A Closer Look at Conservation 2016 Annual Report

Pittsburgh, PA Dear Friends 2016 has been another milestone year for the National , and I can’t thank you enough for helping to make that possible!

You may have noticed that our Annual Report cover features Valentino, our two-toed sloth. While our name conjures images of free-flying, beautiful birds, we are first and foremost a conservation organization. One of our most important roles is connecting people to the natural world in meaningful ways. This year, Valentino became a high-profile ambassador for conservation. By telling his story, we were able to shine a spotlight on all of the birds of the Rainforest and the threats they are facing. Valentino even connected with a huge national audience when The Ellen DeGeneres Show featured him meeting Violet, a five-year-old cancer survivor.

As visitors delight in our exhibits, shows and personal encounters, they don’t always realize the essential work that is going on behind the scenes and in the field. This report gives us a chance to highlight this important work in ecological research, veterinary and husbandry advances, and educational outreach. These initiatives are only possible with your support, and I thank you for being a partner in the critical work of advancing global conservation of birds and their habitats.

Sincerely,

Cheryl L. Tracy Executive Director

On the Cover Our cover photo was taken by Dave DiCello, who was the featured artist for our Wings & Wildlife Art Show in November. Thanks to all of the artists, sponsors, donors and attendees, we raised nearly $50,000 for National Aviary programming during this annual weekend event. Learning Educating Conservation Leaders

In 2016, the National Aviary reached 22,895 students through 193 in-house classes and 155 outreach programs. Overall, we educated a record-breaking 178,189 visitors.

As America’s bird , we educate people of all ages and backgrounds about birds, their habitats, the environmental pressures they face, and the role humans play in creating and mitigating these challenges. It’s Spotlight: a tall order, but our exceptionally talented team has a gift for creating One Northside programs that are as fun and inspiring as they are educational. For Every Student Through daily activities and special events, as well as on- and off-site By linking classroom instruction with formal education programs and summer camps, the National Aviary schoolyard research, this innovative offers experiences that amaze and engage. Your support helped to program uses bird interactions to expand the local and regional programming of the National Aviary, enhance students’ understanding positioning us as an authoritative resource for information about birds of the natural world. In partnership and their conservation around the world. with The Buhl Foundation, the National Aviary offered this program free to all 431 second graders in eight Northside elementary schools, donor Spotlight: Brian and Sandra Moroney including Allegheny K-5 featured above. Making a Multi-year Commitment to Youth Having served in various staff and volunteer positions over the years, Brian Students held birdwatching hikes, and Sandra Moroney know the National Aviary inside and out. “The Aviary’s conducted counts at new school bird not just the out-front exhibits, trainers and shows; it’s the behind-the-scenes feeders, and showed off their learning work as well,” said Sandra. That’s why she and Brian have always been at a capstone showcase at the Aviary, willing to support everyday needs, such as purchasing equipment for the where they served as tour guides breeding center or upgrading accounting systems, for their families. Next year, the Jack as well as special projects. With a passion for education, they recently pledged a multi-year gift Buncher Foundation will support to help solidify One Northside For Every Student. expanding to the Hill District and “You have to educate young people, so that they Downtown Pittsburgh. understand what conservation and ecology is all about,” said Brian. Sandra added, “It’s really satisfying to help kids to appreciate nature.” Sharing Building Capacity on the World Stage

With your support, our staff experts are strengthening international partnerships to ensure the health of our planet and the longevity of species. Your grants and donations helped the Department of Conservation and Field Research to expand original research linked to the impact of human population and resource consumption on birds and their habitats. The National Aviary Veterinary Hospital developed Spotlight: innovative treatments and protocols to provide advanced health care to birds and other animals in our collection, treating 1,160 cases. Our Andean Condor experts shared the results of their work through high-level education Director of Veterinary Services programs, professional conferences, and publications to build the Dr. Pilar Fish helped train more than capacity of the global conservation community. 75 Latin American veterinary students at the International Conference of Wildlife Conservation Medicine. Training included lectures and hands- on work with animals at our partner institution, Bioparque Amaru zoo and wildlife center in Cuenca, Ecuador. Dr. Fish shared techniques pioneered right here at the National Aviary, such donor Spotlight: Renee Serokis and Peter Stamoolis as a method of conducting physical Leaving a Legacy for Nature exams without anesthesia, which Renee Serokis and Peter Stamoolis shared a lot during their marriage, reduces the danger to birds. especially a love of birds. They enjoyed visiting the National Aviary to see species up close that they could not spot in their own backyard. So when In southern Ecuador, Director of Renee began making estate plans, she wanted to include the Aviary. Conservation and Research Dr. Steve Latta and his colleagues completed “Renee thought it was very important to protect birds, and the National a multi-year habitat study, which will Aviary is involved in various programs to protect ,” Peter said. Making a bequest to the Aviary was not only an obvious choice, but help researchers and conservationists also an easy one. “It took about three minutes to do,” according to Peter. to conduct more efficient and accurate monitoring of the condor population. Peter is happy to know that Renee’s love of birds lives on through her generous gift. Her unrestricted donation will allow the National Aviary to meet emerging conservation challenges and direct funds to the area of greatest need. Leading Establishing Successful Breeding Protocols

When you visit the National Aviary, you see a collection of birds that are as significant to avian research and conservation as they are beautiful and awe inspiring. This is the result of a purposeful strategy, and your support helped us to expand our collection through meaningful acquisitions of 41 birds and successful hatchings of 49 more in 2016, including critically endangered species. Spotlight: Careful management is key to maintaining a robust and genetically Guam Kingfisher diverse population, especially when it comes to birds that are part of a ® (SSP) to promote their long-term survival. This year, two breeding pairs of Guam The National Aviary’s collection currently comprises 69 SSP Kingfishers produced four offspring, a remarkable success that was a direct species, including the Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Greater Roadrunner result of new protocols developed and Hooded Pitta, which all produced offspring for the first time. at the National Aviary. Only about We also established the North American breeding program for the 150 Guam Kingfishers remain on the Black-faced Ibis and made a critical breakthrough in breeding planet, and their survival depends on Guam Kingfishers, which are extinct in the wild. successful breeding in . Director of Animal Collections Kurt Hundgen serves as vice chair of the Guam Kingfisher SSP, and he established this new program at the National Aviary.

It takes more than simply putting birds together to ensure mating. Hundgen and his team carefully donor Spotlight: Avian Conservation Fund Donors prepared the birds’ habitat and Playing a Direct Role in Saving Species monitored their behavior to create Through the newly established Avian Conservation Fund, donors play a fruitful mating environment. The a direct role in saving species from extinction. Since fall, 275 generous resulting hatchings were a critical donors contributed $35,000 to this vital work, including a matching milestone for this species, and the grant of $10,000 from Peoples Natural Gas and a gift from a donor in protocols developed here will inform Fairbanks, Alaska! Your gifts to the Avian Conservation Fund support future breeding at zoos worldwide. breeding advances, conservation initiatives and research to protect and sustain the Guam Kingfisher and other species. The National Aviary values each of our donors and has made every attempt to accurately recognize every one. If you see an error or omission, please accept our apologies and contact the Development Department at 2016 Donors [email protected] or 412-258-9433. Foundations Blumling & Gusky LLP Pittsburgh Lions Club Dr. Douglas Corkum, Betty Flora and Family BNY Mellon Olde Stonewall LLC Andrea DiMartini The following foundations played a key BNY Mellon Community Partnership Otis Patricia Dodge role in our growth by supporting new Bognar and Company Inc. PA Department of Community Susan and Christopher Farrell programs, capital improvements and Boulevard Glass and Metal Co. Inc. and Economic Development Michael J. and Eileen Flinn essential operations. Bova Corp Patrinos Painting Robert and Lori Geiger Pegher Tree Service Allegheny Foundation Boyd Roll Off John and Suzanne Graf Penn Waste Jane Fox Bradley Fund Boy Scouts of America Troop 23 Laurie Graham of The Pittsburgh Foundation Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Peoples Natural Gas Sy Holzer The Buhl Foundation C.S. McKee LP Perfido Weiskopf John and Christine Horty Jack Buncher Foundation Camelot Communications Group Phoenix Roofing Rona and Ian Hough The Michele and Agnese Cestone Foundation Century Steel Erectors PITT OHIO Jonas and Janis Johnson Colcom Foundation Chemistry Pittsburgh Steelers LLC Thomas and Christine Kobus Dollar Bank Foundation Clark Hill PLC PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Nagy Nagiub Dominion Foundation Cleveland Brothers Equipment Company Priory Hospitality Group David Nesbit Fair Oaks Foundation, Inc. Clista Electric Richard Goettle Inc. Heidi Nitze Federated Investors Foundation, Inc. Cohen, Seglias, Palla, Greenhall & Fruman PC Rivers Casino Alicia and Colin Powell The Herbert G. Feldman Charitable Foundation Community Bank Sargent Electric Company James and Susan Ralston The Grable Foundation Cost Company Scalise Industries Gregg Ramshaw Graf Family Charitable Giving Fund DeGol Carpet Schneider Downs & Company Inc. Eric and Frances Reichl Simpson Reinforcing Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Dewalt Janet Robb Charitable Foundation Dick’s Sporting Goods SingleSource Property Solutions SCARLET MACAW ~ $500 -$999 Honkus-Zollinger Foundation D-M Products Inc. Southwest Aluminum Glass Co. Inc. John E. and Sue M. Jackson Charitable Trust Dollar Bank SSM Industries Inc. Ward Allebach and Lisa Steagall Jack and Jean Ann Jones Fund Dura-Bond Steel Supply Anonymous of The Pittsburgh Foundation Easley & Rivers Sunrise Senior Living Thomas and Cynthia Baily Kerchner Family Fund, No. 2, Eat’n Park Hospitality Group Triangle Fastener Sheila Bair and Mike Kosh of The Pittsburgh Foundation Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC Trib Total Media Josh and Jacklyn Banyas Laurel Foundation Tucker Arensberg PC Dan and Luann Berkley Massey Charitable Trust Ehrlich United Way of Southwestern Bryan Brantley Charles M. Morris Charitable Trust Employers Medical Access Partnership UPMC and UPMC Health Plan Lee Cambria Pajeau Wildlife Foundation Enkompas Technology Solutions Visit Pittsburgh Catherine and Alan Caponi Lewis A. and Donna M. Patterson Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh WGL Energy Services Charitable Foundation Foundation Building Materials Douglas and Judith Cunzolo W.G. Tomko Inc. W.I. Patterson Charitable Fund The Fred Rogers Company Donna and Robert DiMilia Westinghouse Electric Company Peterson Family Foundation Gaitens, Tucceri & Nicholas PC Jane and Michael Dixon The Wilson Group The Pittsburgh Foundation The Garden Club of Allegheny County Eileen K. Flinn Wind River Exploration Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation Gatesman + Dave Susan Glessner WTW Architects Ovid Robinson Charitable Trust Giant Eagle Timothy and Joan Goetz through the PNC Charitable Trust Grant The Hearn Paper Company John and Judith Hall Review Committee Hefren-Tillotson Inc. Donor Society Michael and Lisa Hart Russell Charitable Foundation Henderson Brothers Inc. We thank all of our generous donors Drs. Susan Hoppe and Michael Goodhart James M. and Lucy K. Schoonmaker Foundation Highmark for making us their charity of choice, Lisa Lau Grant M. Shipley Gift Fund The Hillman Company Nathan and Heather Lazur of The Pittsburgh Foundation especially the following Donor Society Howard Hanna Real Estate James E. and Cathy Lehman Vorsheck Family Foundation, Inc. members who made an investment in IDI Consulting Maureen and Tom Madden Robert and Mary Weisbrod Foundation our mission. International Brotherhood of Electrical Gregory and Mary Marchetti The White Pine Fund Workers, Local Union No. 5 MARTIAL EAGLE ~ $2,500+ Michael and Libby Mascaro V. Wayne and Cordelia Whitten Barker Fund Jones Day Carol Adams Blaine and Virginia McKinley of The Pittsburgh Foundation JRD Sales Timothy Adams Steve and Sally McVeigh Kirby Electric Inc. Jennifer and Keith Bertetto Madeline Miles Businesses and Koppers Donald and Gloria Casey Erin Moore Organizations KPMG LLP Patrick and Alice Loughney Shirley Olander We are proud to partner with the Langan Leigh Metcalf Mark Perrott following businesses and organizations Laurel Aggregates Brian and Sandra Moroney Melvin and Carolyn Rex that share a commitment to protect the Legal Grounds Inc. Judith Nocito, Esq. Robert and Mona Riordan valuable species in our care. Lighthouse Electric Company Inc. Estate of Renee Serokis Patricia and Andrew Rodgers Lisanti Painting Company Elizabeth Spence Elizabeth Shimshock AAA Travel M&J Electrical Contracting Inc. S. Adam and Lauren Sufrin Kate St. John A.C. Dellovade Inc. Maher Duessel Kathleen and Louis Testoni Caroline and Matt Stromberg AIG Mascaro Construction Company LP Cheryl and Rick Tracy Allegheny High School Class of 1946 SNOWY OWL ~ $1,000 -$2,499 McGuireWoods LLP John and Carla Weidman Allegheny Regional Asset District Anonymous McKamish Inc. Sally Wiggin Ameriserve Harold Balk Merrill Lynch Thomas P. Wiley Anderson Equipment Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Henry S. Beukema III Atria’s Michael Baker International Maris A. Bondi Please visit www.aviary.org/donate Bayer Corporation North American Rock Garden Society Cassandra and Michael Butterworth to see a complete list of 2016 donors The Benevity Community Impact Fund Allegheny Chapter Richard Caruso of $100 or more. by the Numbers Sarah Jones Volunteer 4,152 of the Year member households 208 202 volunteers summer campers — a record-breaking year! 15,868 hours donated 22,895 $ 366,079 students served value of time through in-house and outreach 42,180 education programs Butterfly Garden visitors 1.88 82% tons of fish consumed Increase in 75 Earned Revenue Monarchs Admissions, $ 3.25 M Merchandise Sales, $ 3.00 M tagged and released Memberships, during Butterflies & Jazz Education Revenue, $ 2.75 M Facility Rentals autumn celebration 69,142 $ 2.50 M were capelin $ 2.25 M (smelts) $ 2.00 M $ 1.75 M $ 1.50 M Total Restricted Expenses 12 13 14 15 16 and Unrestricted Support (unaudited) (unaudited) Programs $ 4 , 349 , 280 Admissions $ 1 , 672 , 000 Administration $ 669 , 120 Government Grants $ 1 , 340 , 000 Fundraising $ 557 , 600 Donations $ 815 , 000 Education Programs $ 547 , 000 56% Fundraising Events $ 423 , 000 $5,576,000 Increase in Merchandise Sales $ 415 , 000 total expenses Attendance Membership $ 363 , 000 Donated Facilities, 180,000 Goods & Services $ 242 , 000 Facility Rentals $ 234 , 000 160,000 Other Income $ 50 , 000 178,189 140,000 $6,101,000 visitors Total Revenue and Support 120,000

100,000 12 13 14 15 16 Your contributions support the National Aviary’s conservation, research, education and avian medicine programs. To learn more, please visit our website or contact Jeremy Davit in our Development Department at [email protected] or 412-258-9429.

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National Aviary Board of Trustees

President Timothy D. Adams, CPA John E. Graf Michael Mascaro Harold F. Balk, Esq. Michael A. Hart First Vice President Henry S. Beukema III Jill Hosko Kathleen Testoni Maris A. Bondi Thomas A. Kobus Second Vice President Bryan C. Brantley Nagy N. Nagiub James E. Lehman Catherine A. Caponi Judith L. Nocito, Esq. Secretary Patricia L. Dodge, Esq. Alicia G. Powell, Esq. Jennifer L. Bertetto Susan L. Farrell Gregg Ramshaw Treasurer Michael J. Flinn, Esq. Thomas P. Wiley Jane Dixon, CPA Timothy R. Goetz