AFO grants & awards | Meet the 2024 Skutch Research Grants recipients!

We are proud to present the winners of the 2024 Skutch Research Grants!

The Association of Field Ornithologists has a fellowship program aimed at supporting field researchers at all stages of their careers, including non-professional ornithologists.

Formerly the Bergstrom Grants for Latin America (a mid-year round of the Bergstrom Grants), the Skutch Research Grants are an opportunity for Latin Americans who need funding for their research. Non-academic professionals, undergraduates, Master’s degree candidates, PhD students, Post-docs and avocational ornithologists are eligible for a Skutch Research grant.

Learn more about eligibility and how to apply here. The application deadline for the next round of Skutch Research Grants is July 15th, 2025.

The recipients of this year’s Skutch Research Grants are:

Abril Marcolongo

ARGENTINA

Laboratorio de Ecología y Comportamiento Animal (LEyCA), Universidad de Buenos Aires

Conservation biology of South American flamingos

Pamela Malmoria

ARGENTINA

Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución – IEGEBA/CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Drivers of immune function and infection in a Neotropical austral migrant flycatcher: a full annual perspective

Tamiris Pereira Lima

BRAZIL

Aquasis NGO – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

Resource Partitioning and Trophic Niche Differentiation of Migratory Shorebirds in the Semi-Arid Equatorial Coastal Region of South America

Angie Lopez Arce

COLOMBIA

Universidad ICESI

Nesting strategies in tropical dry forest birds: a natural experiment to forecast the effects of climate change on lowland bird communities

Charo López Lorences

ARGENTINA

Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución – IEGEBA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Why does Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a specialist brood parasite, present social monogamy?

Cecilia Cuatianquiz Lima

MEXICO

Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The use of anthropogenic materials influences on abundance of arthropods and the reproductive success of secondary cavity-nesting birds in a temperate forest in central Mexico

Congratulations, everyone! We wish you the best with your research, and invite you to publish in the Journal of Field Ornithology when you are finished!