2022 AOS Florence Merriam Bailey Award to Amelia-Juliette Demery

Abstract
Amelia-Juliette Demery The Florence Merriam Bailey Award, named for the first woman “associate” of the AOU (1885) and the first woman elected as a Fellow of the AOU (1929), recognizes an outstanding article published in Ornithology or in Ornithological Applications by an early-career AOS member. This year’s award is presented to Amelia-Juliette Demery, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate, Sloan Scholar, Women Leader in Sustainability Fellow at Cornell University, and lead author of the paper, “Bill size, bill shape, and body size constrain bird song evolution on a macroevolutionary scale,” with co-authors Kevin J. Burns and Nicholas A. Mason, published in Ornithology in 2021: In their paper, the authors show connections between 11 song variables in tanagers with specific vocal tract traits, body...