North Star’s Grant Program is run every other year, so the next one will be in 2012/13

In 2003, we launched our first annual grant program and provided 3 PTTs to each of two projects in S. America, one on Pink-footed Shearwaters and one on Blue-eyed Shags.  The next year, we provided 3 PTTs to a raptor migration project in N. America and another 3 PTTs to an Andean Flamingo project in S. America.  In 2005, we provided 4 PTTs for a project on Christmas Island Frigatebirds, 3 PTTs to a White-rumped Vulture project in Nepal, and 1 PTT to a Whooping Crane reintroduction project in the USA.  In 2006, we provided 2 PTTs to a study of Long-billed Curlews in the western USA, 1 PTT to a Black-browed Albatross project in the Falklands Islands, 2 PTTs to the continuation of the Christmas Island Frigatebird project, and 3 PTTs to a project on wintering Siberian Cranes in China.  In 2007, we provided 2 PTTs to track reintroduced Whooping Cranes in the USA, 4 PTTs to track Spectacled Petrels off Brazil, and 2 PTTs to track Blue Ducks in New Zealand.  In 2009/10, we awarded another 8 PTTs to worthy projects.

To date, we have provided a total of 44 PTTs to the world’s research community, worth a total retail value of about $132,000.  So the next time you make a buying decision for PTTs, ask yourself if you are supporting a company that is giving something back to the research community, or not.  We can only hope that your buying decisions will be affected (to some small degree) by our generosity to the clients we serve.