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. (TargetPop. minus Population Trend Cu CurrentNum ProjectedGD at % ParticipatingAZA Dateof Last 100years or10 Recent Space SSP Program generations** C 5 year5Target rrentPopulation Institutions Designation Population urrent Size(N)
Plan USFWS
Common name Needed (5 IUCN Pop. -
ber of CITES B&T **
)
**
- Flamingo, Caribbean Feb-16 Stable 2065 53 97.8% Green SSP 2200 135 LC Phoenicopterus ruber (final) (1.017) App. II (TargetPop. minus
Population Trend
Cu
CurrentNum ProjectedGD at %
ParticipatingAZA
Dateof Last
100years or10 Recent
Space
SSP Program
generations** C
5 year5Target
rrentPopulation
Institutions
Designation
Population
urrent
Size(N)
Plan USFWS
Common name Needed (5 IUCN
Pop.
-
(Genus species) year)
**
ber of 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) -
(TargetPop. minus
Population Trend
Cu
CurrentNum ProjectedGD at %
ParticipatingAZA
Dateof Last
100years or10 Recent
Space
SSP Program
generations** C
5 year5Target
rrentPopulation
Institutions
Designation
Population
urrent
Size(N)
Plan USFWS
Common name Needed (5 IUCN
Pop.
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(Genus species) year)
**
ber of CITES
B&T
**
)
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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. Recruit more founders through Incomplete; see 2016/17 also lost 2 institutions; in this imports. Goal #2. period, SSP will recruit 2 new holding institutions. Incomplete; PL must enroll 1. New Program Leader to take 1. New Program Leader to take in the Nov 2016 course. See Pop. Mgmt. I. Pop. Mgmt. I (by 31 Dec 2016). 2016/17 Goal #1. Incomplete; studbook was 2. Update and publish studbook 2. Update and publish last published Jan 2011. by Nov 2015. studbook ASAP. See 2016/17 goal #2. 3. Utilize the same model in place for other large productive Heron, Boat-billed wading bird populations: large single sex reservoirs for non- Cochlearius cochlearius breeding herons, smaller, more manageable breeding flocks at 3. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. facilities that can accurately Database. record pedigree. This approach requires good communication with institutions; PL should plan to discuss with IR’s well in advance of B&T planning meeting. 1. Recruit 2 additional AZA 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. holding institutions, willing to Database. house single-sex flocks. In progress; one new 2. Lay groundwork for one unrepresented bird was additional exchange of birds 2. Diversify genetics; need to imported in 2016 from with EAZA (ideally, 204 import to improve genetics. EAZA. SSP will continue to individuals) in order to further seek additional unrelated diversify genetics. Ibis, Hadada stock. Bostrychia hagedash In progress; a handful of AZA institutions have successfully hand-reared 3. Collaboratively with other this species recently. SSP PL’s, conduct survey 3. Refine hand rearing techniques However, as the population focusing on wading bird (difficult species). has grown, we will rely on parents that feed foreign parent-rearing in the future, objects to chicks. de-emphasizing hand- rearing.
1. Follow up on the 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. recommendations outlined in Database. the B&T Plan. 2. New Program Leader to take 2. Recruit 2 additional AZA COMPLETE. Pop. Mgmt. I. holding institutions. 3. Complete first draft of Ibis, Sacred 3. Update and publish studbook. COMPLETE. Spoonbill/Ibis ACM (by end of Threskiornis aethiopicus 2017). 4. Publish B&T Plan. COMPLETE. 4. Collaboratively with other In Progress: SSP continues SSP PL’s, conduct survey 5. Sex birds. Identify parents or to encourage holding focusing on wading bird move to colonial model. institutions to determine parents that feed foreign gender of their birds. objects to chicks. 1. Complete entry of MULT 1. New Program Leader to take parentage sets into Studbook, COMPLETE. Pop. Mgmt. I. allowing for more accurate future genetic analysis. 2. Update and publish studbook 2. Recruit 4 more AZA holding COMPLETE. by Nov 2015. institutions for flexibility. Ibis, Scarlet 3. Collaboratively with other Eudocimus ruber SSP PL’s, conduct survey 3. Publish B&T Plan. COMPLETE. focusing on wading bird parents that feed foreign objects to chicks. 4. Complete first draft of 4. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. Spoonbill/Ibis ACM (by end of Database. 2017). Incomplete; this SSP’s 1. Re-survey holders to determine previous Veterinary Advisor 1. Recruit Veterinary Advisor; status of ulcerative dermatitis has not been discuss options to revisit study. communicative. See ulcerative dermatitis surveys. 2016/17 Goal #1. In progress; SSP’s most recent B&T Plan was the most aggressive ever Ibis, Waldrapp 2. Consolidate small groups to at published. Consolidation of 2. Recruit 2 more AZA holding Geronticus eremita least 8 individuals. birds into large single-sex institutions. flocks, as well as genetically compatible breeding flocks, is ongoing. 3. Collaboratively with other SSP PL’s, conduct survey 3. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. focusing on wading bird Database. parents that feed foreign objects to chicks. 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability 1. Recruit 2 more AZA holding COMPLETE. Database. institutions. 2. Collaboratively with other SSP PL’s, conduct survey 2. Manage breeding, recruit Spoonbill, African In progress. focusing on wading bird founders. Platalea alba parents that feed foreign objects to chicks. 3. Complete first draft of 3. Encourage breeding in more In progress. Spoonbill/Ibis ACM (by end of zoos. 2017).
1. Reconnect with non-AZA holders, following up on 1. New Program Leader to take COMPLETE. (potentially valuable) birds Pop. Mgmt. I. currently listed as LTF in the Stdubook. 2. Update and publish studbook 2. Recruit 1 more AZA holding Stork, Abdim's COMPLETE. by Nov 2015. institution. Ciconia abdimii In progress; planning 3. Population has not been meeting has occurred, and analyzed since 2009; publish B&T 3. Follow up on the draft should be forwarded to Plan. recommendations outlined in IR’s for review Aug 2016. the B&T Plan. 4. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. Database. 1. Update studbook, publish 1. Update and publish studbook. COMPLETE. new B&T recommendations by Oct 2016. 2. Recruit 2 new institutions willing to house pre-breeding 2. Publish B&T Plan. COMPLETE. age birds to free space in Stork, Marabou prime breeding institutions. Leptoptilos crumenifer 3. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. Database. 3. Develop survey to 4. Develop survey to investigate In progress; preliminary data investigate and categorize and categorize causes of deaths; were presented at AZA Mid- causes of deaths, by Dec continue research into mitigation year Meeting. See 2016/17 2017. of male-on-female aggression. Goal #3. 1. Foster relationships with EAZA for future exchanges to 1. New Program Leader to take COMPLETE. help genetic diversity; establish Pop. Mgmt. I. list of 8+ EAZA institutional contacts. In progress; considering a 2. Move flighted males to paired survey to evaluate poor 2. Move flighted males into situations. Pair additional pinioned Stork, Saddle-billed hatches. Recommending paired situations, and pair birds. Investigate poor hatches, 2016/17 bird transfers to additional pinioned birds. Ephippiorhynchus embryo deaths. senegalensis address pairings. 3. Identify 2 new institutions 3. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. able to accommodate large Database. flighted birds. 4. Working collaboratively with 4. Assist with Giant Stork ACM In progress; second draft Vice Coordinator, utilize development. completed 2014. surveys to investigate poor hatches, embryo deaths. 1. Survey institutions holding 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. multiple pairs to identify “best Database. practices.” COMPLETE; a handful of 2. Recruit 2 more AZA holding 2. Establish several flocks of 3+ Stork, White AZA institutions now house institutions, each able to pairs. Ciconia ciconia this species in flocks. accommodate 1-2 pairs. 3. Recruit SSP Vice 3. Update the studbook after Coordinator; set clear goals for COMPLETE. import of new storks. this position as support role for SSP Coordinator.
1. Update international 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability studbook, publish (with COMPLETE. Database. updated regional MateRx’s) by Dec 2016. In progress; PL visited National Zoo (PRETORIA) 2. Foster relationships with in Jul 2016, met with PAAZA EAZA, PAAZA for future 2. Diversify genetics; investigate Ibis, Cape studbook keeper as exchanges to help genetic feasibility of exchange w/JAZA, Geronticus calvus preliminary step. Disease diversity; establish list of 8+ EAZA, or PAAZA. issues may make transfers international institutional between SA, USA contacts. challenging. 3. Recruit SSP Vice 3. Elevate to international Coordinator; set clear goals for studbook to facilitate inter-regional COMPLETE. this position as support role for cooperation. SSP Coordinator. 1. Follow up on the recommendations outlined in 1. New Program Leader to take COMPLETE. the B&T Plan, ensuring that Pop. Mgmt. I. SSP remains in contact with prospective new institutions. 2. Foster relationships with In progress; four potential 2. Identify additional spaces and EAZA for future exchanges to new institutions have been breed. Investigate importing help genetic diversity; establish identified, incorporated into individuals from EAZA list of 8+ EAZA institutional B&T Plan. Stork, Milky contacts. Mycteria cinerea 3. Successfully breed at more institutions to increase zoo population numbers; working collaboratively with other PL’s, 3. Contribute to AZA Sustainability utilize surveys to identify “best COMPLETE. Database. practices.” 4. Recruit SSP Vice Coordinator; set clear goals for this position as support role for SSP Coordinator. 1. Recruit 2 more AZA 1. Contribute to AZA Sustainability holding/breeding institutions, COMPLETE. Database. encouraging each holder to house a flock of 3.3 or more. 2. Successfully breed at more institutions to increase zoo Stork, Painted 2. Promote in region and increase Need an update on population numbers; working Mycteria leucocephala space institutions to contact collaboratively with other PL’s, utilize surveys to identify “best practices.” 3. Update and publish studbook. 3. Recruit SSP Vice In progress; will publish by Coordinator; set clear goals for 4. Publish B&T Plan. Dec 2016. this position as support role for SSP Coordinator. 1. Recruit 2 more AZA 1. Update and publish studbook. COMPLETE. holding/breeding institutions. 2. Successfully breed at more institutions to increase zoo population numbers; working 2. Publish B&T Plan. COMPLETE. collaboratively with other PL’s, utilize surveys to identify “best practices.” Stork, Yellow-billed 3. Foster relationships with Mycteria ibis EAZA for future exchanges to 3. Contribute to AZA Sustainability COMPLETE. help genetic diversity; establish Database. list of 8+ EAZA institutional contacts. 4. Recruit SSP Vice In progress; see 2016/17 Coordinator; set clear goals for 4. Identify SSP Vice Coordinator. Goal #4. this position as support role for SSP Coordinator. 1. Create and publish studbook, progressing from Candidate Program to Red SSP upon publication. 2. Recruit two new breeding Ibis, Crested institutions. N/A; new Candidate program for 2016/17. Lophotibis cristata 3. Add new founders, via importation (likely from EAZA, but potentially from Madagascar, in collaboration with conservation partners there). 1. Create and publish studbook, progressing from Candidate Program to Yellow SSP upon publication. Ibis, Straw-necked 2. New Program Leader to take N/A; new Candidate program for 2016/17. Threskiornis spinicollis Pop. Mgmt. I. 3. Recruit two new institutions, following up on previous (informal) interim breeding recommendations. 1. Create and publish studbook, progressing from Candidate Program to Red SSP upon publication. 2. Investigate opportunities for possible future import, working collaboratively with SD-WAP Stork, Storm's N/A; new Candidate program for 2016/17. (M. Mace). Ciconia stormi 3. Once studbook is complete, genetics are analyzed, and information is collected re: feasibility of import, solicit feedback from Steering Committee on long-term goals for this population.
5. Please list all field conservation and/or research projects that have been supported by the TAG in the past year and provide a brief summary (one paragraph) and status for each.
No specific field conservation or research projects have been supported or endorsed by the TAG during this period.