# Brewster Medal

The William Brewster Memorial Award, usually referred to as the Brewster Medal, is awarded by the American Ornithologists' Union and is named for ornithologist William Brewster. It is given to an author, or coauthors who are not previous recipients, of an exceptional body of work on Western Hemisphere birds. The award comprises a medal and an honorarium provided through the William Brewster Memorial Fund. Established in 1919, the award was first given in 1921, to Robert Ridgway. From 1921 to 1937, it was given biennially; since then it has usually been made annually.

## List of winners

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| 1921: Robert Ridgway (1850–1929) 1923: Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866–1954) 1925: W. E. Clyde Todd (1874–1969) and Melbourne Armstrong Carriker (1879–1965) 1927: John Charles Phillips (1876–1938) 1929: Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878–1944) 1931: Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863–1948) 1933: Frank Chapman (1864–1945) 1935: Herbert Lee Stoddard (1889–1968) 1937: Robert Cushman Murphy (1887–1973) 1938: Thomas Sadler Roberts (1858–1946) 1939: Witmer Stone (1866–1939) (posthumous) 1940: James L. Peters (1890–1952) 1941: Donald Ryder Dickey (1887–1932) and Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (1892–1949) 1942: Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974) 1943: Alden Holmes Miller (1906–1965) 1944: Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996) 1945: Hans Albert Hochbaum (1911–1988) 1946: No Award 1947: Francis H. Kortright 1948: David Lack (1910–1973) 1949: No Award 1950: Alexander Skutch (1904–2004) 1951: Samuel Charles Kendeigh (1904–1986) 1952: John Todd Zimmer (1889–1957) 1953: Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998) 1954: James Bond (1900–1989) 1955: William H. Phelps, Sr. (1875–1965) 1956: George H. Lowery, Jr. (1913–1978) 1957: Robert Porter Allen (1905–1963) 1958: A. William Schorger (1884–1972) 1959: Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978) 1960: Donald Sankey Farner (1915–1988) 1961: Harold F. Mayfield (1911–2007) 1962: Albert Wolfson 1963: Ralph S. Palmer (1914–2003) 1964: Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987) 1965: Ernst W. Mayr (1904–2005) 1966: George A. Bartholomew 1967: W. E. Clyde Todd (also awarded in 1925) 1968: Wesley E. Lanyon 1969: No Award 1970: No Award 1971: Charles Sibley (1917–1998) 1972: David Snow and Barbara Snow 1973: Rudolfo Armando Philippi Bañados and Alfred W. Johnson 1974: James R. King 1975: Jürgen Haffer 1976: Gordon Orians | 1977: Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901–1984) 1978: Pierce Brodkorb (1908–1992) 1979: William R. Dawson 1980: Frank Pitelka 1981: William T. Keeton (1933–1980) 1982: Robert Ricklefs 1983: John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden 1983: Peter R. Grant 1986: Val Nolan, Jr. 1987: Jerram L. Brown 1988: Robert B. Payne 1989: Noel F. R. Snyder 1990: Fred Cooke 1991: Lewis W. Oring 1992: Ned K. Johnson 1993: Richard T. Holmes 1994: D. Frank McKinney 1995: Eugene S. Morton 1996: Kenneth P. Able 1997: John Avise 1998: Frank B. Gill 1999: Walter D. Koenig 2000: Cynthia Carey 2001: Stephen I. Rothstein 2002: James N. M. Smith 2003: Douglas W. Mock 2004: Russell Balda and Alan Kamil 2005: Robert M. Zink 2006: Sidney A. Gauthreaux 2007: Allan J. Baker 2008: Spencer Sealy 2009: Joanna Burger 2010: Steven Robert Beissinger 2011: Sandra L. Vehrencamp 2012: Robert C. Fleischer 2013: James Van Remsen, Jr. 2014: Geoffrey E. Hill 2015: B. Rosemary Grant 2016: Patricia G. Parker 2017: James D. Nichols 2018: Bette A. Loiselle 2019: Helen F. James & Craig Benkman 2020: Regina Macedo, John Rotenberry 2021: Marty Leonard, Kathy Martin 2022: Amanda Rodewald & Roxanna Torres 2023: Cristina Yumi Miyaki & Maren Vitousek 2024: Juan Carlos Reboreda & Renée Duckworth |