Nisbet Research Award

Maciej Szajda: Using geolocators to understand migratory routes and winter locations of declining, eastern European Black Terns. Liz Craig: Using stable isotopes to fill information gaps on diet and foraging ecology of New Hampshire Common and Roseate terns. Juliet Lamb: Spatial and disease ecology of Yellow-legged Gulls at the human-wildlife interface.

Kushlan Research Award

Raquel Fransisco: Frequency, diversity, and significance of antimicrobial resistance genes carried by the European White Stork along an anthropogenic risk gradient in Madrid, Spain. Jonah Gula: Using Saddlebill Storks as an umbrella species to inform landscape-scale wetland connectivity and conservation planning in western Zambia.

Waterbird Society Research Award

Nickson E. Otieno: Comparing effectiveness of physical barriers and pond fertilization in mitigating predation pressure by three piscivorous waterbirds on freshwater pond-fish. Erica A. Geldart: Assessing the adaptive capacity of an Arctic seabird (Common Eider) to increased predation risk from polar bears using non-invasive behavioural and physiological metrics. Sarah Clements: Quantifying the causes and consequences of individual decision-making in shorebirds for a fitness perspective on migration habitat conservation.

These grants are funded by endowments provided by the generosity of two former Presidents of the Waterbird Society: Dr. Jim Kushlan and Dr. Ian Nisbet and his wife Shirley; and by the Waterbird Society's general fund ( https://waterbirds.org/researchgrants/).