2016 ANNUAL REPORT Message from the Chairman

Board Chair Larry Selzer

Dear ABC Friends and Supporters:

Birding was among my earliest windows into the natural world. Ten years old, under-dressed for a Christmas count in Connecticut, desperately trying to hold steady a pair of 10x50 Tasco binoculars that easily weighed as much as I did. But I was hooked, and I have spent my entire working career in conservation.

Very few things have brought me as much joy and satisfaction as becoming part of the American Bird Conservancy family. I was introduced to George and Rita almost 20 years ago by a shared board member, KiKu Hanes. Somehow she knew we were kindred spirits, willing to try anything to conserve that which we loved the most.

Years later I had the honor of serving on the board of ABC. I learned firsthand about the incredible staff, the dedicated members, and the amazing partners that work with ABC every day to protect all across the Americas. I felt the rush that came from a new reserve being established, a new legal or legislative victory finally coming to fruition, or a new program being launched. The results were incredible.

Now, I am humbled to serve the organization again, this time as Chair of the Board. As George and Rita end their run as creators and leaders of this incredible organization, with a legacy unmatched anywhere in conservation, I look forward with the same nervous energy I had when I was first invited to join the board. There is so much that needs to be done, and no time to waste. But with the great team we have—board, staff, members, donors, partners—we will build on what George and Rita have achieved.

We will bring back the birds. The direction is clear, the energy abundant, and the passion undiminished. Thank you all for all you have done for birds, and all that I know we will do together in the months and years ahead.

With excitement for the future,

Larry Selzer Board Chair, ABC

American Bird Conservancy is dedicated to conserving birds and their habitats throughout the Americas. With an emphasis on achieving results and working in partnership, we take on the greatest problems facing birds today, innovating and building on rapid advancements in science to halt extinctions, protect habitats, eliminate threats, and build capacity for bird conservation. abcbirds.org Message from the President

ABC President George Fenwick

Dear ABC Family:

One day last September, my wife, Rita, Vice President for Development and I sat down to discuss our future. After 23 years with ABC, we realized that ABC could grow, prosper, and benefit from new ideas, and that we were ready for a change. Thus, our time with ABC ends very soon. ABC is prepared, and we expect a seamless transition; continued, unmatched conservation results; and cost-effective programs.

We want to thank Warren Cooke for his steady hand at the helm as Chair of ABC in recent years. ABC truly thrived under his leadership. Larry Selzer has succeeded Warren and we expect no less from him. Larry’s knowledge, intelligence, and humor will be valuable assets in guiding ABC through transition and onward to many great, new things for bird conservation.

ABC’s extraordinary success cannot be fully understood without recognizing the passion and concern of ABC’s board and of its members throughout our history. What a wonderful cohort of dedicated and helpful individuals they have been. Thank you all. And, of course, ABC’s staff remains the best in the business. We feel fortunate to have shared this time with them.

Finally, Rita and I thank all of ABC’s members and friends who have sustained and bolstered our work through the (almost) quarter century of conservation. I wish I had enough space to name names here. Your generosity and loyalty through the years have made all the difference. Thank you, and we hope our paths can cross again, down some marshy trail looking for a furtive, marvelous bird.

With a fond farewell,

George Fenwick President, ABC

Halt Extinctions of the rarest species

Conserve Habitats of WatchList species We will bring back the birds. Eliminate Threats for all birds The direction is clear, the energy abundant, and the Build Capacity passion undiminished. ABC Conservation Framework HALTING EXTINCTIONS

The rarest birds require focused and immediate action, and that’s what ABC and partners provided in more than 60 projects across ten countries in 2016. Creating and supporting management of reserves at carefully selected sites, we help to reverse species’ spiral toward extinction. This work can take years, but breakthroughs do occur: the doubling of the population of Grey-breasted Parakeets in northeast Brazil, thanks to the successful nest-box program managed by our partner Aquasis, is one such breakthrough.

AZE's Global Reach

Halting extinctions is one of ABC’s specialties ABC is also helping governments include protection and is the pinnacle of our strategic conservation of AZE sites in their National Biodiversity Strategic framework. An important element of our approach Action Plans and advises on how to allocate funds is the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE), a joint to implement them. initiative of more than 90 biodiversity conservation organizations from around the world. Groups from These plans are being developed by the 196 India and Indonesia to Mauritius and Madagascar— countries that have signed and ratified the all coming together over a shared concern for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)—a global future of our planet’s biodiversity and a desire to agreement to achieve targeted biodiversity goals. help in this vital global endeavor. The Alliance for By prioritizing conservation dollars for AZE sites, countries can meet their ABC was a founder of AZE and Zero Extinction is continues to chair the Alliance, obligations as parties to the Convention. which so far has identified 587 sites a joint initiative of To date, 19 countries have included AZE in their national plans and we anticipate worldwide that must be effectively over 90 biodiversity protected to prevent the extinction more in the near future. of 920 of the world’s most conservation Forming national AZE alliances and threatened species from a variety of organizations around addressing threats at the site level are taxonomic groups, including birds additional critical steps for ensuring the and mammals. the world. survival of the Grey-breasted Parakeet, The identification of sites—the last remaining Araripe Manakin, Long-whiskered Owlet, and many refuges for one or more Endangered or Critically more AZE birds and other species. —is just the beginning. The When does the work end? For ABC, it's when work that must ensue, if AZE is to be effective in we have well-managed reserves throughout the halting extinctions, is to draw global attention and Americas that maintain or increase populations of support to these areas. all target bird species and that are financially self- Through the Alliance, ABC engages large sufficient. And we are well on our way. development banks and lending institutions to Currently supporting ABC's global work on AZE is the factor AZE species and sites into project decision- Global Environment Facility–we are grateful to our making to preserve the most rare and endangered partners on this grant: United Nations Environment species on the planet. Programme and BirdLife International.

2 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Grey-breasted Parakeet chicks in nest box by Fabio Nunes

Bay-breasted Cuckoo by Cesar Abrill Building a nest box by Aquasis David Borré, of ProNatura Noreste (PNE) at the Loma del Gorrión Reserve. ABC supports PNE in the managment of this reserve, an AZE site for Worthen's Sparrow. Photo by Aditi Desai, 2017.

“I have had the chance to work with ABC through the partnership that CONABIO maintains with them for the identification of new candidate Alliance for Zero Extinction species and

sites in Mexico. ABC is a great organization to work with, always helpful, knowledgeable, and available. Our partnership has been very successful so far, and undoubtedly this is, at least in part, due to ABC’s genuine interest in it.”

— Dr. Esther Quintero National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) Government of Mexico

4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2016 AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY HALTING EXTINCTIONS: Highlights

• Brazil’s stunning Araripe Manakin numbers fewer Buenaventura Reserve, thanks to a land purchase than 800 individuals and lacks sufficient breeding by ABC, our Ecuadorian partner Fundación sites, so the 2016 acquisition of 170 acres Jocotoco, and World Land Trust. The cavity- of habitat is a big step forward. The property nesting parakeet was discovered in 1980 and is connects with the Oasis Araripe Reserve— limited to the Andes of southwest Ecuador, where managed by our partner Aquasis—to the Araripe only a few hundred birds are known to exist. National Forest and doubles the land under protection for the species. • A first-of-its-kind conservation effort continued in Hawai’i in 2016, when eight Newell's Shearwater • Over 53,000 acres of land in northern Peru chicks were translocated to Kilauea Point are under consideration for national Private National Refuge. The shearwaters, along Conservation Area status, thanks to our partner with ten Hawaiian Petrel chicks translocated ECOAN, local communities, and support from the prior year, are protected by a predator-proof ABC. This step brings us closer to realizing our fence, eliminating a major threat to the seabirds’ ambitious plan to link nine existing protected survival. Representing the only fully protected areas in one contiguous, 848,241-acre landscape colony of federally listed seabirds in the Hawaiian that includes the headwaters of the Amazon River Islands, the project was made possible by the and habitat for an array of species—including Kauai Endangered Seabird Recovery Project, Pacific the Long-whiskered Owlet and Ochre-fronted Rim Conservation, the Hawai’i Department of Antpitta, Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) species Land and Natural Resources' Division of Forestry found nowhere else. and Wildlife, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and ABC, along with significant funding from the • The rare El Oro Parakeet gained 233 more acres National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. of protected cloud-forest habitat within the Meet ABC Staff:

The fascination with nature that fuels Amy Upgren’s career began with a childhood spent exploring the woods, streams, and ponds near her home in New England. Her commitment to preventing extinction in particular dates back to a grade school field trip that she remembers clearly: “I saw a stuffed replica of a dodo bird at the Yale Peabody Museum, and was shocked to learn that a species had gone extinct in recent times,” Amy says.

Today, Amy is ABC’s Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) Program Officer. She works regularly with conservationists throughout the Americas to build strong partnerships with them and their governments. For example, last year, Amy worked with Mexico’s CONABIO, the institution in charge of compiling the country's biodiversity data, to update the national list of AZE species and sites. “I love my job,” she says. “Working toward zero extinctions is an exciting and inspiring goal.” Photo by Wendy Willis, 2016

5 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 CONSERVING HABITATS

Whether it’s Wood Thrushes or wood-warblers, fewer migratory birds are seen each year. To reverse this trend, ABC created our BirdScapes approach in 2016, bringing a big vision, long-term commitment, and conservation action to habitats across the full life-cycle of target birds. To start, ABC and partners have identified more than 50 BirdScapes that provide breeding, wintering, and stopover habitat for priority species—places where we continue to ramp up and connect our conservation results throughout the hemisphere.

BirdScapes for Golden-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warblers weigh the equivalent of Honduras, and —places where we are nine pennies, and yet these migratory miracles find preparing to substantially scale up ongoing habitat their way each spring over thousands of miles from conservation work with local partners. For example, Central America to the Appalachian Mountains or working with FUNDAECO in Guatemala, we’re the Great Lakes. Too often these days, though, the developing bird-friendly economic alternatives young, diverse forests they need for breeding are to cattle ranching and large-scale, unsustainable missing from the landscape—a prime cause of the agriculture. With hardwood tree plantations species’ overall population decline of 66 percent and bird-friendly crops such as black pepper and over the past 50 years. cardamom, we aim to help local people improve their economic conditions, which can also deter We’re moving with urgency to forest clearing. reverse the bird’s decline, leading a Creating breeding process to restore forest to optimal As for places between the breeding Golden-wing habitat across several habitat is vital, but our and wintering grounds: exciting new BirdScapes. In 2016, ABC’s Great BirdScapes approach data from our partners at the Cornell Lakes team completed a two-year Lab or Ornithology and Colombian project in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and also ensures that group SELVA are showing where birds Michigan that restored more than Golden-winged congregate on migration; the Sierra 7,500 acres of forest on public and Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia private lands. This acreage adds to the Warblers find suitable is emerging as one such place. As we approximately 12,000 acres of forest habitat when they incorporate this new information into protected or restored in these areas our BirdScapes work, we’ll be able to over the last five years in the Great again head south. take action to conserve land in these Lakes. To ensure that the warblers vital places. That’s what BirdScapes are breeding successfully in the restored habitat, are about: delivering on-the-ground habitat 82 landowner properties are being monitored for conservation where birds need it most. Golden-winged Warblers through projects with Indiana University of Pennsylvania. We thank our many partners for their support of our Great Lakes forest restoration work, including the State Creating breeding habitat is vital, but our of Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund, National Fish BirdScapes approach also ensures that Golden- and Wildlife Foundation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service winged Warblers find suitable habitat when they and its refuges; USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation again head south. We have identified BirdScapes Service (Regional Conservation Partnership Program) that support wintering Golden-wings in Guatemala, and Chippewa National Forest.

6 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Golden-wingedAMERICAN BIRDWarbler CONSERVANCY by Lynda Goff

7 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Cerulean Warbler by Frode Jacobsen

“The Pennsylvania Natural Resources Conservation Service has been proud to partner with ABC through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program on the Cerulean Warbler Appalachian Forestland Enhancement Project. Through this partnership we are assisting non- industrial private forestland owners and operators to improve forest habitat on approximately 7,000 acres in Pennsylvania in order to benefit Cerulean Warblers.”

— Molly Hippensteel USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

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CONSERVING HABITATS: Highlights

• In Oregon, ABC helped Columbia Land Trust • ABC worked at 27 sites in Texas, Louisiana, secure the final 115 acres of a key 418-acre Alabama, and Florida to protect and manage wildlife corridor that supports work in ponderosa almost 5,000 acres of critical breeding habitat pine forests and protects a stronghold population for our four priority species on the Gulf Coast: of Lewis's Woodpecker, a rapidly declining species. Black Skimmer, Least Tern, and Snowy and We also petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Wilson’s Plovers. Preliminary results point to a Service to list the Oregon Vesper Sparrow (down successful breeding season for all four species as to just 10 percent of its 1968 population) under well as Common Nighthawk. Looking ahead, we the Endangered Species Act, as well as to provide will be expanding our work in 2017 to include support for conservation in prairie-oak habitats for Piping Plover and Red Knot, thanks to a U.S. Fish the threatened Streaked Horned Lark. and Wildlife Service Coastal Program grant.

• In the rugged forests of the Klamath Mountains • With World Land Trust and our Guatemalan in southwestern Oregon, ABC launched a project partner FUNDAECO, ABC helped to secure a to enhance forest management for birds on 1,672-acre parcel of threatened Caribbean private lands, partnering with the Sustainable rainforest—the single-largest remnant of lowland Forestry Initiative (SFI), SFI Project Participants tropical rainforest remaining in Caribbean including Weyerhaeuser and Hancock Timber Guatemala. The resulting Tapon Creek Nature Resources Group, Klamath Bird Observatory, Reserve connects two existing protected areas and the National Council on Air and Stream totaling nearly 20,000 acres and provides vital Improvement. More than 15 bird species of special winter habitat for migratory birds such as concern, including the Rufous , will Kentucky Warbler and Wood Thrush. benefit. Meet ABC Staff:

“In the summer, it was not uncommon for me to run outdoors after breakfast and not return home until dark,” says Shawn Graff, recollecting his childhood spent roaming the woods, catching frogs, and climbing trees. That early love of nature and wild things remained with him as an avocation, until Wisconsin’s Ozaukee Washington Land Trust (OWLT) asked him if he would serve as their executive director. “I took them up on their offer and never looked back.”

After 13 years with OWLT, Shawn brought his skills to ABC in 2016. As Vice President, Great Lakes Region, Shawn works with partners to identify and restore essential habitat, including the site in Wisconsin he visited during his first week with ABC. — Molly Hippensteel “Within minutes we heard bee buzz-buzz and then USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) a male Golden-winged Warbler appeared on a tree a few feet from us. That’s why we do this work.” Photo courtesy of Shawn Graff

9 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 ELIMINATING THREATS

“Billions” is an almost unimaginable number, yet it represents the number of birds that die unnecessarily each year in the United States due to a handful of human-caused threats. ABC works urgently to find and implement solutions to these hazards, including collisions with windows and wind turbines; free-roaming domestic cats; and use of deadly pesticides. Year after year, we make strides to reduce the death toll, educating people about solutions, influencing policy, and, when all else fails, taking legal action.

Standing Up for Piping Plovers

With sandy beaches and summertime crowds, Our argument: continued support of the cats’ Jones Beach State Park looks like many other presence in proximity to the plovers creates the parks along New York’s coastline. But two things, likelihood of harm to the birds. Further, it’s a at least, set it apart. It’s home to breeding Piping violation of the Endangered Species Act. Plovers, a species listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. And We take on this challenging work it’s home to two shanty-towns of because domestic cats are now the feral cats subsisting in “Trap, Neuter, Together, free-roaming greatest direct human-caused threat to birds. Feral cats number 30 to 80 Release” (TNR) colonies within the and feral cats kill an park’s borders—and within roaming million in the United States alone, not distance of those breeding birds. average of 2.4 billion including “owned” cats. birds every year in the At ABC, many of us love cats as pets. Together, free-roaming and feral cats But when it comes to endangered United States. kill an average of 2.4 billion birds species like the Piping Plover, we’re every year in the United States. And fiercely protective. After 30 years of now, the abandonment of cats into intensive conservation effort, the Piping Plover TNR colonies near or on public lands has become population on the Atlantic Coast has slowly socially acceptable and even sanctioned in some climbed from just 790 pairs in the 1980s to 1,850 cities. pairs today. Every one of those pairs and their Fortunately, it now appears that the Piping Plovers young is important to the species’ continued of Jones Beach will have their day in court, as a recovery. judge overturned a motion by the State to dismiss ABC is known as the group that will take action the case. If successful, this lawsuit will give pause on behalf of birds even when the matter is to other city officials who are thinking about controversial, and this was no exception. After the sanctioning TNR within their jurisdictions. state declined to remove the cats (citing pressure ABC is grateful to the DJ&T Foundation, Lynde Uihlein, from feral cat advocates) we sued the New York Warren and Cathy Cooke, and the Frances V.R. Seebe State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Charitable Trust for their generous support of our Cats Preservation in March 2016. Indoors Program.

10 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Piping Plover by Jack Nevitt, Shutterstock Cat with Hooded Warbler by forespath_SS

“I first discovered ABC when I founded our nonprofit cat shelter back in 2002. Concerned about the plight of both homeless outdoor cats and the environment and its wildlife, I was delighted to discover your Cats Indoors Program. Thank you for participating in such an important issue using science and facts to make rational decisions for the health and sustainability of the planet.”

— Gail Mihocko Founder, Project Cat

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ELIMINATING THREATS: Highlights

• After a thorough analysis of U.S. wind energy • The U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in facilities, ABC released a 2016 report on the Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Pilot worst proposed and existing projects from the Credit 55 on bird collision deterrence has become perspective of bird conservation. The ten selected the most frequently used of dozens of credits in projects illustrate the risks of poor siting—for the LEED Pilot Library. Introduced by a team led example, within migratory corridors and breeding by ABC in 2011, the credit provides an incentive areas of endangered species—and the failure of for using bird-friendly design strategies. In the federal government’s voluntary guidelines addition, in the last 12 months more than 400 to protect American birds from large-scale wind architects and other design professionals have development. completed ABC’s class for LEED and American Institute of Architects continuing education credit. • We worked with partners to introduce legislation in Hawai’i that would prohibit the feeding of feral • Thanks to advocacy efforts by ABC and others, the cats in the state known as the “bird extinction U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) called on capital of the world,” due to the profusion of its field offices tocap, close, remove, or screen non-native species such as cats. We also helped vertical pipes on BLM-managed lands. Open partners in Virginia, New York, Illinois, and pipes, such as those used to mark mining claims, Delaware defeat legislation supporting Trap, are death traps for hundreds of thousands of birds Neuter, Release programs, which fail to reduce annually, including Mountain Bluebird. cat populations in spite of advocates’ claims to the contrary. And we coordinated a ground- breaking summit of experts to develop a more comprehensive understanding of Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite spread by cats that causes serious disease in humans and wildlife. Meet ABC Staff: Steve Holmer, ABC’s Vice President of Policy, is accustomed to fighting the long fight. “The Federal Communications Commission just provided updated guidance to tower operators that enable them to switch to flashing lights. That took ten years of effort.” That success, following a decade of work, means Steve and others can now reach out to tower owners and work with them to reduce their costs while simultaneously reducing bird collisions.

It takes a certain kind of commitment to continually work on projects with timelines of a decade or more. For Steve, that dedication was born on a trip west in 1989. “That trip opened my eyes to the extent and intensity of development happening on public lands and national forests. I've been working to protect habitats ever since.” Photo courtesy of ABC, 2011

13 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 ABC Gets Results...

Countries that include AZE goals in their national biodiversity planning: 19

Acres protected in 14 countries in the Americas: 993,700

Trees and shrubs planted: 5,037,000

Bird species benefited in the Americas: 2,454

Joint Ventures with ABC staff: 9 ABC serves on the management boards of nine Joint Ventures in the U.S. that are pursuing an "all birds, all habitat" mission. ABC employs staff at more Joint Ventures (JVs) than any other organization, outside of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our partners in these JVs have restored, enhanced, and protected more than 500,000 acres of vital habitat.

FIELDNotes Thanks to ABC-backed expeditions, new breeding grounds of the Blue-throated Macaw have been discovered in Bolivia. This has long been a mystery—where the macaws go after they spend several months roosting at the Barba Azul Nature Reserve.

ABC supported a study in 2016 to better inform our full life- cycle conservation strategy for the Golden-winged Warbler. Geolocators were attached to 146 wintering Golden-winged Warblers in nine focal conservation areas in Central America. Twenty of the geolocators have been recovered, revealing their migratory routes.

Stay tuned to ABC's website for more results from the field! 14 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Solyx Bird-Safety Film: This external film is available in horizontal and vertical stripes. Both have proven highly effective in the field. This product may require Here'sprofessional installation.Where We Are

Effective solutions developed to address bird collisions with glass: 18 ABC continues to lead scientific research to find or develop a range of scientifically proven, effective, affordable, and aesthetically suitable solutions to birds hitting windows in homes and buildings. To date, this had led to 18 products on the market that are effective in preventing 70% or more bird collisions with glass.

Pesticide registrations blocked or restricted: 30

Responses to Action Alerts in 2016: 37,224

ABC members/supporters: 8,931 This number steadily grows each year; in 2005 ABC had 5,600 members and supporters.

Barba Azul Nature Reserve in Bolivia by Tjalle Boorsma, Armonía Blue-throated Macaw by Joe 15Tobias ANNUAL REPORT 2016 BUILDING CAPACITY

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and that’s why ABC actively strengthens our partners’ ability to deliver bird conservation results. In 2016, through our partnership with the March Conservation Fund and the Jeniam Foundation, we helped 14 Latin American groups become stronger financially, organizationally, and programmatically. We also brought together the expertise and resources needed to advance bird conservation in other ways, such as through our leadership in the Bird Conservation Alliance, Migratory Bird Joint Ventures, and Alliance for Zero Extinction.

Protecting Birds in Perpetuity Among our proudest moments are when, with American Reserve Stewardship Initiative (LARSI) ABC support, one of our Latin American partners to measurably improve the ability of nonprofit creates a globally significant reserve for a rare bird conservation organizations to protect declining species. Over time, ABC has invested more than $30 native birds and their habitats in perpetuity. million in 22 partners to help them purchase or protect bird habitats in Together with support from the ABC provides more than 14 countries—a total of almost one Jeniam Foundation, LARSI enables million acres. $400,000 each year to us to provide more than $400,000 a year to partners. Last year these funds This substantial investment is one partners to fund actions supported staff positions, fundraising of the reasons why we make it a that increase institutional initiatives and development of new priority to build the capacity of our project ideas that generated a total of partners and their resources. We capacity and financially $1,794,756 in funds for our partners. know that land purchase is really sustain reserves and bird just the first step. To prevent land What our partners really appreciate squatting or other illegal activity, conservation over the about LARSI is that ABC’s team comes manpower and infrastructure long-term. along with the funding. Trust is built is required. Often some type of over many years, and we are proud habitat restoration is also needed, to have earned the confidence of along with steady collaboration with neighboring our partners, enabling us to work together to to landowners to address land management practices overcome challenges. Virtually every ABC division, such as the use of fire that could impact the reserve. from Finance to Communications, provides some Partners must establish sustainable funding sources kind of training, expertise, materials, or contacts to to finance these long-term needs. one or more LARSI partners to guarantee that each grant is successful. Together, we ensure that birds In spite of its importance, it can be difficult to find are protected well into the future. financial backing for capacity building and land stewardship, especially for Latin American partners We’re grateful to the organizations who have provided with few funding sources in their own countries. funding for organizational capacity building: Jeniam But in the fall of 2015, March Conservation Fund Foundation, March Conservation Fund, blue moon took the extraordinary step of launching, with fund, and Beneficia Foundation. ABC, an annual grant program called the Latin

16 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 ABC staff (left, VP of International Dan Lebbin and International Program Officer Wendy Willis) visiting partner Fundación Jocotoco and affiliate Jocotours (Rocío Merino, center; Eliana Montenegro; Michelle Hidrobo; and Paola Villalba) in Ecuador, 2016. Photo courtesy of Fundación17 ANNUAL Jocotoco. REPORT 2016 Cattle at Barba Azul Nature Reserve. Photo by Shoaib Tareen.

“In the name of Armonía, I want to thank ABC for continuing to fund us through the LARSI program. Our project is part of a comprehensive plan that combines birdwatching tourism, responsible cattle ranching and the establishment of a biological station to make our reserve self-sustaining. Most of the successes we made through the last years in the Barba Azul Nature Reserve were achieved thanks to your support."

— Rodrigo W. Soria Auza Executive Director, Asociación Armonía

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BUILDING CAPACITY: Highlights

• ABC and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology meeting with the Critical Ecosystem Partnership joined forces to launch “Science to Action,” Fund, Armonía received a generous grant for a partnership aimed at reversing decades of Polylepis reforestation and ECOAN for protected population declines for migratory birds in the area management and ecotourism development Americas. Bringing together the Cornell Lab's in northern Peru to benefit the Long-whiskered cutting-edge science and ABC's on-the-ground Owlet, Marvelous Spatuletail, and many other approach to bird conservation, this joint effort species. represents new hope for hundreds of declining species that journey each spring and fall between • We supported infrastructure improvements their breeding grounds in North America and at many of the reserves in our network in 2016, wintering grounds in Latin America and the including renovating the headquarters at the Oasis Caribbean. Together, the Science to Action Araripe Reserve in Brazil, adding new rooms and partnership will leverage data and resources from a dining facility to the Huembo Reserve in Peru, the Cornell Lab to refine and prioritize ABC's constructing a canopy tower and new lodging at conservation strategies, including ABC BirdScapes; Lomas del Sierpe and Cerro Osa Reserves in Costa improve conservation of migratory stopover sites; Rica, and creating a new hummingbird attraction use citizen science such as eBird to monitor and at Buenaventura Reserve in Ecuador. evaluate the success of ABC projects; and more.

• In ongoing efforts to support and strengthen our partners, ABC hosted two Latin American partners—ECOAN from Peru and Asociación Armonía from Bolivia—for a workshop on fundraising and management. As a result of a

Meet ABC Staff:

Growing up in rural New Jersey, Aditi Desai, ABC’s Director of Multimedia, spent her summers picking wild blackberries and flowers. A proud member of her school’s Bug Club, she was inspired by the nature in her backyard, and releasing her pet worm back into the wild was her first conservation action.

It wasn’t until she lived in India and watched the documentary "Shores of Silence" that she decided to combine her love of nature with storytelling. Hearing about the film’s impact on public policy from the director forever changed the way she viewed media. “I knew then that storytelling could be a tool for social change,” she says. Today, she works toward that change every day by crafting stories that raise awareness about bird conservation issues and promoting the work of staff and partners. See our Youtube channel to check out Aditi’s latest work! Photo courtesy of Aditi Desai

19 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 2016 Falcon Club and Project Supporters

We are honored to acknowledge the individuals, foundations, businesses, and others who have supported ABC’s work. While space constraints prevent us from listing all of our donors, we are sincerely grateful for each member and every gift. We would also like to thank those who gave anonymously through the United Way or Combined Federal Campaign (CFC #12048). Aplomado Falcon by Alan Wilson

The Falcon Club is our pivotal group of members who donate unrestricted gifts of $1,000 or more each year. Members of this group (denoted in purple) collectively form a cornerstone in the success of all of our bird conservation programs and projects.

$500,000+ $25,000+ (Peregrine Falcon) $5,000+ (Forest-falcon)

The Estate of Jane Kruysman Anonymous (7) Laurel Foundation John and Alexander Contreras Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society National Fish and Wildlife Patricia Bauman and John The Marshall-Reynolds American Forests Hancock Timber Resource The P. Twenty One Fund Foundation Landrum-Bryant Foundation Atherton Family Foundation Group Robert and Madeline The Else Perkins-Martin Trust Kathy Bollhoefer The McNair Foundation Black Swamp Bird Dale Henderson Pendergrass The Ceres Trust Leo Model Foundation Observatory The Elizabeth Wakeman Bayard Rea $100,000+ Sarah K. de Coizart Article Jeff Peters Bart Brown Henderson Charitable The Reissing Family TENTH Perpetual Anonymous (1) Bishop and Lynn Sheehan Jim and Yuko Brumm Foundation The Grace Jones Richardson Charitable Trust BirdLife International Joanna Sturm Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Robert Henderson Trust George and Rita Fenwick Bobolink Foundation Sustainable Forestry Foundation Steven and Christine Jim and Patty Rouse Charitable Gulf Coast Bird Observa- David and Patricia Davidson Initiative Patience and Tom Hightower Foundation tory—Tropical Forest Dick and Nancy Eales Turner Foundation Chamberlin Robert and Kathleen Hindle The Rusinow Family Charitable Forever Fund Jonathan Franzen Lucy Waletzky Stephen Charles Dale Holmer Foundation Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. Leon Levy Foundation Weeden Foundation Arthur Cody Island Conservation Frances V.R. Seebe Trust and Helen C. Kleberg March Conservation Fund The Mohamed bin Zayed The Margaret and Andrew Ivorybill Foundation Sharon Small Foundation New Venture Fund Species Conservation Covell Foundation Keitha Kinne John Spurlino Land Trust of Santa Cruz David and Lucile Packard Fund Donnie and Jackie Dann Lannan Foundation Steve and Britt Thal County Foundation Owen Deutsch Deborah and Roger Lebbin Lawrence Thompson Wallace Genetic Foundation $10,000+ (Aplomado Falcon) Christina Duthie Paul and Angela Lewis Jim and Cathy Tilling Environment Now The Mars Foundation Alan Weeden The Robert W. Wilson Anonymous (6) Paul King Stef and Tess Williams Charitable Trust 3M Warren and Barry King Mari Epstein Martin Foundation Wolf Creek Charitable Amos Butler Audubon John C. Kish Foundation Joan M. Felder Walter and Pam Matia Constance and Jeff Woodman Foundation Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Cathy and George Ledec Jennifer Gaden George W. Merck Fund Chris Wright Kathy Burger and Glen William Leighty Lois Gebhardt of the New Hampshire $50,000+ Gerada Franklin O. Loveland Trust Robert Giles and Ana Charitable Foundation (Gyrfalcon) C.A.N. Foundation Gordon and Betty Moore John and Bayard Cobb Heidi Nitze Anonymous (3) The Cooke Foundation Overhills Foundation Colcom Foundation Cornell Douglas Foundation The RJM Foundation Warren and Cathy Cooke Disney Conservation Fund Barbara Rizzo DJ & T Foundation Cinnamon Dornsife Steven and Barbara The Felburn Foundation Rockefeller The Dorrance Family Foundation The Moses Feldman Family Bruce Stevenson Barbara Fried Foundation Andrew Velthaus David Harrison and Joyce Millen Martha Flanders David Walsh IUCN National Committee of The Sharon and Adrian Forsyth Eugene and Joanne Wilhelm Netherlands Georgia-Pacific Corporation Charlotte Wright Jeniam Foundation Greenfield/Hartline Habitat Conservation Fund The Edward K. Love $5,000+ Conservation Foundation Kathryn Hale Jim and Ann Hancock The Estate of R. James Macaleer (Forest-falcon) Colin and Sarah Hartman Anonymous (2) The John D. and Catherine T. Carolyn Hendricks Agua Fund of the MacArthur Foundation Joan Hero Shoaib Tareen and Cathy Filgas Diane Pierce Huxtable Community Foundation of Lynde Uihlein Patsy and Tom Inglet Collier County Lynn and Stuart White International Community The American Cetacean Foundation Society and Cheeseman Tom and Carlyn Jervis Ecology Safaris Peregrine Falcon by Don Mannoser

20 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 $1,000+ (Kestrel)

Anonymous (17) Edward T. Cone Foundation Paul Hagen and Chris Alfred Kuehlewind Charitable Trust Nancy Soulette Darleen Abbott M. Ryan Conroy Jahnke James Kushlan Michael O'Connell John Spahr Joseph Acosta Harriet Corbett Nancy Hager Barbara Kyse George and Marth Oetzel Richard and Jeanne Specht Edwin Ahrens Robert Cox Christopher and Sherrie Hall Ms. Laurel Ladwig Benjamin Olewine Phillip Spector and Carol Robert Ake Agnes Cralley Steven Hamblin Kaushik Lakshminarayanan Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo & Sue-Lebbin Spector J. William Akers Dalcio Dacol Michael and Jo Ann Hamm Cheryl Lamb Aquarium Sandy St. George Jane Alexander Will and Laurie Danforth Roger and Katherine Benjamin Lamb Shelle Palmer Louise and Rick Steenblik Sandra Allinson Laurie Dann Hammond Paul and Carol Lamberger Janet M. Pawluk Michael Steffes Charles V. Almdale Mike Danzenbaker and Lee J. Douglas Hanna Gary Landers David and Cary Paynter Fred and Ann Stehr Steven Almquist Hung Elliotte Harold Peter and Sue LaTourrette Greg Penkowsky Cynthia Stengel Amec Foster Wheeler Lisa Davenport Alan Harper and Carol Baird Jim and Gloria Lawrence George and Jean Perbix Brooke Stevens Michael and Lorna Rick Davidson Dawn Harris Daniel and Erin Lebbin Perkins Charitable Trust William R. Stott Anderberg Sally Davidson Kenneth Hartman A. Lane Leckman and Geoffrey Peters Eileen Straughan Corin Anderson David Davis and Jo Ann Mills Carol and Peter Hausner Deborah Hall Emilee Peters Michael Stubblefield Gordon Andersson Martha Davis Jennifer Haverkamp The Martha V. Leonard Fund John and Nuri Pierce Paul Suchanek The Arctica and Abbey John and Judy Day Kathryn Head of the North Texas Com- Robert Pinkard Cathy and Bob Sussky Foundation Liz Day Valerie Heemstra munity Foundation Jane Poss Byron Swift Bonnie and Alan Armentrout Maria De la Cruz Leon Lilia Heisley Robert Leppard John and Katrina Powell Anne Symchych The Marjorie Sale Arundel Werner and Barbara Deuser Gayle Hemenway Steven Leuthold Family Alexander Power Anton Szabados Fund for the Earth Charles Dilla James Hendrick Foundation Jan Willem Prak and Karen David Taliaferro Roberta and Ira Asher Christine Doyle and Michael Jacob and Terese Hershey Milt Levy Burtness Prak Sharon Taylor and Joe Audubon Society of Yessik Foundation Lorraine Lid Charles Edwin and Jacque- Cannon Kalamazoo Marge Duncan Judy Hinderliter-Smith and Ms. Jane Light line Probst Ricky Taylor Robert and Margaret Ayres William Duston David Smith Susan Loesser Warren Pruess Kyle Te Poel Donna Bailey Stephen and Magda Eccles Helen Ho Travis Longcore and Larry and Donna Purcey Tejon Exploration Company Robert and Jennie Beth Elmwood Park Zoo Angela Hoffman and Seth Catherine Rich Lucy Quintilliano and Glen R. Tepke Baker Virginia and Jonathan McConchie Liz Love Leonard Fumi Seth and Suzanne Terry Baltimore Emerson Ellen Hoffman Gary Ludi John and Earle Quy Thompson Barbara Banks Justin Everson Frank and Anne Holleman Jeff Lyons and Susan Larry and Mary Ramsey Diane Touret Peter Barnes Patricia Farmer Mark Hollingsworth McNish Carol Reed-Glow Ann and James Truesdale Jack Bartley Kent Fiala Steve Holmer Charles and Sharyn Magee Michael Reid Tamalin Truitt Katharine Beale Field Guides Incorporated Mike and Pam Holmes Andrew and Gemma Major Don Reinberg Alice Turk Katy Belt Linda and Jim Fienberg Caroline Huber Diane Marton Liston Rice Henry Turner Paul Bengtson Gary Filerman H. Martin and Ganelle Susan Massey Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Bonnie and James Van Alen Kenneth and Sue Anne Janie and Ric Finch Huddleston Bernard Master Richardson Roger and Christina Van Berlin Fischhoff Family Chuck Hunter Jana and Blake Matheson Janet Rickershauser Ghent William Bickel Robert and Karen Fisher Michael Hutchins Peter McCalmont Sue Riffe and Mary Huffman George and Beth Wallace Susan Billetdeaux Jane Fitzgerald and Phil Nancy Ingram Randall H. McFarlane Robert Robbins and Astrid Cheryl Watson Rosemary and George Croy John and Nancy Lu Irvine Richard McGuinness Caldas Robert Weeden Billman Oliver Flint Carolyn Jackson Patricia McLean Marius Robinson Bill and Mary Weeks Bruce Black and Mary Fontaine Family Foundation Kathleen Jacobs Kathryn McQuade Michael Rodegerdts Nancy Weiss and Carol Wise Brogan Jeffrey and Leslie Fowler David Jenkins Samuel Means Lawrence Roel Bronwen Welch Greg Bodker The Estate of Vivienne Jeffrey Jens and Ann Mary Anne Mekosh David Roos Dorothy Welch Eleanor Bookwalter Susan Fox Bosclair Alexander Mercer Richard H. Rosen Philip Whitney Richard Bordeaux Laura and Stephen Francis George Jett Maria Valeria Merino Lee Rudin and Lauren Rosemarie Widmer Michael Boss Twila Frieders Liz Johnson Ruth and William Merkey Friedman David Wiedenfeld Martha Boudreau Alicia Furman Scott Johnson Foundation Elizabeth Ruml Keith and Janice Wiggers The Boustead Family Marnie Gaede James Joslin Steve and Sharon Metsch Rust Family Foundation David Wilcove Foundation Patricia Gaffney John and Harriet Joslin Metta Fund at the Com- Joey Ryan John Williamson Paul Bristow Edward Gaillard Judith Joy munity Foundation of Sacajawea Charitable Sandra Wilson Henry Brooks Sarah Garceau Scott Kaiser Western Massachusetts Foundation Meredith Wilson James Brooks Elizabeth Gemmill Brian Kane Roslyn Meyer Christine Salido Robert Wilson Franta Broulik Laura George William Kee Ellen Miller April and Mark Sapsford David Wimpfheimer Deirdre Brown Trudy Gerlach E. Polk Kellam Foundation Eva Moldovanyi Don and Ann Schaechtel Jim and Betsy Winn Bernard Buchholz James Gerlich Fund The Monomoy Fund Susan Schaffel Jay Withgott Oliver Burton Nancy Gilbert Paul Kelley Marianne Mooney and John Scott James Woolfenden Craig Caldwell Arthur and Felicia Gillett Virginia Kelly Joseph Sasfy Richard Sears Chute Greg Wortman and Kathleen Caroline Callery Michael and Becky Gillett John and Kathy Kendall Merrie Morrison Larry Selzer Costello Cameron Foundation Connie and Fred Glore Tom Kenyon Penny and Don Moser Greg and Patti Seymour Penelope and Phillip Wright Colin Campbell Jamie Godshalk and Marj Jared Keyes Larry Moss R. L. Shackle Karin Wuertz-Schaefer James Carpenter Lundy Jorge Khuly Birch and Catherine Mullins Peter Shen Timothy Wyant Mary Cebra Laura Gorman Hunsoo Kim Jean Myers Robert and Nancy Shipman Jack Wykoff Cervantes Family Gerlinde Gossmann Harvey and Mary King Nebraska Community Wayne and Edith Showalter Mark and Kathryn Young Foundation Don and Karen Grade Karen Koltes Foundation Stephen Shunk David Younkman and Ann Stephen Chang Shawn Graff and Cheryl Sandy Komito Judith Nelsen Martin and Linda Siecke McEnany Elaine Charkowski White Karen Koral Russell Nelson Grant Sizemore Jerry and Jody Zamiroswski Robert H. Clark Kathryn Grandison Michael and Ina Korek Meredith Nettles Laurie Slater Vicki Cloonan Charla and Robert Green Foundation Trust Mary Ann Neuses Gary and Jan Small W. Joseph Coleman Greenwich Investment Steve Kornfeld and Terry Arthur Newbold Max Snodderly Kelly Colgan Azar Management Chianello Ian Nisbet Joyce Solomon Carolee Colter Dorothy Gregor Gerald Kruth Ryan Nolan Sonja Sorbo Robert and Rita Colwell Winthrop Gross Woody and Nandini Kuehn The Eric and Joan Norgaard Curtis and Helen Sorrells

21 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 2016Supporters

$500+ (Curlew)

Anonymous (7) Gale Evans Greg and Debi Jackson Judith Randal Larry Silver Venice High School C S Barbara Adler Sherry Ferguson Mark and Dorothy Johnston Judith Rapacz-Hasler Melinda Simon Lisa Wahle o S m r_ m e Brian and Maripat Allen William Fiero Pamela Johnston James Rettig Laurie Sines Nadine Wallace e o b n d Betsy Amsel Jack Finkenberg Judith Jones Brenda Richardson Mary Sjoerdsma Catherine Walling M Er e r rg de Nancy Arbuckle Irene Fortune Randall Jones Beverly Ridgely Michael Skolochenko Kenneth Ward an an ser lex Mary Bachman and William Michael Forwood Sarah Jones Allan Ridley Janet Smith Louis Warren and chicks ©A Downing Michael Francis Edward Kemnitzer Jonathan Rigden Sandra Smith Elizabeth Weinshel Beverly Baker Andrew Frank Coleman Kennedy Wendy Rihner Michael Smith Lee Weiskott David Baker Barbara and Ed Franko Judith Klinman Roaring Fork Audubon Vivek Sriram Joan Weissman David Ball Richard Frechette Lynn Kramer and Patricia Jim and Nancy Roberts Nancy States Melinda Welton and John Louise Chambers and John Carl Freeman McGill The Rockley Foundation Ralph and Betsy Stephens Noel Barrow Mr. J. S. Futcher Mary Krigbaum Earl and Susan Rogers Sarah Stewart Jan and Alan Wentz Linda Batts Susan Galbraith William Kunze Colleen Rooney Louis Storace Stewart White James Bauer Anne Galli David Lange Linda Rudolph Brad Suster Wilson Conservation Trust Brian and Joyce Bender Marty and Cathy Gardner Kent Lannert Alissa Salmore Mark Sutherland Nancy Hamill Winter Charles Berginc Gina and William Garnett The Lanzillotti Family Sanford Bernstein Maurice and Catherine Steven Van R. Winthrop Sara Birkmire Valerie Gebert Foundation Santa Monica Bay Audubon Tauber Ana Arguelles and Jeff Sharon Boatright Martin Gibbins and Paula Richard Latuchie Society Tennessee Ornithological Wneck William and Anne Boeh Crockett Wayne Lauer Kirk Scarbrough Society Sam Woods Dr. Joseph Boone Alan and Mia Gill Catherine Leahey Therese Scheller David Thomas Leon and Beth Workin Emmerson and Sheila J.J. Gilmartin Paul Lehman Inga Schmidt Bill Todman Jeffrey and Kathleen Wright Bowes Joseph Giunta Jeffrey Lehmer Ellen Schwenne Stewart Tolnay Mary Wright Alice Boyle Harrison Glasgow Mary Lellouche Marguerite Sellitti Marana Tost Bill Wuerthele Susan Breisch Lynn Glesne Roma Lenehan Laura Sessums Dallas Traeger Kimberley Young Sharon Brown Phil and Carole Goodyear Michael Levin Joni Shereda and Brian Holly Van Dyk Robert Zappala Lydia Budak Janice Gordon Janet Locklear McKenna Jeremy Van Dyke Peg Zappen and Patrick Claudia Burns Tiffany Grade Henry Lord Joan Sherman Peter and Georgia Van Dyke Caffrey Joseph and Helen Calles Michael Graff Eva Lydick John Sherwood Robert Vanderkamp Nancy Zweng Jeff and Melinda Chapman Tom Grahame Clark MacKenzie Rebecca Chasan Leda Beth Gray E. Magula Elliot Chasin Kenney and Cheryl Griffiths Sara Mahmoud Michael Christopher Amy Grose Steve and Patti Marek Ronald Cicerello Danielle Gustafson Jina Mariani Nancy and Charles Cladel Candice Guth and David Susan Marsden Paul Clarke Pogel Bob and Siri Marshall Christina Clayton Mace Hack Jennifer Matkin Nancy Clayton Carol Hahn Sarah McCoy Cindy Cobb Mary Haley Catherine McFadden Kenneth and Jane Cole Kathy Hall Anne McLaughlin Robert Coley Jane Hallowell Sally McNair William Collins Renee and Tony Halterlein Stephen McVeigh Michael Corcoran Kate Hannah Rodney Mead Elizabeth Crabtree Beverly Hansen Ursula Messerli Meghan Crowley Joan Hardie Bruce and Mary Moffatt Elizabeth Culver Elizabeth Hardy Kerry Morris Stephen and Georganna Kathleen Hartman Jack Morrison Daley Christopher Harwood Kathryn Morrow Patricia Danzon Peter Haugk Eugene Morton and Bridget Judith Davidson Jonathan Heller Stutchbury John Davis John Hemphill Michael Mosling Deanna Dawson Chris and Christina Herman Erik Nelson Edward Dayton Allison and Brian Herriott Alice Newberry Robert DeLine John and Hermi Hiatt Edward Newbold and Delia Elizabeth Denning Jena Highkin Scholes Donna Desjardins David Hill James Nix and Phyllis Binder Bob Dohmen Stephen Hill Phyllis Nofzinger Henry Doll Nancy Hillstrand Mary Oster David and Sharon Dowdy Heather Hodges Mary B. Palmer Gisela Drysdale-Zelenka Caitlin Hopkinson Suzanne Palminteri Lisa Dutton John Hull Esther and Leonard Pardue Alison Ellicott Alicia and Art Hulse George Parker Hardy and Barbara Reed Huppman Sheila Pera Eshbaugh Diane Ichiyasu Theresa Perenich Claes Persson Frank Pine Donors at the $100-$499 level are listed in Kincey Potter the online version of this report, available at Thane Pratt abcbirds.org/results/annual-reports/ Nancy Quinlan Cynthia Ramos Long-billed Curlew by moosehenderson/Shutterstock

22 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Legacy Circle The Legacy Circle consists of ABC members who have included ABC in their estate plans through a bequest or other planned gift. This group of committed individuals supports our vision for the future of bird conservation. See page 27 for information on C S o S m r_ m e how to join. e o b n d M Er e r rg de an an ser lex and chicks ©A Kelly Colgan Azar Kathy Freas Pamela Johnston Janet M. Pawluk Cathy and Bob Carlton Collier John Frederick Judith Joy Else Perkins-Martin Sussky Anonymous (51) William Collins Darlene Friedman Thomas Joyce Mary Lou Petersen Jil Swearingen and Warren Jane Alexander Roseann Comstock Larry and Jean Karl Jungbluth Robin Peterson Steiner Betsy Amsel Warren and Cathy Cooke Fry Bonnie Jupiter Regina Phelps Thomas and Gail Sweet Michael and Lorna Anderberg Harriet Corbett Walter S. Fuller Susan Kaley Frank Pine John Tautin Gordon Andersson Mary Crowe Costello Alicia Furman Judith Kay Patricia Polentz Steve and Britt Thal Candye Andrus Carol Coy Jennifer Gaden Warren and Barry King Calvin Pomarius Larry Therrien Joyce Angleberger James Cressman Mary Ellen and Robert Gerald Klebauskas Jane Poss David Thomas Roberta and Ira Asher Virginia Culver Gadski Steve Kornfeld and Terry Nancy Post Lawrence Thompson Susanne Bader Rigdon Currie Erika Gates Chianello Daniel Potente Craig and Mary Thompson David Ball Michelle Cutrer Randolph Gerrish Kristine Kramer Karen L. Burtness and Jan Johanna Thompson Gwen Baluss Donnie and Jackie Dann Sibyll Gilbert Diane Krause Willem Prak Suzanne and Seth Thompson Charles Bell David and Patricia Davidson Paula Gills Jane Kruysman John and Earle Jim and Cathy Tilling Katy Belt Carol Lynn Davis Phil Goodyear Woody Kuehn Quy Phyllis Tillinghast Arthur Benson John Davis Laura Gorman Anna Kulcsar Campbell Read Otis Trimble Karen Benzel Pia Davis Gretchen Graff Denise Laberteaux Carol Reed-Glow Alice Turk Sandra Beranich David Davis and Jo Ann Mills Rachel Greenwood James Lawrence Don Reinberg Henry Turner Kenneth and Sue Ann Berlin Nancy Davlantes John and Sue Gregoire Catherine C. and George C. The Reissing Family Roger and Christina Van Jean Berry John and Judy Day Wink Gross Ledec James Rettig Ghent Brenda Best Marie De Angelis Candice Guth Paul Lehman Susan Richards Gregory Voge Diann Bilderback Werner Deuser Paul Hagen Rita Leonard Irene-Eva Ries Ronald Wagner Susan Billetdeaux Dale Melinda Dixon Michael and Jo Ann Hamm Sherry Leonardo Don Roberson Bob Wagner Marsha Booker Jamie Donaldson John and Eleanor Harding Richard Haughton Livesey III Mary Rojas David Walsh Mike Boss and Sheila Vince Barbara Driscoll W. Edward and Susan Nick Macahan Colleen Rooney Robert Walton Ron Bowman Barbara Drummond Harper-Scott Jim Macaleer Arlene Roth Sharon Wander Maggie Brahm Daniel Dunst Dawn Harris Louise Mariana Lee Rudin and Lauren Fried- Robert Warren Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Bill Duston David Harrison and Joyce Stanley and Wendy Marsh man Tom Wasilewski Paul Bristow Janna Dutton Millen Susan Martin Frederick Rudolph Fred Weber Henry Brooks Richard and Nancy Eales Kathleen Hartman Dottie McKissick Jeff Rusinow Marc Weinberger Jim and Yuko Brumm Diane Emord Jeff Hayward Patty McLean Mark Scheuerman Melanie Weintraub Bobi Bryant Diane Engleke June Heilman Beth McMaster Georgann Schmalz Nancy Weiss and Carol Wise Joelle Buffa Mari Epstein Patricia Heirs Kathi Mestayer Meredith Schroeer Melinda Welton Steven Bullock Diane Exeriede Dale Henderson Sandra Miller Bishop and Lynn Sheehan Lynn and Stuart White Stanley Buman Marie Farr Carolyn Hendricks Linda Miller David Sickles Richard Whittington Shelly Bunge and Lura Burton Joan M. Felder Joan Hero Mohlman Kathleen B. Siebert David Wilcove Kathy Burger and Glen Lola Felix Lois Herrmann Marianne Mooney and Joseph Arline Siegel John Williamson Gerada George and Rita Fenwick Ellen Hoffman Sasfy Steven and Stephanie Singer Jacqueline Williamson Robert Burgett Cindy Ferguson Helen-Marie and Paul Narca and Alan Moore-Craig Jim Sipiora Meredith Wilson Theresa Cabral Louise and Richard Holmgren Penny and Don Moser Bernie Slofer Sandra Wilson Brian and Sheryl Caine Fessenden Lisa Holzapfel Robert Mougin Steven L. Snyder Elise Wolf Nancy Campbell Estella and Armand Fidanza Alison Hope Helmut and Nancy Mueller Marybeth Sollins Roger Wolfe Michael and Mary-Lynn Sandy Fiebelkorn Peter Hubbell Sena Mulder Sharon Sorenson Christine Wolff Cervantes Gary Filerman Mary Humes Charles Nasser in memory of Susan Spencer Sam Woods Jeff and Melinda Chapman Janie and Ric Finch Terry Hunter Al and Marjorie Nasser Sue Staebler Jared Workman June Chastain Thomas Finegan Diane Ichiyasu Polly Nicely Peary and B.K. William Wrenn David Chuljian Carol Fiore George Ivey Ian Nisbet Stafford Harriet Wright Sue Clasen Howard Fischer Mary Janvrin Kathleen O'Connor Suzanne Staples Jeannie Wright Laura Cleveland Virginia Fischer Carol Jeffery Bill Opengari Cynthia Stengel William Wyman Clare Close James Fossard George Jett Sophie Osborn Martha Stewart William Young Arthur Cody Susan Fox Stephen Johnson Miriam Paquin Roger Storz Raymond Ziarno Mary Strasser Colclough Jonathan Franzen Mark Johnston Roberta Parry Susan B. Strange Elizabeth Zimmerman

Western Sandpipers by Lipset_SS 2016Supporters Photographers Agency and Organizational Supporters Aitkin County, Minnesota Ohio Biological Survey Cesar Abrill Frode Jacobsen James Petruzzi Arkansas Game & Fish Commission Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conserva- Roger Ahlman Grupo Jaragua Sergio Lopez-Pineiro Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission tion Daniel Alarcon Ryan Hagerty Sheldon Plentovich Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association Ciro Ginez Albano Susan Haig Pronatura Noreste Beltrami County, Minnesota Pennsylvania Game Commission Ted Ardley Marlin Harms João Quental Bureau of Land Management South Dakota Game and Fish Guillermo Armenteros Mark Harper Gemma Radko Center for Natural Lands Management Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Nick Athanas and Tropical Peter Hawrylyshyn André Raine Commonwealth of Virginia Agencies Birding John Hayes Kacy Ray Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State of Alaska Ron Austing Barbara Heindl Eric C. Reuter Department of Defense State of Illinois Kathy Baca Peter Hodum Betty Rizzotti Ducks Unlimited, Inc. State of Indiana Michael Baird Mark Hoffman Lori Rodriguez, USFWS Global Environment Facility State of Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Fund Glenn Bartley Steve Holmer Terry Ross, Wikimedia Commons Illinois Department of Natural Resources State of Tennessee Suzanne Beauchesne Bill Holsten Andrew Rothman Iowa Department of Natural Resources State of Texas Scott Bechtel Greg Homel Cameron Rutt Inter-American Development Bank State of Wisconsin Dan Behm Bill Hubick Hayataro Sakitsu Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Sustainable Forestry Initiative Jessica Behnke Joyce Hwang Libby Sander Institute Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Jason Berry Robert Hyman Fabrice Schmitt Michigan Association of Conservation Districts Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Issac Betancourt Jose Ilanes Ed Schneider Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural University of Tennessee Biodiversitas Frode Jacobsen Dubi Shapiro Development University of Wisconsin – Extension Dušan Brinkhuizen José Almir Jacomelli, Jr. Sharp Photography Michigan Department of Natural Resources University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Jorge Brocca Jack Jeffrey Chris Sheppard Midwest Association of Fish & Wildlife South- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bugwood.org Mark Johnson Tom Shreve ern Wings Fund USDA Forest Service Jim Chagares Paul B. Jones Tom Slade Minnesota Department of Natural Resources USDA Natural Resources Conservation Rudimar Narciso Cipriani Trevor Joyce Francisco Sornoza Minnesota Forest Resources Council – North- Service Cindy Coker Ashok Khosla Jacob Spendelow east Regional Landscape Committee U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Warren Cooke Artuo Kirkconnell Mark L. Stafford Mississippi State University Virginia Department of Game and Inland Murray Cooper Klamath Bird Observatory Michael Stubblefield Missouri Department of Conservation Fisheries Columbia Land Trust Christy Klinger Shoaib Tareen Natural Resources Research Institute, Univer- Western Hemisphere Species Initiative/Orga- Bill Dalton Robby Kohley Glen Tepke sity of Minnesota Duluth nization of American States Megan Dalton Ed Konrad Greg Thompson Nebraska Game and Park Commission Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Mike Danzenbaker Edward Lai Larry Thompson North Dakota Outdoor Heritage Ian Davies Carlos Estaban Lara John Tschirky Byron Delgado Jeff Larkin John Turner Jim Denny Peter LaTourrette U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gifts in Honor Aditi Desai Greg Lavaty U.S. Geological Survey Clyde Adams Allen J. Katz Owen Deutsch Daniel J. Lebbin Kristen Vale Mary and Ed Benzel Mary Ann Koral Ron Dudley Dennis Maleug Eric VanderWerf Vic Berry Diane Krause ECOAN Robert McCaw Francisco Veronesi Callie Bertsch Archer Larned and Chris Bason Laura Erickson Michael McFarlin Gerrit Vyn Gerard Boscia Jared Leopold Chris Farmer Darin James McNeil, Jr. George Wallace Cheryl Burns Liz Love Jonathon Felis, USGS Dave McRuer Michael Walther Lura Burton and Shelly Bunge Conor Mackey Cindy Ferguson Peter Morris Chris Warren Brian and Sheryl Caine Ellis and Wendy Maxey Eduardo Figueiredo Kazuya Naoki Sophie Webb Warren and Cathy Cooke Susan MccGrath JB Friday Hannah Nevins John D. White Erin Crandall and Colin Davis Jim McIver and Donna Rainboth Fundación Jocotoco Tessa Nickels David Wiedenfeld Paula Crockett Sally and Robert McNair Fundación ProAves Oikonos Alan D. Wilson Kate Dalton and Gregg Quimby Lee Miller Pat Gaines Fabio Olmos Michael Woodruff Wayne Danielson Lois Miller Jim Gilbert Enrique Ortiz Ralph Wright William Daws Kieran O'Dell Lynda Goff Susan Otuokon Alfred Yan Anastasia Djabarov Nancy O'Hara Tom Grey Mike Parr Lindsay Young Janet Duerr and Steven Schafer Diane Ostapuk Maya Ednie Emmanuel and Stella Papadakis Tracy Estep Kelly Peck Alisa Firehock Philip Poling Sheila Fitzgerald Lisa Porter Bill Fredricksen Lindsay and Devon Ritter Urs Geiser Joshua Robeson Tina Gheen Ellie Sanders Karen Gordon John Sanford Marilyn Hametz Emma Su Michael Hamm Hana Takebe Marilyn Heilprin Adrien P. Taylor Jo and Don Henry James Hazelwood Taylor Annis Henson Ruth Thacker Chris and Steven Hightower Steve Thal Chris Houser and Jessica Mondres Sidney Wade Jeanne Howell Rick Wilkens Patty Hoyt and David Wimpfheimer The Woodburgs Michael Huber Brenda Wright and Coen Dexter Andrew Isenhower Jack "Loved Cardinals" Yagecic Wayne Johnson

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Northern Saw-whet Owl by Karen Blaugrund_SS AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY

Gifts in Memoriam Matching Gift Companies Marco Antonio Alvarado Judi K Adobe Matching Gift Program John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Amanda Andrade Joan Hogan, Tom Halpin, and Dan Agilent Employee Giving Lannan Foundation Shannon Antoine Keyack Campaign Merck Gale Auguste Joni Lane Allstate Giving Campaign Morgan Stanley Aon Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Rosie Ault Renne Leatto Baxalta Program Sandy Bernstein Bill LoSasso BP Matching Fund Programs Pitney Bowes Vic Berry Cheryl Miller Chevron Humankind Shell Oil Company Foundation Frank Blackburn Jr. Lois Miller Deutsche Bank Americas Silicon Valley Community Founda- Elizabeth Clavel Wayne Lawrence Neal Foundation tion Walter Craigie Dale Nipstad France-Merrick Foundation The Boeing Company Nelvina DeKam Roberta Parry Freeport-McMoan Copper & Gold The Boston Foundation Myra K. (von Behren) Dell Jill Sweetie Peiser Foundation The Skoll Foundation GE Foundation Truist.com Beverly Erbacher Michelle Philips Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts UBS Matching Gift Program Robert Fauteux Cynthia Wiggins Reddell Program Union Pacific John Finnegan George Frank Sams Graham Holdings Zeta Associates Marline Firkus Robert Schaefer IBM Corporation Stephen Jay Flanagan Bob Schafer Johnson & Johnson Family of Wilbur E Garrett Kathy Schanck Companies Ron Gullick Richard Selzer Carolyn Heil-Dorn Doris Skaja Gifts in Kind David Huebner Maurice Tauber Martha Barrett Huestis Brian Taylor Bill Thompson, III Kīlauea Field Station, Pacific Island David M. Huff Peter C. Williams Birdwatcher’s Digest Ecosystems Research Center, Frank Huff Gary Filerman US Geological Survey Russell Galen Catherine E. McDermott American Gold-finch by Nancy Bauer_SS Partner Organizations David Sibley

Allegheny Bird Conservation Corporación Nacional Forestal, University of Hawai‘i-Hilo Ministerio del Medio Ambiente Reserva Biológica Tirimbina, Alliance Chile Hawai‘i Department of Land and (MMA), Chile Costa Rica Alliance to Protect Prince Edward Deschutes Land Trust Natural Resources', Division of Ministry of the Environment, Reserva Silvestre Privada El County (Ontario) Dirftless Area Land Conservancy Forestry and Wildlife Government of Ecuador Jaguar American Forest Foundation Earthjustice Hawai‘i Green Growth Minnesota Logger Education Revive & Restore Amigos de Sian Ka'an, Mexico Eckerd College Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Program Rochester Birding Association Aquasis, Brazil Endangered Habitats League Refuge Mississippi Valley Conservancy Ruffed Grouse Society/ American Asociación Armonia, Bolivia Endangered Species Coalition Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Moloka‘i Land Trust Woodcock Society Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos Ennead Architects Houston Audubon Society Myer, Glitzenstein & Eubanks, LLC San Diego Zoo Global (ECOAN), Peru Environmental Protection in the Hui Ho‘omalu i Ka ‘Āina National Tropical Botanical Garden SAVE Brasil, Brazil Audubon New York Caribbean Human-Wildlife Interactions National Wild Turkey Federation Save Ontario Shores AvesChile, Chile Florida Department of Environ- Instituto Butantan, Brazil Nature Canada Saving Birds Thru Habitat Aves Y Conservación, Ecuador mental Protection – Division of Instituto de Fomento Pesquero, The Nature Conservancy Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Bat Conservation International Recreation and Parks Chile Nature Saskatchewan Smithsonian Institution Migratory Bird City Wisconsin Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva- Instituto Ecología, Mexico New York City Audubon Bird Center Bird Conservancy of the Rockies tion Commission Instituto Uiraçu, Brazil Northern Great Plains Joint Venture Sociedad Ornitológica de la Bird Conservation Network Florida Shorebird Alliance Island Conservation Northern Laramie Range Alliance Hispaniola (SOH), Dominican Birders for Responsible Wind and Forestry, Wildlife and Parks International Crane Foundation Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge Republic Solar Energy Division, Dominica James Campbell National Wildlife Ontario Nature South African Pulp & Paper BirdLife International Fundação Biodiversitas, Brazil Refuge Oregon Wild Industries (SAPPI) Black Swamp Bird Observatory Fundación Equilibrio Azul, Ecuador Kaua‘i Albatross Network Osa Conservation, Costa Rica Sustainable Forestry Initiative Blandin Paper Company (UPM- Fundación Jocotoco, Ecuador Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, Tennessee Ornithological Society Kymmene Corporation) Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y Recovery Project University of Hawai'‘i-Mānoa Texas General Land Office Bon Secour National Wildlife la Conservación (FUNDAECO), Kīlauea Field Station, Pacific Island Pacific Islands Climate Change Texas Parks and Wildlife Refuge Guatemala Ecosystems Research Center, Cooperative Department Braddock Bay Bird Observatory Fundación ProAves, Colombia U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife The Urban Wildlands Group Carnegie Museum of Natural FXFowle Architects Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Office (USFWS) United Nations Environment History’s Powdermill Avian Galveston Island Park Board of Project Pacific Rim Conservation Program Research Center Trustees Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative Papahānaumokuākea Marine University of Georgia Center for Biological Diversity Genesee Audubon Kīlauea Point National Wildlife National Monument University of Guadalajara, Mexico City of Eugene, Oregon Golden Eagle Audubon Society Refuge PETA Urban Ecology Center City of Port Aransas (Idaho) Klamath Bird Observatory Picaflor de Arica, Chile U.S. Geological Survey Western Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Golden Gate Audubon La Asociación Red Chilena de Portland Audubon Ecological Research Center- Program Government of the Dominican Herpetología (RECH), Chile The Prairie Enthusiasts Seabird Program Colorado State University Republic, Dominica Republic Long Tom Watershed Council Prendergast Laurel Architects U.S. Green Building Council Columbia Land Trust Government of Honduras, Maryland Ornithological Society Pro Delphinus, Peru US Treasury Comisión Nacional para el Honduras Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project ProNatura Chiapas, Mexico Virginia Alliance for Shelters Conocimiento y Uso de La Bio- Greenbelt Land Trust Maui Nui Seabird Recovery Project Pronatura Noreste, Mexico Virginians for Responsible Energy diversidad (CONABIO), Mexico. Grupo de Ecología y Conservación Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Pronatura Noroeste, Mexico Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Confederated Tribes of Arizona de Islas Project Pronatura Sur, Mexico Observatory Conservation Council for Hawai’i Grupo Jaragua, Dominican Mexican Navy, Secretaría de ProVita, Venezuela The Wildlife Society The Conservation Fund Republic Marina Proyecto de Golondrina del Wisconsin Humane Society Conservation Law Center Eric K. Gillespie Professional Milwaukee Audubon Tempestad del Collar Wisconsin Young Forest Conservation Metrics Corporation Ministério do Meio Ambiente Red de Observadores de Aves y Partnership Cornell Lab of Ornithology Hawai‘i Cooperative Studies Unit, (MMA), Brazil Vida Silvestre de Chile (ROC)

25 ANNUAL REPORT 2016 ABC Board of Directors Warren Cooke, Chair (to 1.2017) George Fenwick, President William Leighty, Vice Chair (to William Sheehan, Vice Chair (to Larry Selzer, Chair Sharon Forsyth 1.2017) 1.2017) Patricia Bauman Jonathan Franzen Josh Lerner Shoaib Tareen Martha Boudreau Kathryn Hale Walter Matia Andrew Velthaus David Davidson David Harrison Merrie Morrison, Secretary (Non Robert Weeden Cinnamon Dornsife Carolyn Hendricks Board-member) Charlotte Wright V. Richard Eales, Vice Chair and Kimberly Kaufman Jeffrey Peters Treasurer ABC Staff George Fenwick, President Renee Kitt, Grants and Finance Coordinator Bob Altman, Pacific Northwest Conservation Officer Daniel Lebbin, Vice President of International Programs Victoria Atkins, Bookkeeper Erin Lebbin, Assistant Director of Development Jason Berry, International Landscape Conservation Officer Casey Lott, VP for Conservation Information Synthesis Callie Bertsch, Forest Habitat Coordinator Joe Lowe, Web Manager Isaac Ruiz Betancourt, Migratory Birds Development Officer Cheryl Mandich, Northern Great Plains Conservation Coordinator Annie Bradfield, Director of Membership Conor Marshall, Associate, Communications, Policy and Operations Chad Carlin, Early Successional Habitat Private Lands Forester (MI) Colleen McCool, Development Officer Chad Carroll, Grants and Finance Coordinator Kirsten Luke McCord, GIS Specialist Atlantic Coast Joint Venture Jenna Chenoweth, Membership Coordinator Rochelle McReynolds, Director of Philanthropy Jennifer Cipolletti, Policy Program Officer Anne E. Mini, Science Coordinator Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Venture Sussy De la Zerda, International Program Manager Jack Morrison, Planned Giving Director and Major Donor Officer Aditi Desai, Director of Multimedia and Assistant Director, Communications Merrie Morrison, Vice President Administration Peter Dieser, Golden-winged Warbler Public Lands Coordinator Hannah Nevins, Seabird Program Director Amanda Duren, Cerulean Warbler Appalachian Forest Enhancement Clare Nielsen, Vice President for Communications Partnership Coordinator (PA) Cynthia Palmer, Director, Pesticides Science and Regulation Chris Farmer, Hawai’i Program Director Michael Parr, Vice President and Chief Conservation Officer Todd Fearer, Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture Coordinator David Pashley, Vice President of US Conservation Partnerships Rita Fenwick, Vice President of Development Gemma Radko, Communications and Media Manager Jane Fitzgerald, Vice President and Central Hardwoods Joint Venture Kacy L. Ray, Gulf Conservation Program Manager Coordinator Aimee Roberson, Rio Grande Joint Venture Coordinator Duane Fogard, Early Successional Habitat Private Lands Forester (MN) Holly Robertson, International Development Officer Rhonda Foster, Director of Finance David Roos, CFO and Vice President of Finance Jesús Franco, Rio Grande Joint Venture Assistant Coordinator Andrew Rothman, Migratory Bird Program Director Kenneth Gee, Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture Conservation Delivery Libby Sander, Senior Writer/Editor Specialist William (Bishop) Sheehan, General Counsel Jim Giocomo, Oaks & Prairies Joint Venture Coordinator Christine Sheppard, Bird Collisions Campaign Manager Shawn Graff, Vice President of Great Lakes Region Kevin Sheppard, Golden-winged Warbler Private Lands Coordinator Slater Hafer, PA Cerulean Warbler Private Lands Forrester Grant Sizemore, Director of Invasive Species Programs Larry Heggemann, Central Hardwoods Joint Venture Delivery Coordinator Philip Tanimoto, International Conservation Project Officer Bennett Hennessey, Brazil Conservation Program Coordinator John Tschirky, Migratory Bird Project Officer Steve Holmer, Director of the Bird Conservation Alliance and Vice President Amy Upgren, AZE Program Officer of Policy Kristen Vale, Coastal Program Coordinator—TX Jennifer Howard, Public Relations Director Beth Wallace, Administrative and Program Assistant Natalie Howard, Office Manager David Wiedenfeld, Senior Conservation Scientist Michael Hutchins, Director of the Bird-Smart Wind Energy Campaign Emily Jo (EJ) Williams, Vice President of North American Birds and Cara Joos, Central Hardwoods Joint Venture Science Coordinator Habitats Kate Jordan, Grants and Finance Coordinator Wendy Willis, International Conservation Project Officer Sara Keith, HR Coordinator Kevin Yoder, PA Cerulean Warbler Private Lands Forester Brad Keitt, Director, Oceans and Islands David Younkman, Vice President Western Region Becky Keller, Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture Science Coordinator Dariusz Zdziebkowski, Director of Information Technology Nora Kennedy, Early Successional Habitat Private Lands Forester (WI)

26 | ANNUAL REPORT 2016 Sandhill Crane by Rosalie Kreulen_SS A Legacy for Birds – Kathy Burger and Glen Gerada

"We are involved in birding both in our local community and internationally. In developing our estate plans, we believed it was important to give back, not just to specific people in our families, but also as a lasting gift to ideas we are passionate about. For us that means a commitment to preserve and protect bird species and their habitat, which in a larger sense protects the vital ecosystems we all depend on.

American Bird Conservancy is included in our estate plans because ABC addresses "big issues" critical to birds, such as wind towers; through the Bird Conservation Alliance, ABC brings together diverse environmental groups to work as partners for the benefit of birds; and finally, we have had the opportunity to meet and to bird with many of the ABC staff. They have invariably impressed us with the passion and extreme work ethic they bring to their efforts.

ABC is a nimble, results oriented group which Kathy Burger and Glen Gerada, 2012. has earned our respect and our financial support." - Kathy Burger and Glen Gerada

You too can leave a legacy for birds when you join ABC’s Legacy Circle with an estate gift through your will, retirement plan, trust, or life insurance policy. If you would like more information, or if you have already included ABC in your estate plans, please contact Jack Morrison, Planned Giving Director, at 540-253-5780 or at [email protected]. Thick-billed Parrots by Joshua Haviv_SS 2016 Financial Statement

Interest and Investment Gain: 2%

ANNUAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE Other Other Revenue: 1% organizations and Individual Contributions $ 3,205,407 corporations: 1% Bequests: 13% Individual Contributions: 25% Federal Government Grants $ 3,316,394 Foundation Contributions $ 2,511,566 Multi-lateral/ Multi-Lateral/Federal/Other Agency Grants $ 1,873,460 Federal/ Other Agency Other Organizations and Corporations $ 175,510 Grants: 14% Bequests $ 1,652,313 Other Revenue $ 143,229 Interest and Investment Loss $ 218,599 (incl. Unrealized Loss) Federal Government Foundation Total Annual Support and Revenue $13,096,478 Grants: 25% Contributions: 25%

ANNUAL EXPENSES Program Fundraising for Bird Conservation Programs $ 10,047,105 Fundraising International Management for ABC: 4% Partners: 0% Education and Outreach $ 801,213 and General: 11% Membership $ 262,344 Membership: 2% Total Program Services $11,110,662 Education and Outreach: 6% Supporting Services Management and General $ 1,367,575 Fundraising for ABC $ 457,017 Fundraising for International Partners $ 66,565 Total Supporting Services $ 1,891,157

Total Annual Expenses $13,001,818

Net Assets at December 31, 2016 $ 5,869,746 Bird Conservation Programs: 77%

American Bird Conservancy’s financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2016 were audited by the Certified Public Accounting firm of Gelman, Rosenberg, and Freedman. A copy of ABC’s complete financial statements can be obtained by contacting: American Bird Conservancy, P.O. Box 249, The Plains, VA 20198 or on our website at abcbirds.org.

ABC is rated an “Exceptional” Four Star Charity by the independent group Charity Navigator. We are proud to receive their highest rating. charitynavigator.org Snowcap by Ondrej Prosicky_SS American Bird Conservancy P.O. Box 249 The Plains, VA 20198 540–253–5780 | 888–247–3624 abcbirds.org

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