
  • Rocky Mountain National Park & Rocky Mountain Nature Association: graduate research fellowship
  • Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History: Research Training Program (10-week in-residence summer research program for undergraduate students)
  • Wilson Ornithological Society: Research awards
• 4 February
  • American Ornithologists' Union ~ Research Awards
• 10 February
  • Webster Groves Nature Study Society: Scholarships
    • Menke Scholarship for Wildlife Habitat (undergraduate and graduate students in Missouri colleges and universities)
    • Mickey Scudder Scholarship in Field Biology (graduate students in St. Louis area universities)

• 15 February
  • Association of Field Ornithologists:
    • Pamela and Alexander F. Skutch award
    • E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award
  • Bird Studies Canada: Student Research Awards
  • Florida Ornithological Society
    • Research Award
    • William B. and Mary J. Robertson Fellowship Award
  • Purple Martin Conservation Association: Research and Conservation Grants
  • Raptor Research Foundation: Research Awards
    • Dean Amadon Grant
    • Stephen R. Tully Memorial Grant
    • Leslie Brown Memorial Grant
  • Society of Canadian Ornithologists | Société des Ornithologistes du Canada: Student research awards
    • Taverner Awards
    • James L. Bailey Award
    • Fred Cooke Award

March

• 1 March
  • Wilson Ornithological Society: Student Travel Awards for 2008 Annual Meeting (Mobile, AL, 17-20 April)

• 11 March
  • Association of Avian Veteriniarians: Research Grants (by invitation; preproposal deadline, 12 Jan.)

• 15 March
  • Delaware Museum of Natural History: Ornithology Scholarship
  • Eastern Bird Banding Association: Memorial Research Awards
  • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society: Grants-in-Aid of Research
  • BP Conservation Programme: Research Fellowship Program

• 23 March
  • Cooper Ornithological Society: Joseph Grinnell Student Research Award

• 30 March
  • Birds Australia: Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award

• 15 April
  • Joint meeting of AOU, COS, and SCO (Portland, Oregon, August 4-8): Student awards
    Application for both programs listed must include submission of an expanded abstract. Applicants must hold active membership in at least one of the societies and must separately submit an abstract for a place on the scientific program by same date.
    • Student Travel Awards
    • Student Presentation Awards

May

• 15 May
  • Hawk Migration Association of North America: HMANA Research Award

July

• 15 July
  • The Waterbird Society:
    • Kushlan Research Award in Ciconiiform Biology and Conservation
    • Ian Nisbet Research Grants

September

• 15 September
  • BP Conservation Programme: Research Fellowship Program
• 30 September
  • American Bird Conservancy: Small Grants

October

• 1 October
  • Conservation Research Foundation: Morley Nelson Fellowship

• 15 October
  • Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society: Grants-in-Aid of Research

• 31 October
  • California Waterfowl Association: Dennis Raveling Scholarship for Waterfowl Research
  • Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences: Pablo Canevari Award (every other year; next, 2008

November

• 1 November
  • Field Museum of Natural History: Visiting Scholarships

• 15 November
  • American Museum of Natural History ~ Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund
    • Chapman grants -- supporting graduate research
      
    • Collection Study Grants
    • Chapman Fellowships
    • Student Research Support, Southwestern Research Station

  • American Ornithologists' Union: International Grants
  
  
• 18 November
  • Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: Grants in Aid of Research Program
  
  
• 23 November
  • BP Conservation Programme:
    • Continuation Awards for Conservation Research
    • Future Conservationist Awards
  
  
  
• 30 November
  • Georgia Ornithological Society: Richard Parks Young Birders' Conference Scholarship (for attendance at ABA conference, Quito, Ecuador)
  • Earthwatch Institute: Student Challenge Awards Program

December

• 1 December
  • Colorado Field Ornithologists: Project Fund
  • Georgia Ornithological Society:
    • H. Branch Howe, Jr., Graduate Student Research Grant
    • Bill Terrell Graduate Student Research Grant
  • Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences: Kathleen S. Anderson Award
• 3 December
  • Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute: Sigurd T. Olson Loon Research Award
  
  
• 10 December
  • Neotropical Ornithological Society: Francois Vuilleumier Fund Research Grants (English/Spanish) :: Francois Vuilleumier Fund Research Grants (Portuguese) (pdf files)
  
  
• 15 December
  • Bird Studies Canada: Regular grants

Awards not listed above but included in our master list do not have a set deadline that we know about. Please let us know (Robert.Curry @ villanova.edu) if we're wrong about that, or about any of the deadlines listed here!