Margaret Morse Nice Medal

The Margaret Morse Nice Medal is an ornithological award made annually by the Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS). It was established in 1997 and named in honour of ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974). The medal recipient is expected to give the plenary lecture at the WOS annual general meeting.[1]

Recipients

1997 – Elsie Collias and Nick Collias
1998 – Ellen Ketterson and Val Nolan
1999 – Frances C. James
2000 – Susan M. Smith
2001 – Glen E. Woolfenden
2002 – Richard T. Holmes
2003 – Robert E. Ricklefs
2004 – Stephen T. Emlen
2005 – Bridget J. M. Stutchbury and Eugene S. Morton
2006 – Gary Stiles
2007 – Patricia L. Schwagmeyer and Douglas Mock
2008 – Jerome Jackson
2009 – Sidney A. Gauthreaux
2010 – Robert B. Payne and Laura Payne (University of Michigan), "Brood parasitism in cuckoos, cowbirds, and African finches"
2011 – Richard N. Conner (USDA-Forest Service (retired)), "The ecology of the Red-cockaded Woodpecker, by necessity a multidiscipline study"
2012 - Peter R. Grant & B. Rosemary Grant (Princeton University), "A long-term study of Darwin's Finches"
2013 - Edward Burtt, Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan University), "From passion to science to the evolution of avian color"
2014 - Don Kroodsma (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), "Birdsong: the hour before dawn"
2015 - Erica H. Dunn (Environment Canada}, "Bird observatories: Diversity and opportunity"
2016 - John C. Wingfield (Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior University of California), "Nomads, pioneers and fugitives: on the move in a capricious world"
2018 - Reed Bowman, "Change on the long-term study of the Florida Scrub-Jay: A fifty-year perspective"

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