Dilys Breese Medal

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The Dilys Breese Medal is a medal awarded by the British Trust for Ornithology [1] to recognise communicators who help to deliver ornithological science to new audiences. [2] It is named in memory of film maker Dilys Breese, [3] who died in 2007, and was inaugurated in 2009, [2] funded by a bequest from Breese. The medal features a design by Robert Gillmor, [2] showing a robin in front of a TV screen. [2]

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The inaugural awards were made in November 2009, [2] to six recipients [2] at a ceremony at the House of Lords. [2]

Dilys Breese Medallists

Source: British Trust for Ornithology

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