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TAG Annual Report Template TAG Annual Report Template Ciconiiformes & Phoenicopteriformes TAG Annual Report July 2016 *** Please note that Annual Reports must be digitally submitted to AZA Vice President of Animal Conservation ([email protected]) and the TAG’s WCMC Liaison no later than August 1. *** Please adjust the tables as necessary to accommodate complete answers. 1. Please provide a list of the most current TAG Steering Committee members and Advisors. End of Term Institution Phone Email - R. Harrison Edell, Chair DALLAS 469.554.7201 [email protected] Mar-19 Sherry Branch, Vice Chair ORLANDO 407.363.2361 [email protected] Mar-17 Mike Mace SD-WAP 760.738.5077 [email protected] Mar-17 Jim Dunster METROZOO 305.251.0400 x 84965 [email protected] Mar-17 Sue Maher DISNEY AK 407.938.2881 [email protected] Mar-17 Tom Schneider DETROIT 248.336.5828 [email protected] Mar-18 Laurie Conrad SEA WORLD 619.226.4378 [email protected] Mar-18 Stephanie Huettner OMAHA 402.738.2085 [email protected] Mar-18 Scott Newland SEDGWICK 316.266.8324 [email protected] Mar-18 Lauren Schneider SEAWLD TX 210.523.3241 [email protected] Mar-18 Yvonne Stainback CALDWELL 903.593.0121 x 224 [email protected] Mar-18 Mike Taylor JACKSONVL 904.757.4463 x 173 [email protected] Mar-19 Leigh Ramon EVANSVILL 330.962.4578 [email protected] Mar-19 Nikki Hartman PITTS CA 412.323.7235 [email protected] Mar-19 Richard Dunn AUDUB SSC 817.789.3634 [email protected] 2. Please list any new or revised statements or guidelines that the TAG has adopted in the past year (note that new or revised Policies, Position Statements, White Papers, and Guidelines must be approved by the AZA Board of Directors). No new statements or guidelines have been drafted during this period. 3. Please attach an updated, Animal Programs Summary Table. (Target Pop. minus minus Pop. (Target Population Trend Population Cu Current Num Current % at GD Projected Participating AZA AZA Participating Date of Last Last of Date 100 years or 10 10 or years 100 Recent Space SSP Program Program SSP generations** C 5 year Target Target 5 year rrent Population Population rrent Institutions Designation Population urrent urrent Size (N) Size Plan USFWS Common name Needed (5 IUCN Pop. - (Genus species) year) ** ber of ber CITES B&T ** ) ** - Flamingo, Caribbean Feb-16 Stable 2065 53 97.8% Green SSP 2200 135 LC Phoenicopterus ruber (final) (1.017) App. II (Target Pop. minus minus Pop. (Target Population Trend Population Cu Current Num Current % at GD Projected Participating AZA AZA Participating Date of Last Last of Date 100 years or 10 10 or years 100 Recent Space SSP Program Program SSP generations** C 5 year Target Target 5 year rrent Population Population rrent Institutions Designation Population urrent urrent Size (N) Size Plan USFWS Common name Needed (5 IUCN Pop. - (Genus species) year) ** ber of ber CITES B&T ** ) ** - Flamingo, Chilean Dec-11 Stable 1927 60 99.0% Green SSP 1750 -177 NT Phoenicopterus chilensis (final) (1.011) App. II - Flamingo, Greater Mar-16 Stable 606 13 95.5% Green SSP 600 -6 LC Phoenicopterus roseus (final) (1.012) - - Flamingo, Lesser Apr-16 Stable 574 15 95.4% Green SSP 700 126 NT Phoeniconaias minor (draft) (1.010) App. II - Spoonbill, Roseate May-16 Stable 327 54 93.3% Green SSP 500 173 LC Platalea ajaja (draft) (0.996) - - Hamerkop Jan-15 Stable 76 37 73.0% Yellow SSP 100 24 LC Scopus umbretta (final) (1.023) - - Heron, Boat-billed Mar-13 124 28 - Yellow SSP 175 51 - LC Cochlearius cochlearius (MateRx) - - Ibis, Hadada Nov-15 Increasing 85 20 75.9% Yellow SSP 100 15 LC Bostrychia hagedash (final) (1.070) - - N/A; unable Ibis, Sacred May-16 Stable 153 24 to Yellow SSP 175 22 LC Threskiornis aethiopicus (final) calculate. (0.991) - - N/A; unable Ibis, Scarlet Jul-16 Stable 675 77 to Yellow SSP 600 -75 LC Eudocimus ruber (final) calculate. (1.010) App. II Endangered Ibis, Waldrapp Oct-15 Increasing 157 17 82.9% Yellow SSP 200 43 CE Geronticus eremita (final) (1.057) App. I - Spoonbill, African Jul-16 Increasing 118 16 83.0% Yellow SSP 140 22 LC Platalea alba (draft) (1.054) - (Target Pop. minus minus Pop. (Target Population Trend Population Cu Current Num Current % at GD Projected Participating AZA AZA Participating Date of Last Last of Date 100 years or 10 10 or years 100 Recent Space SSP Program Program SSP generations** C 5 year Target Target 5 year rrent Population Population rrent Institutions Designation Population urrent urrent Size (N) Size Plan USFWS Common name Needed (5 IUCN Pop. - (Genus species) year) ** ber of ber CITES B&T ** ) ** 91 - Stork, Abdim's (per ZIMS - 20 - Yellow SSP 120 29 - LC Ciconia abdimii + TRACKS) - - Stork, Marabou Sep-14 Decreasing 96 31 0% Yellow SSP 150 54 LC Leptoptilos crumenifer (final) (0.948) - - Stork, Saddle-billed Jul-16 Decreasing Ephippiorhynchus 69 26 58.2% Yellow SSP 90 21 LC (draft) (0.983) senegalensis - - Stork, White Jan-16 Increasing 91 30 73.0% Yellow SSP 100 9 LC Ciconia ciconia (final) (1.068) - - Ibis, Cape Apr-16 Stable 47 9 73.9% Red SSP 100 53 VU Geronticus calvus (final) (1.010) App. II - Stork, Milky Jul-16 Decreasing 24 3 60.1% Red SSP 50 26 EN Mycteria cinerea (draft) (0.956) App. I - Stork, Painted Nov-14 Increasing 34 6 65.4% Red SSP 50 16 NT Mycteria leucocephala (final) (1.040) - - Stork, Yellow-billed Jan-15 Stable 49 9 68.4% Red SSP 80 31 LC Mycteria ibis (final) (1.019) - - Ibis, Crested 13 - 5 - Candidate 28 15 - NT Lophotibis cristata (per ZIMS) - - Ibis, Straw-necked 54 - 11 - Candidate 80 26 - LC Threskiornis spinicollis (per ZIMS) - 10 - Stork, Storm's (per ZIMS - 5 - Candidate 26 16 - EN Ciconia stormi + TRACKS) - **Data were obtained from most recent B&T Plan, unless otherwise noted. 4. Please attach an updated Animal Program Summary Table with Roles, Goals, and Essential Action items. (see Table 4 in the TAG Handbook, p. 47-51 for more information). Please provide the action steps the TAG/SSP is taking, or intends to take, in order to achieve each identified goal, and indicate an approximate timeline for these actions. Common name Goals / Essential Actions (2015 Goals / Essential Actions Comments / Progress (Genus species) – 2016) (2016 – 2017) 1. New Program Leader to take 1. Update and publish COMPLETE. Pop. Mgmt. I. studbook (Fall 2016). 2. Contribute to AZA Sustainability 2. Update and publish B&T COMPLETE. Database. Plan (scheduled Feb 2017). 3. Develop an “Egg Trade” Flamingo, Caribbean 3. Update and publish studbook. COMPLETE. program between facilities that Phoenicopterus ruber will/will not raise offspring. 4. Prioritize transfers from larger flock facilities, 4. Publish B&T Plan. COMPLETE. supplementing facilities with smaller flock. 1. Publish studbook. Studbook 1. New Program Leader to take COMPLETE. was last published in 2013, Pop. Mgmt. I. then updated in early 2015. 2. Develop regional flamingo exchange program with AZA 2. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. institutions. Survey IRs to Database. gauge interest and obtain Flamingo, Chilean input. Phoenicopterus chilensis 3. Record methods and results of using interactive feeders at In Progress: SSP continues Brevard Zoo, comparing with to encourage holding methods from other zoos. 3. Sex unsexed individuals. institutions to determine 4. Recruit SSP Vice gender of their birds. Coordinator; set clear goals for this position as support role for SSP Coordinator. 1. Identify additional birds to 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. supplement small flock at Database. PHOENIX. 2. Work with institutions that have flocks which previously 2. Establish one new flock at AZA bred (but which are not COMPLETE. institution. currently breeding), Flamingo, Greater investigating options to “restart” Phoenicopterus roseus flocks. In progress; B&T Plans have moved some 3. Identify additional AZA 3. Investigate moving birds around individuals, but this species holding institution(s) that may to maximize breeding. is not (yet) producing at the be ready to receive birds by same rate as some other 2018. flamingo species. 1. One AZA institution is in the process of importing female 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. Lesser Flamingos; update the Database. studbook after import of new flamingos. 2. Follow up on the 2. Put all potential founders and recommendations outlined in Flamingo, Lesser existing breeding pairs in breeding In progress. the B&T Plan, ensuring that Phoeniconaias minor situations. imported birds are paired ASAP. In progress; some “best 3. Less than 8% of current practices” have been 3. Complete next draft of population reproducing; focus on presented at AZA Mid-year, Flamingo ACM (by end of reproduction to increase others will be further refined 2017). population. as Flamingo ACM develops. 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. 1. Publish updated studbook. Database. 2. Prepare for export of 20-30 birds to EAZA (2018/19), 2. Update and publish studbook. COMPLETE. moving over-rep’d birds out of SSP population. Spoonbill, Roseate 3. Complete first draft of Platalea ajaja Spoonbill/Ibis ACM (by end of 2017). In Progress: B&T Plan in 4. Collaboratively with other 3. Publish B&T Plan. draft form (May 2016). SSP PL’s, conduct survey focusing on wading bird parents that feed foreign objects to chicks. 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability 1. Recruit Education Advisor COMPLETE. Database. and draft education plan. 2. Contact EAZA program Incomplete; this goal was 2. Improve breeding and survival leader and discuss transfer of challenging due to lack of of neonates. individuals between US and Hamerkop clear metrics. Europe. Scopus umbretta 3. In the last few years, SSP recruited 3 new institutions, but 3.
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