How a Special Gift Can Help

Lab members and friends generously provide most of our annual operating budget, but we also have a wish list for special projects. To sponsor a project or for more information, please contact Scott Sutcliffe at (607) 254-2424 or sas10@cornell.edu.

Provide scholarships to students for the Home Study Course in Bird Biology. Students worldwide will participate and benefit: $500/student

Rachel Ashegbofe Ikemeh of Lagos, Nigeria, is one of two 2005 recipients of the Lab's Home Study Course in Bird Biology scholarship.

Kevin T. Karlson

Sponsor an expedition to acquire the previously unrecorded voice of the Spectacled Eider in the high Arctic: $15,000.

Provide funds to design and construct a periodical and newspaper display for the Adelson Library: $3,000.

Dustin Rubenstein

Support a student from the Dominican Republic in the Lab's Tropical Field Ornithology class at Punta Cana--a great way to give back to the local community: $700/student.

Earlier this year, 16 Cornell students traveled to Kenya for a biology field course led by Lab scientist Irby Lovette. The course gave its students the rare opportunity to experience life as a field biologist in the African bush.

Susan E. Spear/CLO

Assist with student transportation to and from the Lab and campus, from dawn to dusk. Your gift assures van operation for a full year: $5,000.

The shuttle: an important connection between the Lab and the Cornell campus.

Purchase and endow a case for bird collections in the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: $4,000/case. Curator Kim Bostwick with a case housing some of the study specimens in the museum's collection of birds from around the world

Susan E. Spear/CLO

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