Brewster Medal

The William Brewster Medal is awarded annually by the American Ornithologists ' Union ( AOU ) were granted to authors or co- authors published an extraordinary work about birds of the Western Hemisphere. The award consists of a medal and honorarium. It is through the William Brewster Memorial Fund of the AOU funded and in honor of the AOU founding member William Brewster (1851-1919) awarded by his friends. The first prize winners were awarded with $ 7,250. From 1921 to 1937, the medal has been awarded every two years, every year from 1938.

Award winners

So far, the following people were honored:

  • 2013 James Van Remsen
  • 2012 Robert Carl Fleischer
  • 2011 Sandra Lee Vehrencamp (* 1948) " for her thorough and insightful body of work on social evolution and animal communication. "
  • 2010 Robert Steven Beissinger "For his innovative contributions, his outstanding research and its long-term dedication in the field of Conservation Biology of birds in the Western Hemisphere ... "
  • 2009 Joanna Burger " for her work on the behavior and ecology of seabirds, inter alia, along with Elizabeth Anne Schreiber in Biology of Marine Birds. '"
  • 2008 Spencer George Sealy " For his work on evolutionary relationships between parasitic Kuhstärlingen and their hosts including songbirds. "
  • 2007 Allan John Baker " for his extraordinary and influential work in molecular evolution of birds ... "
  • 2006 Sidney Anthony Gauthreaux, Jr. " ​​For his exceptional mover and his innovative contributions to studies of bird migration ... "
  • 2005 Robert Martin zinc "For his significant and continued contributions to the systematics of birds, for its phylogenetic phylogeography, for his species theory and its conservation ... "
  • 2004 Paul Russell Balda and Alan Kamil Curtis " For their pioneering work on the biology of North American corvids, especially the cognition of memory, to learning and retention and all adjacent aspects of social behavior ... "
  • 2003, Douglas Wayne Mock " for his insights into the life cycle of birds, for his extraordinary contributions to our understanding of the processes involved in bird families ... "
  • 2002 James Neil Munro Smith ( 1944-2005 ) " For his success in the resolution of the mysteries of bird demography, for his key role in the initiation and maintenance of a major long-term study projects bird ecology and for its success in creating results to evolutionary questions of far-reaching general interest ... "
  • 2001 Stephen Irwin Rothstein "For his internationally recognized and profound contributions to the field of behavioral ecology, evolution and the protection of birds, for his penetrating and objective evaluations in the works of other researchers and for his contributions to the teaching and training of young Ornitholgen ... "
  • 2000 Cynthia Carey " for her innovative and truly integrative research on adaptation of birds at altitude and cold, as well as for their synthesis and constructive role of guidelines for future eco-physiology of birds ... "
  • 1999 Walter Daniel Koenig "For its success in unraveling some of the mysteries of the cooperative incubation and for his outstanding contributions to evolutionary and population ecology ... "
  • 1998 Bennington Frank Gill ( b. 1941 ) " for his research and his incredible services for birds and ornithological society ... "
  • 1997 John Charles Avise " For his contributions to genetic production in studies in the ecology and evolution of birds ... "
  • 1996 Kenneth Paul Able "For his achievements, some [ ... ] mysteries for orientation and navigation to decipher in birds and its outstanding achievements in the field of laboratory research ... "
  • 1995 Eugene Siller Morton ( b. 1940 ) " In recognition of its excellent performance ... "
  • 1994 David Frank McKinney ( 1928-2001 ) "For the major works of an exemplary scientist and teacher ... "
  • 1993 Richard Turner Holmes " for its thoroughness, its richness and its timelessness in his major works ... "
  • 1992 Ned Keith Johnson ( 1932-2003 ) "Because of its many documented skills in field research and its pioneering publications ... "
  • 1991 Warren Lewis Oring " Because of his skills in the field of research and his influential publications " ...
  • 1990 Fred Cooke ( b. 1936 ) Cook provided further important contributions to [ ... ] birds from the region of Hudson Bay. He is also co -author of the book published in 1987, Avian genetics: a population and ecological approach ' ( Academic Press ), which contains significant contributions from him. "
  • Noel Frederick Ralph Snyder ( born 1938 ), 1989 " In recognition of [ the ] top performance in the field of sustainable fieldwork, many highly respected publications and not in question righteousness ... "
  • 1988 Robert B. Payne
  • 1987 Lefevre Jerram Brown ( b. 1950 )
  • 1986 Val Nolan Jr. ( 1920-2008 ) "For his excellent study of rust apex Warbler, a member of a predominantly American group, the beautiful wood warbler ... "
  • 1989 John Weaver Fitzpatrick ( b. 1951 ) and Everett Glen Woolfenden ( 1930 to 2007 ) for their study of the Florida scrub jay -.
  • 1984 Stephen Thompson Emlen
  • 1983 Peter Raymond Grant " for the significant expansion of our knowledge of Darwin's finches and the general significance of his milestones of research. "
  • 1982 Robert Eric Ricklefs (* 1943) "For his new insights and fruitful contributions in different fields. "
  • 1981 William Tinsley Keeton ( 1933-1980 ) ( posthumously )
  • 1980 Frank Alois Pitelka ( 1916-2003 )
  • 1979 William Ryan Dawson For the " totality of the many services provided refreshing insights and the many things he taught us about the way the physiological adaptation of the birds to their environment "
  • 1978 Pierce Brodkorb ( 1908-1992 )
  • 1977 Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee ( 1901-1984 ) for his life's work on taxonomy and distribution of neotropical birds
  • 1976 Gordon Howell Orians ( b. 1932 ) for his studies on the evolutionary ecology of birds.
  • 1975 Jürgen Haffer ( 1932-2010 ) for his series of publications on Ornithogeographie South America.
  • 1974 James Roger King ( 1927-1991 ) for his physiological studies of Zonotrichia sparrows.
  • Rodolfo Amando Philippi 1973 Bañados ( 1905-1969 ), Alfredo William Johnson ( 1894-1979 ) and Jack William Davies Goodall Callaway (1892 (1893? ) -1980 ) For the study of the Chilean avifauna.
  • 1972 David William Snow ( 1924-2009 ) and Barbara Kathleen Snow ( 1921-2007 ) for studies on the biology of neotropical birds.
  • 1971 Charles Gald Sibley ( 1917-1998 ) for his studies of the relationship between higher categories of birds by electrophoretic patterns in the proteins
  • 1970 No ceremony
  • 1969 No ceremony
  • 1968 Edwin Wesley Lanyon (* 1926) for the pioneering studies
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