Click here to see the list of 2000 winners. Click here to see the list of 1999 winners. Click here to see the list of 1998 winners. Click here to see the list of 1997 winners. 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.
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. Paul A. Stewart Awards Preference will be given to proposals for studies of bird movements based on banding, analysis of recoveries and returns of banded birds, with an emphasis on economic ornithology. For information on the Student Travel Awards , which provide funds for students to attend the annual meeting, and the Alexander Wilson Student Presentation Award , given to the best student paper presented at the annual meeting, please see the Annual Meeting home page. Proposals must state a research hypothesis or specific research goals .