Elliott Coues Award
Coues Medal
This award recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium provided though the endowed Ralph W. Schreiber Fund of the American Ornithologists Union. The award is named in honor of Elliott Coues, a pioneering ornithologist of the western United States and a founding member of the AOU.
Previous awardees
- 2011 Timothy Birkhead
- 2010 Robert Montgomerie
- 2009 Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
- 2008 P. Dee Boersma
- 2007 Keith A. Hobson
- 2006 Sievert A. Rohwer
- 2005 Nicholas B. Davies
- 2004 Jared Verner
- 2003 Donald E. Kroodsma
- 2002 Jeffrey R. Walters
- 2001 Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr.
- 2000 Thomas E. Martin
- 1999 Sir John R. Krebs
- 1998 Jared M. Diamond
- 1997 Chandler S. Robbins
- 1996 Ellen D. Ketterson
- 1995 Ian Newton
- 1994 Wolfgang Wiltschko
- 1993 Joel L. Cracraft
- 1992 Frances C. James
- 1991 John A. Wiens
- 1990 No Award
- 1989 Peter Berthold
- 1988 Ralph W. Schreiber
- 1987 John C. Wingfield
- 1986 Fernando Nottebohm
- 1985 Thomas R. Howell
- 1984 Thomas J. Cade
- 1983 Masakazu Konishi
- 1982 No Award
- 1981 Amos Ar, Charles Paganelli, and Hermann Rahn
- 1980 Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
- 1979 No Award
- 1978 Joseph J. Hickey
- 1977 Jean Delacour and Ernst Mayr
- 1976 Marler, P.: Variation in the song of the Chaffinch.
- 1975 Richard F. Johnston and Robert K. Selander
- 1975 Walter J. Bock
- 1974 Robert H. MacArthur
- 1973 John T. Emlen Jr.
- 1972 Niko Tinbergen
- 1972 Alexander Wetmore