2026 NestWatch Grant Awardees

We are pleased to announce the NestWatch Grant awardees for 2026. With support from our generous donors, the program was able to award $66,000 to 14 organizations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. These funds will support local research, management, and community-based partnerships that amplify conservation outcomes for nesting birds in the neotropics. Thank you to everyone who applied; the next request for proposals will open in June 2027.

A bird standing on a mossy rock against a green background. It looks like a cross between a chicken and a heron, with a long decurved black bill, white-ish head, gray back and tail feathers, and pinkish-red feet.
Andean Ibis © Chandler Roberts / Macaulay Library

2026 Funded Projects

  • Reproductive biology and nesting success of the Andean Ibis (Theristicus branickii) in the Andes of southeastern Peru
    Recipient: Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad
  • Conservation of the Yellow-naped Amazon (Amazona auropalliata) through the installation of artificial nests on Ometepe Island (Nicaragua)
    Recipient: Cooperativa de Agroturismo Rural BIOMETEPE R.L (BIOMETEPE)
  • Filling critical knowledge gaps in the nesting biology of the endangered and elusive Black-capped Petrel in Haiti (U.S. Virgin Islands & Haiti)
    Recipient: Environmental Protection in the Caribbean (EPIC)
  • Strengthening the La Malinche community-based biocultural monitoring network for the conservation of breeding birds through the NestWatch program (Mexico)
    Recipient: Instituto para la Conservación de la Cordillera Neovolcánica ante el Cambio Climático (ICCoNeCC AC)
  • Reproductive monitoring of the Yellow Cardinal (Gubernatrix cristata) in a population at the southern limit of its distribution (Argentina)
    Recipient: Instituto de Investigaciones en Diversidad y Medio Ambientes – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina (INIBIOMA-CONICET)
  • Nest monitoring of two reintroduced endangered birds in Northeastern Brazil, the Grey-breasted Parakeet and the Ceara Gnateater
    Recipient: Aquasis
  • Nest survival and reproductive success of the Cocoi Heron (Ardea cocoi) at the southern limit of its breeding range in Patagonia, Argentina
    Recipient: Fundación ProyectoSub
A green parrot with yellow nape feathers perched on a tree branch.
Yellow-naped Amazon © Guillermo Saborío Vega / Macaulay Library
  • Nesting biology of the Turquoise-winged Parrotlet (Forpus spengeli) in urban and peri-urban landscapes of Northern Colombia
    Recipient: Fundación Ecosistemas Secos de Colombia
  • Nesting ecology and reproductive success of the Cock-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus tricolor) in managed grasslands of Barba Azul Nature Reserve, Bolivia
    Recipient: Asociación Civil Armonía
  • Reproductive monitoring to evaluate recovery of three threatened seabird species on Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
    Recipient: Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas
  • Nest survival and effects of anthropogenic disturbance on the reproductive success of the Peruvian Thick-knee (Hesperoburhinus superciliaris) at the National University of Trujillo, Peru, main campus
    Recipient: Perú Women Birders
  • The nesting ecology of the Pawi (Trinidad Piping-guan, Pipile pipile), a critically endangered island endemic (Trinidad and Tobago)
    Recipient: The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
  • Optimizing the future of the Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis): data-driven strategies for artificial nest management (Bolivia)
    Recipient: Conservacion de Loros en Bolivia
  • Nest distribution, habitat associations, and reproductive biology of the Niceforo’s Wren (Thryophilus nicefori) in the municipalities of Soatá, Tipacoque, and San Mateo, Boyacá, Colombia
    Recipient: Asociación Red Comunitaria de Turismo Rural de las Provincias de Norte y Gutiérrez de Boyacá. Red Convite Provincial