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Grants, Awards, & Prizes in Ornithology

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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
- Cooper Ornithological Society: Joseph Grinnell Student Research Award

7 January
- Association of Field Ornithologists: E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award (US/Canada applicants)
11 January
- Animal Behavior Society
  Note: to be eligible for the ABS student grants, applicants need to become an active member of ABS prior to applying for a grant (paid in full no later than 8 January)
- Cooper Ornithological Society: Awards (including student research awards except for Grinnell Award [1 Jan.])

15 January
- Association of Avian Veteriniarians: Research Grants (preproposal deadline)
- Bird Studies Canada: Small grants
- Garden Club of America: The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship For Native Bird Habitat
- Audubon Society of Missouri: Graduate Research Scholarship
31 January
- The International Osprey Foundation (TIOF): grant for graduate student research primarily focusing on osprey

February

1 February
- American Ornithologists' Union ~ Research Awards
- 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: Student 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
- American Ornithologists' Union: Senior Awards (nominations sought)
- Bird Studies Canada: Student Research Awards
- Florida Ornithological Society
- 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
- 7 March
  - Biological Research Station of the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve: Graduate and Post-graduate Research Grants
- 11 March
  - Association of Avian Veteriniarians: Research Grants (by invitation; preproposal deadline, 12 Jan.)
- 15 March
  - Eastern Bird Banding Association: Memorial Research Awards
  - Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society: Grants-in-Aid of Research
- 30 March
  - Birds Australia: Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award
July
- 1 July
  - Hawk Migration Association of North America: HMANA Research Award
- 15 July
  - Association of Field Ornithologists:
    - E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award (Latin American applicants)
    - Pamela and Alexander F. Skutch award
  - The Waterbird Society:
    - Kushlan Research Award in Ciconiiform Biology and Conservation
    - Ian Nisbet Research Grants
October
- 14 October
  - Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology:
    - Grants in Aid of Research Program
    - Fellowship of Graduate Student Travel
- 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, 2012
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
- 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!

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