William Brewster Memorial Award
Brewster Medal
This award is given annually to the author or co-authors (not previously so honored) of an exceptional body of work on birds of the Western Hemisphere. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium provided through the endowed William Brewster Memorial Fund of the American Ornithologists' Union. The award is in honor of William Brewster, one of the founding members of the AOU.
Previous awardees
Awarded biennially from 1921 - 1937 and annually thereafter.
- 2011 Sandra L. Vehrencamp
- 2010 Steven R. Beissinger
- 2009 Joanna Burger
- 2008 Spencer Sealy
- 2007 Allan J. Baker
- 2006 Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr.
- 2005 Robert M. Zink
- 2004 Russell P. Balda and Alan C. Kamil
- 2003 Douglas W. Mock
- 2002 James N. M. Smith
- 2001 Stephen I. Rothstein
- 2000 Cynthia Carey
- 1999 Walter D. Koenig
- 1998 Frank B. Gill
- 1997 John C. Avise
- 1996 Kenneth P. Able
- 1995 Eugene S. Morton
- 1994 D. Frank McKinney
- 1993 Richard T. Holmes
- 1992 Ned K. Johnson
- 1991 Lewis W. Oring
- 1990 Fred Cooke
- 1989 Noel F. R. Snyder
- 1988 Robert B. Payne
- 1987 Jerram L. Brown
- 1986 Val Nolan Jr.
- 1985 John W. Fitzpatrick and Glen E. Woolfenden
- 1984 Stephen Thompson Emlen
- 1983 Peter R. Grant
- 1982 Robert E. Ricklefs
- 1981 William T. Keeton
- 1980 Frank A. Pitelka
- 1979 William R. Dawson
- 1978 Pierce Brodkorb
- 1977 Rudolphe Meyer de Schauensee
- 1976 Gordon H. Orians
- 1975 Jürgen Haffer
- 1974 James R. King
- 1973 Rudolfo Armando Philippi B. and Alfred W. Johnson
- 1972 David W. Snow and Barbara K. Snow
- 1971 Charles G. Sibley
- 1970 No Award
- 1969 No Award
- 1968 Wesley E. Lanyon
- 1967 W. E. Clyde Todd
- 1966 George A. Bartholomew
- 1965 Ernst Mayr
- 1964 Herbert Friedmann
- 1963 Ralph S. Palmer
- 1962 Albert Wolfson
- 1961 Harold F. Mayfield
- 1960 Donald S. Farner
- 1959 Alexander Wetmore
- 1958 Arlie William Schorger
- 1957 Robert P. Allen
- 1956 George H. Lowery, Jr.
- 1955 William H. Phelps
- 1954 James Bond
- 1953 Hildegarde Howard
- 1952 John T. Zimmer
- 1951 S. Charles Kendeigh
- 1950 Alexander F. Skutch
- 1949 No Award
- 1948 David Lack
- 1947 Francis H. Kortright
- 1946 No Award
- 1945 H. Albert Hochbaum
- 1944 Roger Tory Peterson
- 1943 Alden H. Miller
- 1942 Margaret M. Nice
- 1941 Donald R. Dickey and A. J. van Rossem
- 1940 James Lee Peters
- 1939 Witmer Stone
- 1938 Thomas S. Roberts
- 1937 Robert Cushman Murphy
- 1935 Herbert L. Stoddard
- 1933 Frank M. Chapman
- 1931 Florence Merriam Bailey
- 1929 Carl E. Hellmayr
- 1927 John C. Phillips
- 1925 W. E. Clyde Todd and M. A. Carriker
- 1923 Arthur Cleveland Bent
- 1921 Robert Ridgway