ANNUAL REPORT 2014

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 1 12/11/14 9:55 AM City Audubon works to protect wild birds and their habitats in the five boroughs of , improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers. We are an independent nonprofit with 10,000 members, donors, and volunteers whose dedication and support make our research, advocacy, and education work possible. NYC Audubon is affiliated with the National Audubon Society, and provides local services to its members. NYC Audubon is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Donations are deductible to the extent allowed by law. NYC Audubon meets all of the Better Business Bureau’s Standards of Charity Accountability.

Officers, Board Of Directors, Advisory Council, and Staff

President Seasonal Staff, Interns, Harrison D. Maas Trips & Classes Leaders Marielle Anzelone CREATING PARTNERSHIPS TO Executive Vice President Jarad Astin David Speiser Kate Biller Anita Cabrera PROTECT OUR BIRDS Vice President Elizabeth Craig Richard T. Andrias Phil Cusimano Melanie del Rosario ew York City Audubon, the principal voice for New York City’s birds and Treasurer Jennifer Dilone John Shemilt Henry Fandel their habitats, pursues its mission by means of three fundamental tools: Dennis Galcik Secretary Joe Giunta science-based conservation, educational outreach, and advocacy. We speak, Marsilia A. Boyle Clifford Hagen N Bridget Holmes and fight, for the City’s birds. Substantial accomplishments this past year have been Immediate Past President Liz Johnson Oakes Ames Stephen Karkuff empowered by fruitful partnerships—with City agencies, private corporations, fellow Donald Kass environmentalists, and bird enthusiasts—which have allowed us to bring our research Board of Directors Kimiko Kayano Brenda Torres-Barreto1 Paul Keim expertise and rigorously collected field data to bear in offering solutions to the complex Robert Bate2 Darren Klein Clifford Case Jeffrey Kollbrunner challenges facing our urban bird populations. Judy Craig Victor Koos Alexander Ewing2 Nim Lee In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we met with the , Andrew Farnsworth Michael Lester Marcia T. Fowle Dave Manry government officials, and fellow environmentalists to influence the final draft of the Catherine Schragis Heller Joseph McManus Lynne Hertzog Alan Messer General Management Plan for Gateway National Recreation Area. We succeeded in Sarah Jeffords Peter Rhoades Mott Jeffrey Kimball Steve Nanz strengthening the plan’s protections of crucial habitats for breeding waterbirds and Robert J. Kimtis1 Joseph O’Sullivan Lauren Klingsberg Dustin Partridge horseshoe crabs. We also brought concerned parties to the table, including the Birders Lawrence Levine David Perry Coalition for Gateway, to discuss the future of Wildlife Refuge’s West Eugene Nardelli2 Don Riepe Dorothy M. Peteet1 John Rowden Pond, and submitted the preferred restoration proposal to the Park Service. Peter Shen1 Anne Schwartz Fredric Spar Ann Seligman When snowy owls were culled at JFK airport last winter, we successfully Tom Stephenson Tara Mei Smith Nadir Souirgi collaborated with Audubon New York and utilized press and grassroots outreach Advisory Council David Speiser Sarah Grimké Aucoin Lloyd Spitalnik to pressure the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to utilize non-lethal Drianne Benner Emilio Tobon Garcia Dr. Claude Bloch Anika Tothá methods—and then partnered with the Port Authority to implement a new trap, band, Albert K. Butzel Terra Weiland Rebekah Creshkoff Dottie Werkmeister and relocate program. We also piloted a new partnership with Corporation, Andrew Darrell Gabriel Willow engaging the maintenance staff in reporting dead and injured birds as part of Project Joseph H. Ellis Tod Winston Mary Jane Kaplan Leigh Hope Wood Safe Flight. These contributions will supplement those from citizen scientists now able Robert J. Kimtis2 Kimberly Kriger 1 Term ended June 2014. to participate in the project via our new online database, D-Bird. Janice Laneve 2 Elected June 2014. Pamela Manice 3 Appointed September 2014. These are just a few examples of the growing partnerships that NYC Audubon E.J. McAdams1 4 Departed April 2014. Mary Tyler Moore has forged in the last year, in our efforts to safeguard the incredible diversity of birdlife Peter Rhoades Mott Dorothy M. Peteet2 ANNUAL REPORT that New York City enjoys—but must work tirelessly to protect. “On the ground,” Don Riepe Susan Elbin, Angela Lewis Rosenberg Januzzi, Barbara Lysenko, these efforts are made possible by our small but dedicated professional staff, and by our James R. Sheffield Tod Winston: writing, editorial production network of committed and passionate volunteers. None of our accomplishments would Staff Christina Rubin: design be possible without the generous support and participation of friends like you. Kathryn Heintz,3 Glenn Phillips4 PHOTOGRAPHY We count on you to stay involved and enable us to continue fighting for our Executive Directors Cover: (left to right) NYC Audubon; François city’s birds. Yoryi De La Rosa Portmann; Don Riepe; Susan Elbin, PhD Alexandra DeCandia Angela Januzzi Pages 3, 4: NYC Audubon Darren Klein Page 5: (top to bottom) With thanks, Debra Kriensky Chris Kreussling; Barbara Lysenko Anikó Totha Andrew Maas Page 6: NYC Audubon Adriana Palmer Page 7: (top to bottom) Kaitlyn Parkins NYC Audubon; Elizabeth Joseph O’Sullivan Craig; NYC Audubon Tod Winston Page 8: NYC Audubon Harry Maas Page 9: (top to bottom) David Speiser; Don Riepe President

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 2 12/11/14 9:55 AM Conservation Goals of uring the past year, New York City Audubon the 2011-2015 continued to safeguard birds and their habitats Strategic Plan across the five boroughs of New York City, via our science-based bird conservation work. Leaders in the field, we are the only organization solely dedicated 1. Focus our conservation work on activities that will to conservation, research, education, and advocacy have the most significant strictly for the City’s wild birds. We focus our impacts on bird species of conservation programs on activities that will have the most significant impacts on conservation concern and their Dbird species of conservation concern and their habitats habitats. —while utilizing synergistic partnerships with key • Improve stopover habitat quality NYC Audubon organizations and agencies in the City. and reduce threats to birds is the only organization from buildings, artificial light, and Progress toward achieving our strategic plan reflective glass in and is best illustrated by our two flagship programs: dedicated solely to throughout the City Project Safe Flight and the Waterbirds of New York conservation, • Focus on three regions for Harbor. These two programs address over-arching priority bird species within New conservation issues that impact birds of greatest research, education, York City: conservation need in our region: safe passage during • Jamaica Bay, the Northeast’s and advocacy strictly for migration and good quality nesting and foraging most significant wetland the City’s wild birds • Western Sound/ habitat during the breeding season. Documenting The Narrows, a highly land bird diversity, addressing collisions with built urbanized estuary, yet one of structures, and improving upland stopover habitat are the primary foci for Project great ecological significance Safe Flight. Waterbirds of the New York Harbor focuses on the role of herons, • , the least egrets, gulls, oystercatchers, and their allies as bioindicators of aquatic habitat developed of all five boroughs quality. Through population monitoring; behavioral, reproductive and ecological • Contribute substantially to assessments; and habitat protection, our staff is able to provide key information to changes in law, regulations, and government programs that resource managers for regional planning and protection of vulnerable species. protect birds and their habitats in New York City

2. Increase the number and diversity of people engaged in the conservation of NYC birds • Provide additional quality programs that bring New Yorkers closer to nature • Engage more students in class trips and afterschool programs related to Important Bird Areas • Expand opportunities for citizen science in all five boroughs • Engage more New Yorkers in public advocacy This American oystercatcher was banded in Georgia before we encountered it in New York City. Understanding oystercatchers’ migration patterns and comprehensive habitat needs enables us to protect this species of conservation concern.

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 3 12/11/14 9:55 AM Highlights Project from the Past Year’s Safe Flight Conservation Program Activities mortality data in New York City. Now when a person finds a dead or injured bird, they can report that bird online through D-Bird. Using an interactive map, users record the date, time, location, and species name of the dead or injured bird. These data are stored in a searchable database for use by NYC Audubon researchers. he goal of Project Safe Flight is to make the City Data collected through D-Bird are intended to complement safer for migrating birds. Supported by the Leon the more scientifically rigorous monitoring data collected in Project Levy Foundation, the USFWS Neotropical Migra- Safe Flight. This reporting system will allow NYC Audubon to bet- toryT Bird Conservation Act, and Audubon’s Toyota TogetherGreen, ter capture the scope and degree of collision-related bird mortality NYC Audubon has been able to make great strides in identifying throughout the City. D-Bird may be accessed via a link on the NYC collision risks and hot spots, and proposing viable solutions. Our Audubon homepage, or directly at http://nycaudubon.neocities. future work on this issue will include in-depth investigation into org/D-Bird.htm. the role of artificial light in bird collisions, especially as light is involved in attracting birds to other obstructions to migration in We engaged new partners the built environment; i.e., wind turbines and airports. We have been leading birding trips in Bryant Park for several years, but this past year the Bryant Park Corporation (BPC) We monitored artificial lighting and became a partner in Project Safe Flight. Together we piloted a published the results program to involve maintenance staff in reporting bird collisions. Director of Conservation and Science Susan Elbin, PhD, Research Project Safe Flight volunteers have learned a lot from maintenance Assistant Kaitlyn Parkins, and Intern Elle Barnes conducted a study staff and doorkeepers of the buildings they patrol, since they are in Bryant Park, with the help of Project Safe Flight monitors. They often first on the scene when a bird hits a window but are without evaluated the relationship between the amount of artificial light, the the resources to transport the bird to a rehabilitator or report the expanse of glass windows, and bird mortality. Recently published in collision. We decided to make them part of the team. the Northeastern Naturalist journal, the paper points to a combined Thirty-one members of the BPC sanitation staff attended a effect of nighttime lighting and daytime reflection as a driver for bird training session to learn about bird-building collisions and how to mortality in and around Bryant Park. From our monitoring of the 9/11 use a simple text-in system to report any dead birds they find while Tribute in Light memorial, we know that beacons of artificial light working in the park. The staff ended up reporting several birds disrupt bird migration. Migration was high the night of September this spring, including a hermit thrush, an ovenbird, and an indigo 11, 2013, as it had been in 2010—and our partners at the Municipal bunting. We are continuing to work with BPC and will use the Art Society turned the lights out for pilot program as a model for working with Business Improvement NYC Audubon the birds four times. The wave of Districts in other areas of the City. launched a web-based migration missed New York City in 2014, and the lights remained on. We improved stopover habitat research tool designed McGolrick Park, in Greenpoint, , is unknown to most We launched a new New Yorkers—but to the Greenpoint community, it is the hidden to collect crowd-sourced program: D-Bird jewel of their neighborhood. One of very few green spaces in bird mortality data NYC Audubon has launched a industrial north Brooklyn, McGolrick Park is a nine-acre City web-based research tool designed park, consisting of sparse lawns, some cultivated gardens, and a in the City to collect crowd-sourced bird dog run. It’s a great place for picnics and play, and now, thanks to

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 4 12/11/14 9:55 AM a generous grant from the Greenpoint Community Environmental Local residents helped us transform Fund, it’s a little more bird friendly, too. NYC Audubon, along a sparse piece of Brookyn’s McGolrick Park into a wildlife-friendly native with the help of many volunteers, has installed a 0.25-acre native plant garden. Project Safe Flight plant garden in the southwestern corner of the park. in Bryant Park The garden, affectionately called “the Urban Oasis in Photo Page 4: Thousands of migratory birds were trapped in the Tribute in After spotting a few brown McGolrick Park,” was designed to provide high-quality stopover Light memorial on September 11, 2013. feathers tucked under a bush habitat for birds migrating through New York City. Native plants At the request of NYC Audubon in Bryant Park, Kenrick Carvan were carefully selected to provide cover and food sources for birds monitors, the lights were turned off wheeled over his trash bin, throughout the year. Some of the species chosen include lowbush temporarily to allow the birds to disperse. pulled out his phone, and blueberry, Canadian serviceberry, joe-pye weed, gray goldenrod, and snapped a picture of a hermit common milkweed. In total, more than 4,000 plants were planted thrush, now deceased, that had by 35 volunteers over two days in June. A group of more than 30 crashed into a glass window. volunteers continue to weed, water, and maintain the garden. He quickly sent off a text mes- Volunteers from the Greenpoint community also assisted sage. He then swept up the NYC Audubon Research Assistant Kaitlyn Parkins and Intern bird and carried on with his Melanie del Rosario with biodiversity surveys before the garden day. Mr. Carvan is a member planting began. Throughout May and June, they inventoried of the sanitation crew for plants, performed bird and bat surveys, and the Bryant Park Corporation sampled arthropods throughout the park. (BPC), and one of 31 BPC These data will be compared to surveys staff members participating in after the garden becomes established, NYC Audubon’s Project Safe to determine whether the native plants Flight program. The text he increased the park’s biodiversity. sent contained a picture of the bird he found, the time, and We searched for new his location, and it went to the solutions NYC Audubon bird collision We continued our research and testing database to be added to more of glass treatment at our flight tunnel, than 15 years of data on bird- located at the Wildlife Conservation building collisions in the City. Society’s Bronx , to improve visibility of glass to birds (with the American Bird Conservancy, Ennead Architects, Fordham

University, and New Jersey Audubon This male hooded warbler, caught at our Society). flight tunnel at Zoo, helped us test bird-safe glass before continuing its migration.

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 5 12/11/14 9:55 AM Water Quality and The Waterbirds Habitat Protection of New York Harbor

ew York City is a Island is particularly disturbing. While the Harbor Heron islands city of water—and is provide refuges necessary for the City’s nine species of long-legged vulnerable to storm waders to successfully nest, these island colonies are particularly surges,N climate change, sea level rise, and vulnerable to disturbance by both people and predators. water-based toxins and pollutants. Waterbirds are at the top of the Particularly in light of ongoing decision-making concerning the food chain and are excellent bioindicators of habitat health and safeguarding of Jamaica Bay islands from recreational disturbance, water quality. Supported in part by the Leon Levy Foundation, it is crucial that adequate protections are ensured for these island Director of Conservation and Science Susan Elbin has been partici- colonies. NYC Audubon continues to post signage alerting the pating in regional and state waterbird meetings and management public against visiting the islands, and to advocate for sensible discussions, and she is currently the president of the Waterbird restrictions on recreational activity close to the islands. Society. NYC Audubon has the capacity to be a leader in water- Our 2014 survey again found no nesting activity on Goose bird conservation and is leading efforts to understand and inter- Island. While numbers have remained constant across the harbor pret threats to waterbirds from human and natural disturbance. in the last year, and healthy colonies were found on the East NYC Audubon is continuing to create a comprehensive water- River’s South Brother Island as well as on Jamaica Bay’s Subway birds program, with “Harbor Herons” and migratory shorebirds Island and the restored Elder’s Point East in 2013 and 2014, we programs at its core. must remain vigilant to ensure that these colonies do not suffer the sad fate of Goose Island. We are building a significant long-term database In an effort to determine where ‘our’ birds go during the of nesting birds (30 years and counting) winter, and if they return to breed when they are mature, NYC On May 30, 2013, NYC Audubon’s Harbor Herons survey Audubon has been banding birds. Since 2006, we have banded 47 team landed on Goose Island, one of seventeen potential nesting glossy ibis and 29 snowy egrets. In 2013 and 2014 we were able islands in the harbor, and encountered to attach wing tags to 49 great egrets and have learned that our a panorama strikingly different from newly fledged egrets spend time in areas close to the City: the NJ NYC Audubon the healthy colony surveyed the year Meadowlands and northern New Jersey, as well as places farther before. As they searched for nests afield (Philadelphia and Quebec). One now two-year-old wing- has been banding among the island’s thick stands of tagged egret has returned to the harbor. We would never have birds since 2006 low trees, the team of four researchers known this without our banding efforts. encountered a silent tableau of in an effort to abandoned nests, broken eggs, and dead We are working with other waterbirds of determine where adults. Along with signs of predators, the New York Harbor the researchers found evidence that To date, we have banded 1,500 double-crested cormorants, ‘our’ birds go people had been spending time on the 175 herring and great black-backed gulls, and 29 American island—most likely frightening the oystercatchers. A small colony of herring gulls has appeared on during the winter birds off their nests, exposing their the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center’s new green roof, tripling eggs, and possibly attracting pests by in size from two pairs in 2013 to six pairs in 2014. We banded the leaving food remains. chicks from those pairs and hope to see them when they are ready In the context of an overall decline of 26% in our nesting to nest—in a few years. Plans for the future include creating a map wading bird population between 2010 and 2013, as measured by of migratory connectivity using banding data and re-sighting full nesting surveys completed in those years, the story of Goose observations.

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 6 12/11/14 9:55 AM The Harbor Heron Islands Just a few hundred yards across the East River from the Bronx’s Co-op City, providing a glimpse of wildlife to the towers’ 43,000 residents, lies Goose Island—a tiny, tear-drop-shaped spit of land that up until 2012 was home to a thriv- ing wading bird colony. Despite its proximity to high-density resi- dential development, this diminu- NYC Audubon’s 30 years of Harbor Herons nesting survey data provide a tive wild oasis was revealed by valuable baseline to monitor the health of our vulnerable wading bird colonies. NYC Audubon’s 2012 waterbird survey to host 111 breeding pairs of black-crowned night-herons, Research Associate Liz Craig has been leading our team to great and snowy egrets, and great band common terns nesting on several decommissioned piers on blue herons—a 12% increase in (off the southern tip of Manhattan). To date we numbers from the previous year’s have banded 147 common terns. In 2013 we banded four breeding counts. The health of the colony adults on Lima Pier. In 2014, all four returned to nest on that was to be short-lived, however; same pier. One 2014 adult had already been banded in March—in and its fate is both a sad reminder Argentina!—before arriving in New York City to breed. of what can happen if the New York City’s Harbor Heron islands We are stewards for Jamaica Bay’s migratory are not carefully protected—and a waterbirds and spawning horseshoe crabs clear call to action. For the sixth year in a row, NYC Audubon took to the shores of Jamaica Bay to monitor horseshoe crabs and shorebirds, with the help of dozens of citizen scientist volunteers. Each spring, shorebird species such as semipalmated sandpiper, ruddy turnstone, and red knot stop in Jamaica the beach had been suffering from high rates of erosion over Bay, where they fuel up the years, making the habitat less than ideal for horseshoe crab on horseshoe crab eggs spawning. Even after the beach was replenished with sand in before continuing their 2012 to mitigate erosion and prevent damage to the adjacent Belt northward migration Parkway, horseshoe crab numbers remained low at Plumb Beach to breeding grounds in West when it came time for spawning. the Arctic. Monitoring Between the 2013 and 2014 spawning seasons however, the number of spawning a breakwater and two groins were built to protect the beach horseshoe crabs each from future erosion. We wondered whether the combination of spring is an important additional sand and decreased wave activity due to the breakwater step in assessing how much of this valuable food resource exists for would attract more horseshoe crabs to Plumb Beach West, and our migrating shorebirds in Jamaica Bay, and whether this resource is questions were answered this year when almost 4,000 spawning changing over time. horseshoe crabs were counted at Plumb Beach West over the In the previous five years of horseshoe crab monitoring in entire season. Continued monitoring at Plumb Beach and other Jamaica Bay, our team of citizen scientists counted few if any sites, such as Dead Horse Bay and Big Egg Marsh, will be vital to horseshoe crabs on Plumb Beach West, despite consistently high understanding how changes to Jamaica Bay impact the horseshoe numbers on the eastern half of the beach. This western half of crab population upon which migrating shorebirds depend.

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 7 12/11/14 9:55 AM Last year, NYC Audubon delivered yet another successful year of these opportunities for our friends and members: Education & • Half-a-dozen free lectures at The Arsenal in featured work by experts in conservation and ornithological Important research • Over 150 trips and classes, reaching over 2,000 participants, in- Components of Outreach cluded 13 winter ecocruises and 10 summer ecocruises in local Conservation waterways such as New York Harbor and Jamaica Bay; regular Success local birding trips and overnight birding trips; and bird photogra- NYC Audubon We recruited “good eggs” phy meetings every other month nitially implemented by Audubon North Carolina and as part of NYC Audubon’s Pho- conducted over piloted in New York in 2013, the “Be a Good Egg” campaign tography Club 150 trips and classes, I addresses the dangers to beach-nesting birds from human • Free bird walks open to the pub- disturbance and incompatible recreation. The program seeks lic included 13 “Birding For reaching more than to increase awareness and community pride in our coastal bird Families” walks offered in part- populations and instill a conservation ethic. Specifically, the nership with the Central Park 2,000 participants initiative mobilizes volunteers and paid beach stewards to reduce Conservancy, 34 bird walks with human disturbance to migratory and beach-nesting shorebirds. Van Cortland Park Conservancy, and 14 walks with the Bryant Educational outreach to beach-goers is also an important Park Corporation component of conservation action. In coordination with the New • Ten free member events, open only to NYC Audubon members, York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Project Intern included bird walks in Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Terra Weiland spent her summer on the beach, using games and Park, a June donor ecocruise around the Brother Islands, and activities to enlist beach-goers at Arverne and at transportation to popular partner events such as the Annual to pledge to reduce threats to nesting and foraging beach birds. Shorebird Festival in Jamaica Bay The summer ended with more than 100 volunteers collecting a • Our quarterly print newsletter, The Urban Audubon, provided total of 1,726 pounds of garbage from ’s Orchard approximately 10,000 subscribers with educational articles Beach and Jamaica Bay’s Broad Channel Bridge Beach as part of about bird conservation in New York City International Coastal Cleanup Day. • The eGret enewsletter engaged a readership of 5,000 subscribers with timely conservation news and updates We educated and engaged young people • Our website, www.nycaudubon.org, Syrinx blog, and social me- throughout the City’s five boroughs dia outlets provided online outreach and education opportunities In 2014, NYC Audubon also accomplished the following additional outreach and education events: • Explored tidal pools at Hunts Point, Bronx with local residents and families during the June Fish Parade and July City of Water Day • Tweeted with young birders and their families at the Children’s Museum of the Arts over five weeks • Engaged younger members and prospects in the fashion and design world to count horseshoe crabs for shorebird research • Created a NYC Audubon KIDS Program for 8- to 12-year-olds, which includes two free bird walks a year and mailed KIDS Members packages of fun birding material

We provided education and enjoyment via bird walks, trips and classes, and publications As the only organization dedicated to the safeguarding and enjoyment of birds in New York City, NYC Audubon’s community Data collected from Christmas Bird Counts across the nation made National Audubon’s groundbreaking of supporters relies on us to provide fun, educational, and enriching 2014 Birds and Climate Change Report possible. bird walks, trips & classes, and publications throughout the year.

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 8 12/11/14 9:55 AM At the Wildlife Refuge, the post- Sandy fate of the breached West Policy & Pond is still being decided. NYC Audubon developed and submit- ted well-received concept plans Advocacy to recreate a freshwater pond. NYC Audubon would like to thank all those that have supported us in our ef- forts on this campaign, includ- We raised our voices, and we were heard. ing the offices of Congressman his past spring, NYC Audubon achieved a major victory in our ef- Hakeem Jeffries, Congressman forts to protect the wildlife and habitat of Gateway National Rec- Gregory Meeks, Congress- Treation Area. In August 2013, the National Park Service (NPS) woman Yvette Clarke, and released a draft of a new General Management Plan (GMP) for Gateway. Congressman Joseph Crowley. NYC Audubon submitted comments and proposed a set of recommen- Discussions with the newly dations. The final plan, released in May, included some of those recom- A new trap, band, and relocate formed Birders Coalition for program for snowy owls will mendations. Most important among them were continued access restric- continue at City airports Gateway were instrumental tions to the sensitive islands of Jamaica Bay and Staten Island. NPS’s in 2015. during our development of original plan called for allowing access to several Jamaica Bay Islands for the West Pond plan. camping, as well as for the construction of a dock on to allow visitation. Regardless of the time of year, human intrusion on these We stood our ground islands has the potential to harm birds and habitat. Historically, NPS has In December 2013, NYC Audubon responded quickly and restricted visitor access to all of these islands. NYC Audubon strongly forcefully to reports of culling of snowy owls at City airports, in supported the maintenance of this policy; ultimately, NPS agreed. Ad- partnership with Audubon New York. Via a joint letter, press re- ditionally, at the urging of NYC Audubon, a number of other critical lease, and grass-roots outreach, we urged the Port Authority of New habitat areas throughout Gateway were also rezoned in the final GMP York and New Jersey to employ non-lethal methods of control and to afford them greater protection. These areas include the Jamaica Bay relocation in lieu of culling. We also reached out to the New York Wildlife Refuge, Breezy Point tip, Bergen Beach, , State Department of Environmental Conservation as well as the and Plumb Beach, where NPS has cancelled a major recreation program Governor. NYC Audubon then partnered with the Port Authority in order to prioritize the protection of shorebirds and horseshoe crabs. in a new and successful trap, band, and relocate program.

Volunteers NYC Audubon’s more than 400 dedicated ur success would not be possible without our corps of stalwart volunteers, who enable all of volunteers contributed Oour conservation and education work. In addi- to over 6,750 hours tion to their invaluable contributions to our primary con- servation work via Project Safe Flight and the Waterbirds of volunteer work of NY Harbor programs, volunteers took part in many NYC Audubon’s passionate volunteer corps makes all of conservation events throughout the year, including woodland and saltmarsh res- our work possible. toration, beach clean-ups, and conservation outreach events. In all, more than 400 dedicated volunteers contributed over 6,750 hours of volunteer work to NYC Audubon’s mission over the last year.

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 9 12/11/14 9:55 AM Anneliese Harstick Marian Heiskell Dan Hendrick and Jimmy Support for Van Bramer John Hetrick Charles Hyman Anne Impellizzeri New York City Audubon Paul Impelluso Christopher Johnson Svetlana Kalusevic and Fiscal Year Ending Steve Nanz and Heidi John Shemilt Boris Ivkov March 2014 Steiner Peter Shen Mary Jane Kaplan NYC Audubon’s Fredric and Winnie Spar Carl Sorenson Jane Kendall and David conservation work and Virginia K. Stowe David Speiser Dietz education programs are Lenore and Peter Standish Robert and Carol Krinsky made possible by the CONSERVATIONISTS Antonia Stolper and Frederick Luce generous contributions of ($1,000 - $2,499) Bob Fertik Adrienne Lynch Looking members and friends. We’d Carol and Robert Mindy and Marc Utay Harry Maas like to express our gratitude Forward Abrahams Elizabeth Weinshel Evan Marks for the leadership support of Oakes and Louise Ames Frederic and Robin Karen McLaughlin and to 2015 the Leon Levy Foundation Robert Bate and Tracy Withington Mark Schubin With your and to all those who have Meade D. Bruce Yolton Andre Meade continued support, supported our work over the Adele Block Mary R. Parker past year. MaryJane Boland STEWARDS Warrie and James Price NYC Audubon Marsilia Boyle ($500 - $999) Betty and Michael Rauch will continue to AMERICAN KESTREL Nicole Brilliant Barbara Aubrey Luanne Rice address the major CIRCLE Abigail Angell Canfield Vivian Berger and Don Riepe conservation ($2,500 and above) Julia D’Amico and Stuart Michael Finkelstein Steven Rockefeller ANONYMOUS Rockefeller Peter and Sofia Blanchard Matthew Rymkiewicz challenges facing Claude and Lucienne Bloch Titia De Lange Priscilla Bijur and Charles Scheidt wild birds and Ronald and Jean Bourque Nancy Hager Gerry Kane Richard and Marjorie their habitat in Clifford Case Ellen Hand Douglas Blonsky Schneidman Judy Craig New York City. Jane Hassler Benice Brilliant Victoria Schonfeld Charles Denholm and Jill and Ken Iscol Mary Bruckmann Dimitri Sevastopoulo and Elizabeth Woods Valerie Jennings Miriam Cahn Catherine Rasenberger Joseph and Barbara Ellis Yukako Kawata James Carpenter Anne Sidamon-Eristoff Andrew Farnsworth Jared Keyes Mike and Lucy Danziger Vivek Sriram Philip Fried and Bruce Robert Kimtis Jean Dugan and Ben Ford Sukey Wagner Patterson Malcolm and Mary Morris Lisa Edwards Liza Wetanson and Marcia and Bruce Fowle Heidi Nitze Mary Farag Evan Marks Catherine Schragis Heller Mona Payton Alfred C. Finger John and Beth and Lloyd Heller Terry and Bill Pelster Martin and Susan Wittenberg Sarah Jeffords Cheryl Reich Goldstein Blaikie Worth Jeffrey Kimball and Pamela Donald and Genie Diana and Edward Greene Alexander Zagoreos Hogan Rice Linda Gui John Zucker Lauren and Ethan Lewis Rosenberg Betty Hamilton Klingsberg

Financials 59% Grants & Contributions 15% PROGRAM SERVICE REVENUE

SUPPORT & REVENUE 14% Special Events Grants & Contributions $524,361 59% 6% Membership Dues Program Service Revenue $136,752 15% Special Events $124,468 14% 5% RESERVED FROM PRIOR YEARS Membership Dues $54,850 6% Reserved from Prior Years $46,768 5% Total Support & Revenue $887,199 100%

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61626_NYC_Annual.indd 10 12/11/14 9:55 AM PATRONS Peter Joost Marina Wolkonsky-Galesi Gay Brookes Mark Feighn and ($250 - $499) Donald Kass Jennifer and Dora Woodruff Kevin P. Brooks Edith Starr Alberto Acosta and Rebecca Vivian Kaufmann Jane Zucker and Rafael Theresa Brown Laura Feinland Katz L. Wolfe Thomas Killip Campos Peter Buffington Lee Feuerstein Richard Andrias Neil Klar Claire Cammarata Sandra Fiebelkorn Peter Bickford Cynthia Kracauer SUPPORTERS Amy Campbell Joan Marie Flanigan Daniel A. Biederman Janice Laneve ($100-$249) Irving Cantor Peter Flint Hilary and Stephen Florence Lapidus ANONYMOUS Prudence Carlson Brian Floca Blumenreich Patricia Laufer Elizabeth Albert Mark Carney Patricia Forrest Elise Boeger Danyal Lawson Dolores Alcaide Claire Chappell Dall Forsythe Ned Boyajian Sylvie Le Blancq Pavlos Alexandrakis Kathleen and Neil Suzan Frecon Mary Brown Lee Leggett Mary Alkan Chrisman Linda Freeman Jim and Yuko Brumm Jonathan Lehman Divya Anantharaman Michael Christopher Jane Friedensohn George Bunn, Jr. Allen Levantin Marjorie and Kenneth Aran Christina Clayton Anita Friedman Mary Burkart Joan Lieberman Janet Asimov Vicky Cohen Alan Friedmann Albert and Brenda Butzel Margaret Lundin Matthew Atkinson Linda Collins Douglas Futuyma Anita J. Cabrera Patricia Marco Justine and Edward David Colodny John Geer March and Philip Hope Matthiessen and Auchincloss Nancy Comley Ilene Gersten Cavanaugh David Boorstin Marian Bach Renee Cooley Naola Gersten-Woolf Hamilton Chase Helen Mattin Andrea Barbieri Rachel Cowan Lorraine Gesualdi Noel and Baukje Cohen E.J. McAdams Irene Bareis Erin Crotty Susan Gibson Rebekah Creshkoff Jean McCarroll John Barrett Katie Cusack Larry Gile Flynn Delaney Henrietta Montgomery Catherine Barron Kathryn Cusumano Beatrice Goelet Manice Eve Dorfzaun Douglas Murray and Jane Bass Emily Damron Jennifer Gordon Kevin and D.G. Duffy Peggy Blumenthal Jill Bauer Barbara Davidson Marlene Gordon Joan Dunham Cheryl Payer Barbara Belknap John and Judy Day Ana Goshko Paul J. Elston and Jean Pettibone Robert Bender and Leslie Day and Jim Nishiura Joan Gossner Frances Beinecke Christina Reik Loretta Nash Virginia de Liagre John C. Gray Jr. Margot Ernst Donna Roberts Mary Anne Benjamin John Dembeck Barbara Green Cynthia Furlinger Gary Schragis Judith Berger Stephen Dewhurst Patricia Grew Frances Geller Victoria Shaw Mark Berger Nina Dioletis Deborah Griffin Nancy Goeschel John Steinberg Geoffrey and Barbara Robert Disch Betsy Gross Michael and Anne Golden Tom and Wendy Berresford Richard Doll and Nancy Leslie Haber Tom Green Stephenson Mary C. Birchard Heidel Mahlon and Mary Jean Hale Robert and Cassandra Virginia Stotz Kyle and Debbie Bisceglie Peter Dorosh Jennifer Hamilton Greene Joan Susha Nancy Bittner Boker and Susanna Doyle Peter and Linda Harrington A. Caroline Greenleaf Rochelle Thomas Priscilla Blakemore Kathy Drake Jessica and Matthew Harris Carolyn Grossner Irene and Richard Van Slyke Ardith Bondi Dorothea Drayton Norma Harris Kathleen Heenan and Lynne Veitch Michael Bonifanti Eva Eckert Daryl Hartshorne Clarence W. Olmstead Bruce Volpe Robin Bossert Jerry Edgerton Kay Haxton Alice Henkin and John Katherine Von Hartz Anthony Bracciante Joan Eliasoph Marian Heller Nicholich Alan Wanzenberg Julia Bradford Constance Ellis Thierry Herbert Michael Hirschhorn and Philip Warner Alexander Brash Patricia and Peter Elsbach Gary Herman Jimena Martinez Irene C. Warshauer Mary Braza Barbara Erskine Susan Hilferty Karl Holtzschue Chris Wasserstein Lorna Brittan-Smithand Alexander Ewing Eleanor Hoagland Rita Houlihan Russell and Megan Wiese Benjamin Smith Michael and Ellen Hoffman

37% Conservation

33% Education

Expenses 18% Fundraising Conservation $330,153 37% Management & General Education $289,269 33% 6%

Fundraising $161,756 18% 6% Membership Management & General $54,402 6% Membership $51,619 6% Total Expenses $887,199 100%

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