Annual Report to Members | 2011

The cover of this report captures a rare moment with a We’re collaborating with teachers, scientists, and Spoon-billed Sandpiper and his chick on the arctic tundra. students internationally as well—through K–12 curricula, Spoon-billed Sandpipers are one of the most distinctive undergraduate and graduate research projects around the shorebirds on the planet—yet most people have never seen or world, and workshops to build conservation capacity in heard of them. Fewer than 200 remain in the world. Their Latin American countries. Our websites reach more than 6 survival depends on conditions on their nesting grounds in million people in 187 countries, providing bird information, Russia, migratory stopover routes in Kamchatka, China, and sounds, and videos from our Macaulay Library, and powerful Korea, and wintering areas in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, multimedia productions that shed light on pressing wildlife and Bangladesh. conservation issues. Like Spoon-billed Sandpipers, tens of thousands of birds How does this all add up? Please browse the pages of across the world are ambassadors for global conservation. this report to find out how we work with partners to help It takes the will of nations to save them. Yet all too often, threatened species such as Golden-winged Warblers; aid so little is known about them—and so little conveyed to public agencies in prioritizing conservation across habitats the public and policy makers—that the through the State of the Birds report; advise the energy A Message from potential for conservation goes unrealized. industry about how to minimize harm to wildlife; and Recognizing the need for a sea change, galvanize international conservation efforts by bringing the Cornell Lab of Ornithology works at attention to the needs of Spoon-billed Sandpipers and John Fitzpatrick all levels to increase the understanding other birds. Take a behind-the-scenes peek at a soon-to- and protection of birds and other wildlife. We advance be launched citizen-science project called YardMap, and scientific knowledge, work with partners to identify the find out how we’re developing sophisticated techniques most important steps needed to safeguard ecosystems, and combining sound, radar, and observational data to forecast empower people of all ages to learn and conserve. the migrations of birds. Scientists, educators, and students throughout the Cornell As I look to the exciting work ahead, I am reminded Lab of Ornithology are doing this by reaching across the that we couldn’t do any of this without you and our many globe. This year, birders around the world entered data into partners, collaborators, and supporters. Thank you for eBird, lighting up the global map with new sightings every enabling us to continue building the most powerful tools passing hour. Our autonomous recording units returned for science and conservation, advancing knowledge, and Cover: One of the world’s last acoustic data from locations as far-flung as Gabon, Ireland, amplifying conservation across the world. remaining Spoon-billed Sandpipers with his chick, photographed in Alaska, and the Gulf of Mexico—helping us keep the pulse of July 2011 on the coastal tundra of the Russian Far East. Inside cover: endangered forest elephants, whales, and birds by monitoring Sincerely, A male Spoon-billed Sandpiper their sounds. From Australia, the Arctic, and Argentina to just after arriving on the breeding grounds. Above: A Spoon-billed New Guinea and Siberia, our researchers used the latest Sandpiper nest with eggs. As part of an international expedition to technologies, including remote video cams, DNA analyses, conserve this critically endangered John W. Fitzpatrick, Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director species, the Cornell Lab of migration tracking devices, and supercomputing techniques Ornithology’s multimedia producer, to understand nature’s complexity and reveal new clues about Gerrit Vyn, captured these photos and the first high-definition footage how to sustain the diversity of life. 3 of Spoon-billed Sandpipers on their breeding grounds. The Cornell Lab is using scientific expertise, combined with powerful multimedia, to galvanize international conservation efforts. Citizen Science Across the World

This year, we celebrate 25 years One Planet, 10,000 Bird Species Linking Yards Into Landscapes for Birds of Project FeederWatch and In a landmark year for eBird, participants logged the transformative power of more than 1.3 million observation hours in the field, The Cornell Lab is citizen science. Participants now bringing the worldwide total to 9,256 bird species beta-testing YardMap, reported. Data from 107,000 locations in the United a new online citizen- contribute citizen-science data States were the basis science project funded to the Cornell Lab from nearly for the 2011 State by the National of the Birds report, Science Foundation every country, tracking the pulse highlighting the (NSF) to help people conservation value see the impact of of nature through the movements of public lands. and abundance of birds. their actions on Meanwhile, in just habitat for birds. Participants zoom in Baltimore Oriole summer distribution the first year of With leading-edge tools to global data entry, on satellite images to construct maps of their display data in real time, we eBirders are lighting up maps of bird own yard, including features engage hundreds of thousands species distributions such as lawns, native plants, or feeders. Scientists and participants alike can see how yards connect with one of people in the process of across hemispheres through time. another into larger landscapes supporting birds and science and use advanced other wildlife. “YardMap is a collaborative project that combines the power of social networks with citizen computing to investigate “It’s amazing to Winter Distribution in Costa Rica witness how eBirders science,” said Janis Dickinson, the Lab’s director the most challenging are transforming of Citizen Science. “It will help us what it means to go birding,” said project understand how best to use these environmental co-leader Chris Wood. “Even more amazing tools to aid people in enhancing questions. is how the collective efforts of thousands conservation practices and of birders are transforming science and outcomes—at home and conservation.” across the continent.”

With worldwide reports, eBird maps now show the seasonal movements of birds across their ranges. Above, reports of Baltimore Orioles (purple dots) during the breeding 4 season in the United States and Canada (top), and during winter in Costa Rica (bottom). This year, citizen-science participants sent us their bird observations from 170 countries. Ambassadors for the Birds

After eBird went global last year, we were astonished by the network of volunteers that quickly formed to get eBird off the ground in their own countries.

Tommy Pedersen from the United Arab Emirates submitted 22,516 checklists from personal and historical records. He also reviews incoming data.

The United Arab Emirates now has one of the most impressive data sets of any country, with complete charts and maps for more than Students in Puerto Rico participate in Celebrate Urban Birds, combining bird 530 species. watching, science, and the arts.

Citizen Science, Transcendent “I am especially impressed with Stars, butterflies, frogs, and fossils…citizen- the ease of use science projects have proliferated into hundreds of opportunities around the world for people to connect and presentation with nature and contribute to science. The Cornell of data in eBird. Lab’s Rick Bonney is a founding father of citizen This is truly a new science as it’s practiced today—fostering educational Project outcomes for the participants who gather the data and FeederWatch era for all birders, research results for the scientists who analyze it. data show that cold temperatures as well as an amazing database for With NSF funding, Bonney’s team is helping to in the Northeast have scientists and amateurs alike.” advance the emerging field of citizen science a greater effect on limiting the distributions by establishing best practices, tools, and of birds than lack of food. — Tommy Pedersen, networks for professionals to use and Analyses also suggest that Dubai, United Arab Emirates build upon. Now in the works: a newly distributions are affected by improved Citizen Science Central how well a species adapts website for practitioners—and tools to urbanization, a factor to 5 be considered in studies of to measure the impact of public climate change. participation in science. Research Across the World

Science is at the heart of the What’s behind the intriguing How do human activities affect Cornell Lab of Ornithology. behaviors of birds and their birds and other wildlife? diversity? From curiosity to discovery to Researchers at the Cornell Lab study how environmental insight­, scientific study deepens Scientists at the Cornell Lab use DNA analyses, video stressors such as pollution, energy development, and our appreciation of nature and techniques, tracking devices, and ingenuity to reveal other activities affect wildlife and ecosystem health. more than the eye can see. reveals the actions needed ALTERED SONG ALL IN THE FAMILY PCBs are chemicals known to to protect our planet and the Why do Acorn cause neurological damage and diversity of life. Woodpeckers help raise mimic hormones. Graduate young that aren’t their student Sara DeLeon has found own? A new study found preliminary results suggesting it’s not because they that PCBs have affected birds’ ability to sing along a gain parenting skills or contaminated area of New York’s Hudson River. benefits from an extended A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK stay with family. By Graduate student Taza Schaming uses radio tracking helping to raise relatives, to follow Clark’s Nutcrackers in the Greater Yellowstone they perpetuate the Ecosystem. She is documenting how nutcrackers are family genes. affected by declines in whitebark pines. Her goal: to A HISTORY OF WARBLERS identify management Scientists at the Cornell Lab have generated the first actions that will

OXFORD AVIAN BIOLOGY SERIES O OXFORD AVIAN BIOLOGY SERIES A new book by improve habitats. • SerieS editor: t.r. Birkhead FrS • ABS complete evolutionary tree for the wood-warblers. d

In nature there exist three main types of biotic interactions between hondt the Cornell Lab’s individuals of different species: competition, predation, and mutualism. All three exert powerful selection pressures, and all three shape communities. However, the question of how important interspecific The results have spurred extensive changes to the competition in nature really is remains controversial and unresolved. This book provides a critical and exhaustive review of the topic. André Dhondt Although the examples are limited mostly to birds (interspecific competition and community structure have been exhaustively studied Interspec I InterspecIfIc in this animal group, and a lot of experimental data are available), the conclusions reached have a far broader relevance to population classification and provided new insights on questions ecologists in general. The book reasons that the coexistence of species examines how is the result of both past and presently on-going interspecific competition. competItIon Furthermore, understanding the importance of interspecific competition in natural systems will be increasingly important when modelling the effects of climate change on populations. f I c In BIrds competition such as why there are so many warbler This accessible text will be suitable for professional avian biologists and

ornithologists as well as graduate students of avian ecology, evolution, c and conservation. ompet I influences the species, and how some species t I on traits of bird I n B I became migratory.

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2 ecological SWALLOWS OF THE AMERICAS ISBN 978-0-19-958902-9 1 communities. 9 780199 589029 ANDRé A. DHONDT Scientists across the hemisphere collaborate on studies of nine species of swallows in Golondrinas de las Americas, a project funded by NSF. 6

Photos left to right, top to bottom: Magnificent Riflebird. Ed Scholes and team in New Guinea. Acorn Woodpeckers. Song Sparrow. Tree Swallow. Clark’s Nutcracker. Taza Schaming with radio-tracking equipment. Wood Thrush. Cornell Lab researchers study wildlife in 28 countries from all 7 continents. Voiceprints from the Sky

Around the world, autonomous recording units from the Cornell Lab are listening for wildlife. With hundreds of thousands of hours of recordings, a major challenge is processing the data to quickly find and quantify the sounds of each species.

Now a two-year, $1.25 million gift from Spectrograms of nocturnal flight calls for five warbler species. the Kenneth L. Harder Trust will kick-start development of a new system that “trains” computers to look for the “voiceprints” of THE “WEATHER CHANNEL” FOR BIRDS How can we reveal a new particular species, such as nocturnally migrating understanding of birds across On a given night, can we predict what birds will Wood Thrushes and Veeries. migrate, and when and where they’ll go? The Cornell landscapes? Lab and Oregon State University have received a This generous gift was made possible by the $2.2 million NSF grant to develop a system that will Harder family: Scott Harder (trustee), Karen Ornithologists are combining forces with statisticians forecast bird migration in the United States. It will (Tillman) Harder (’81), Liv (’11), and Donald. and computer scientists, using high-performance use weather data, radar, observations from eBird, and Kenneth Harder, Scott’s uncle, was a lifelong computing techniques to understand large-scale the nocturnal flight calls of birds to generate real- birder. patterns in nature. The results can help show how time estimates of migration. bird populations respond to land use, climate, and “This acoustic monitoring project is essential other environmental changes. to document human impacts on migratory bird and other animal populations,” says MAPS IN MOTION Scott Harder. With support from the National Science Foundation, Leon Levy Foundation, “It’s one of the most significant and exciting and Wolf Creek Foundation, new research gifts in the Lab’s history,” says analyses of eBird data are generating Sean Scanlon, the Lab’s senior director unprecedented, animated maps of Development and Philanthropy. “It’s showing the distributions of birds enabling the Lab to do what we do best: throughout the year. At right, a listen to the world and use what we learn map based on eBird data showing to advance conservation.” the distribution of Wood Thrushes in summer. 7 Conservation Across the World

The Cornell Lab provides the Understand A TALE OF TWO SPECIES DNA analysis by undergraduate best available scientific data A RARE FIND Nicholas Sly and collaborators to help government agencies, The Black-capped Petrel is a confirmed that the Gray-crowned critically endangered species. Palm-Tanager (top image at right) industries, and conservation Fewer than 2,000 remain. With is Haiti’s only endemic bird organizations make decisions support from the U.S. species, distinct from the more Fish and Wildlife widespread Black-crowned for wildlife protection. Service and the Palm-Tanager (lower image at John D. and Catherine T. right). The finding underscores MacArthur Foundation, graduate the need to protect reserves in student Jim Goetz and collaborators a country where less than 2% are gathering crucial conservation of native forest remains. data on Hispaniola. This summer, ON THE BRINK for the first time, they observed and monitored the growth of a chick at the nest. Graduate student Yula Kapetanakos searches for Slender- SOUND CONSERVATION billed and White-rumped vultures As demand rises for oil, gas, and wind energy, in Cambodia. Once numbering the Cornell Lab helps government agencies and in the millions, these species industries identify where wildlife is at risk from declined to near extinction noise pollution, habitat alteration, and after the drug diclofenac The Helmeted Woodpecker is direct mortality. The Lab’s Bioacoustics was used for livestock, one of the rarest and least known woodpeckers in the world. Cornell Research Program develops acoustic poisoning vultures feeding Lab scientist Martjan Lammertink technologies to monitor and protect on carrion. Yula is using moved to Argentina this year to help identify habitat restoration whales around the world. DNA analyses to estimate measures in logged forests. population sizes for conservation efforts.

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We conduct conservation research and monitoring in 19 countries around the world. Conservation

Protect BEYOND OUR BORDERS Leadership We increase international A FUTURE FOR GOLDEN-WINGS conservation capacity by Cornell Lab scientists and partners will soon release sharing tools and expertise the first rangewide conservation plan for rapidly in other countries. With Thanks to a generous gift from Robert declining Golden-winged support from the John D. Schumann, the Cornell Lab has opened Warblers. The plan was made and Catherine T. MacArthur a long-desired position for a faculty- possible with help from citizen- Foundation and other science participants and supporters, the Cornell level director of Conservation Science. support from the National Fish Lab conducts workshops in This generous gift, matched by Cornell & Wildlife Foundation and U.S. Argentina, Cuba, Dominican University, is a transformative step in Fish & Wildlife Service. Republic, Haiti, Guatemala, and Mexico to advance the expanding the Lab’s leadership and THIS LAND IS OUR LAND study and protection of birds. conservation impact. The 2011 State of the Birds report revealed distributions of hundreds of bird species on public lands, illuminating The Lab’s Macaulay Library provides unparalleled sound and video recordings from around the world, used in “Bob’s passion for birds is unfailing,” ways that agencies can manage habitats for birds on conservation research, monitoring, and education. More 650 million acres of land. The analyses by Cornell Lab than 175,000 audio and 50,000 video recordings are said Scott Sutcliffe, the Lab’s stewardship researchers were made possible in part by NSF, the Leon accessible for free online. director. “This new faculty position Levy Foundation, and the Wolf Creek Foundation. follows Bob’s many years of support for the Lab’s conservation initiatives and expresses his love for birds and trust in the Lab’s staff and faculty.”

A search for the Robert F. Schumann Faculty Fellow is now underway.

The Elephant Listening Project collects and analyzes acoustic data on endangered forest elephants in Africa. Above, our collaborators in Gabon prepare 9 equipment to monitor elephants threatened by illegal hunting. Education Across the World

At the Cornell Lab, the world For K–12 Students With the Crossing Boundaries curriculum, is a classroom where everyone Funded in part by the National middle- and high-school can be a student of nature. Our Science Foundation, the Cornell students use GPS, GIS, and Lab’s educational programs help Google Earth to site a new educational programs reach kids transform curiosity into biodiveristy preserve in the people in 70 countries—children, science and discovery. Brazilian Amazon, investigate wildlife and cattle management Students explore birds and teenagers, university students, in Kenya, and compare bird science with the BirdSleuth curriculum. populations between the professionals, and people Customized versions of BirdSleuth are United States and Mexico. migrating to Mexico, Guatemala, Costa who simply love birds. It’s our Crossing Boundaries is a joint Rica, and the Caribbean, thanks to federal project of the Cornell Lab commitment and our passion to grants and gifts from Lab donors. and Hobart and William make the best resources, Delving into the Cornell Smith Colleges. technology, and training Lab’s new Sea of Sound curriculum, middle- available to all. Our and high-school For Aspiring Biologists goal: to increase students hear an underwater world alive At the Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity, by magnitudes with the sounds of blue whales, students are in every part of the building—learning snapping shrimp, and drum the world’s joy, from scientists, extracting DNA, measuring fish. Using sound and video from around the world, specimens, analyzing sounds, sharing the latest data understanding, they investigate how animals produce sound they’ve brought back from oceans, fields, and forests. and debate the effects of noise pollution. The and conservation Each year, new students arrive with fresh questions bilingual program Celebrate Urban Birds and ideas, and new graduates move on to discover, to of nature. connects people of all ages with birds and teach, and to inspire others. conservation through citizen science, the arts, and habitat improvement. Recently, Cornell Lab scientists mentor more than 100 partners have launched undergraduate and graduate students each similar programs in Cuba, year. Beyond Cornell, the Lab’s Guatemala, Colombia, Online Research in Biology project Chile, and Uruguay. offers lesson plans to help faculty engage students in research using citizen-science databases. 10 Our educational programs reach people in 70 countries.

The Athena Fund: For Lifelong Learners Pursuing Answers to Nature’s Mysteries Since 1972, bird enthusiasts from around the world have taken the Established by an anonymous donor in 2010, the Home Study Course in Bird Athena Fund helps graduate students investigate Biology and our recent online course, Courtship and Rivalry nature’s mysteries around the world. Thanks to the in Birds. Athena Fund, seven students pursued research in Home Study Course scholarships five countries last year, and additional students will from Lab donors have been be supported this year. awarded to 32 students in 15 countries from Bangladesh to In the tropical mountains of Papua New Guinea, Honduras, opening opportunities Ben Freeman is investigating why bird species for bird study that might not tend to occupy narrow zones—sometimes otherwise be possible. Many go limited to a 2,000-foot elevational range. This on to share what they learn in year, Ben joined a team surveying a mountain their home countries, range on the Huon Peninsula and found six creating a bird species previously unknown there. powerful ripple effect “The Athena Fund has of expanding helped me conduct field For Professionals knowledge and work with promising early conservation. results, and helped me We put the latest tools and techniques learn a new language, into the hands of educators, researchers, Tok Pisin,” Ben said. “It’s and conservationists through workshops allowed me to spread the idea of a conservation for professionals. Scientists from around ethic to people with limited contact with the world learn sophisticated sound- the outside world, and to explore one of recording and analysis techniques to aid the earth’s most biologically interesting their studies and conservation efforts. yet largely unknown regions.” Educators attend free BirdSleuth workshops about connecting kids through migratory birds.

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Left page, top to bottom: Home Study Course scholarship recipient Karim Kara, from Kenya. Project PigeonWatch participants, New York City. Lab director John Fitzpatrick with high-school students on Young Birders field trip, Hammond Hill State Forest, New York. BirdSleuth students in Costa Rica (2). Yellow-billed Magpie. Right page, top to bottom: Celebrate Urban Birds participants, Puerto Rico. Sapsucker Woods Migration Celebration, Ithaca, New York. Conservation workshop, Colombia. Ben Freeman in New Guinea with a Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise. BRAVO! 79,168 photos A Community for Birds contributed to Birdshare “eBird All About Birds totally, totally rocks, “ Thank you for making this superb collection of bird research so readily and I’m doing citizen available to bird lovers everywhere. science, yay me! My appreciation and sense of wonder have been heightened, and All About I mean, yay you guys.” Birds is sure to become a major distraction—albeit a delightful one— —Luisa Serrano, for me in days to come!” eBirder —Sheri Hartstein

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Bartels Science Illustration Program Ted Parker’s 52,191 10,762 Facebook Fans historic

“I always enjoyed birding but now I “ This internship is the most valuable experience I have ever love it. I have learned so much. I look recordings had as a natural history artist.” forward to the posts every day.” — Fritzi Wirth, Intern, Bartels Science Illustration Program —Heidi Ebel, Facebook fan Neotropical Birds now online. Thanks to Our 325 Contributors

www.facebook.com/cornellbirds www.Neotropical.birds.cornell.edu www.MacaulayLibrary.org “ I feel very lucky that I have reached “Wow! NestWatch a place in my life where I am able to follow my passion, where I can I just finished my 23rd make important contributions to conservation and ecology, and can FeederWatch season! learn so much every day, while having the opportunity to teach others.”

I still enjoy participating —Taza Schaming, Cornell graduate student 4 Days / 92,218 Checklists as much as I did when

I first started. Thanks Participants monitored for continuing to 84 species this year. The count? 21,000 eggs & 14,000 fledglings provide this wonderful

excuse to spend a lot of www.NestWatch.org www.BirdCount.org time watching the birds

in my yard. And all in

the name of science!” Ted Parker’s “ The citizen-science activity —Victoria Runnoe, was pretty cool because we saw 10,762 FeederWatcher how even in the same garden some plants attracted a lot of historic birds and some didn’t. The installation of the bird garden was a lot of hard work but it recordings was cool how we were planting stuff that would attract birds.” now online. —Owen Kay, age 15, Celebrate Urban Birds

www.feederwatch.org www.CelebrateUrbanBirds.org Recently, I had the pleasure of spending a day at An Estate Gift Can the Johnson Center here in Sapsucker Woods with a member who has been with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for 50 years. This gentleman from Provide for You, Your Texas has loved birds all of his life and signed up for the very first issue of The Living Bird annual in 1962. We traded stories with Greg Budney in the Family, and the Lab Macaulay Library, Ken Rosenberg in Conservation Science, Tim Gallagher, editor-in-chief of Living Bird, and John Fitzpatrick, director of the Lab. In that short afternoon, I learned an amazing amount about the Lab’s history and meaning—and ended up thanking the visitor not only for his amazingly generous five decades of support but for sharing his knowledge and passion as well.

It was a powerful reminder of why and how the Cornell Lab works. Although we are a proud research unit of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, we are self-funded, driven by more than 40,000 wonderfully philanthropic donors from across the country who believe in our mission. Whether you have been with the Lab for 50 years, weeks, or days, I would like you to take a moment to consider including the Cornell Lab in your estate plans. Fundamentally, this is an important statement of your values. Like everyone who works here, and the 40,000 other people who financially support the Lab, we hope you believe that science, conservation, and engagement of legions of students and citizen-science participants will provide hope for the future of birds and biodiversity. Including the Lab in your will is very easy (see example on page 15). In addition, because we are part of Cornell University, we have some of the best planned giving and estate professionals on staff who would be happy to help advise about gifts of real estate, lead trusts, gift annuities that pay you, and many more options. Most of all, thank you. As I was reminded by my visitor from Texas, the Lab was created by the passion, gifts, and commitment of hundreds of thousands of people who believe in the common mission we have to save birds and biodiversity on this planet. I hope you will consider making a statement about that commitment in your estate plans too. Sincerely,

Sean Scanlon Senior Director, Development and Philanthropy 14 (607) 254-1105; [email protected]

Photos left to right, top to bottom: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. Cornell undergraduate Lena Samsonenko in Morgens Observatory, Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity. The Lab’s magazines, 2011 and 1962. Tree Swallow. Linda Kramer. Parabolic recording equipment, ca. 1935. Audio curator Greg Budney with handheld parabola. The Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity. Estate Planning: A Gift that Lives On A Lasting Legacy A generous bequest from Linda Kramer, a longtime member and dear friend, who It’s easy to include the Cornell Lab in your estate plans, passed away recently, will enable the especially through a bequest or life income agreement. To make Cornell Lab of Ornithology to create five a bequest through your will, simply include the language: “I give new graduate student and bequeath the sum of $ (or % of my residuary fellowships. Linda made estate) to Cornell University, an educational institution in Ithaca, NY, for the Lab of Ornithology to be used in support of its charitable this bequest because purposes.” Doing so can perpetuate your interest in birds and of her abiding love for support of the Lab forever. birds, her appreciation for the Cornell Lab, To learn more about estate planning opportunities that benefit you and the Lab, please call Scott Sutcliffe at (607) 254-2424 or Sean and her commitment Scanlon at (607) 254-1105. The Lab is pleased to acknowledge such to nurturing the aspirations of ornithology friends in perpetuity as members of the Sapsucker Woods Society. students. Linda and her husband, Samuel, set the stage for this magnificent gift through their annual giving to the Lab, providing significant annual support for students. We are saddened by Linda’s death, but her legacy will live on through The Samuel and Linda Kramer Graduate Student Fellowships. Worthy students now and into the future will benefit from Linda’s love of birds and commitment to education.

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Edward W. Rose H. Laurance Fuller Edwin H. Morgens John Fitzpatrick* Mary Guthrie (Chairman); President Retired Co-Chairman, BP Founder and Chairman, Ph.D., Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director, Marketing Administrative and Owner, Cardinal Amoco, l.c. (Cornell ’61) Morgens, Waterfall, Director and Professor of Steve Kelling Investment Company Vintiadis, & Co. Inc. Ecology and Evolutionary Ronald R. Hoy* Director, Information (Cornell ’63) Biology Andrew H. Bass* Ph.D., (ex officio); Professor, Science Board, Program Ph.D., (ex officio); Neurobiology and Behavior, H. Charles Price Rick Bonney Walter Koenig* Professor, Neurobiology Cornell University Chairman, H.C. Price Director, Program Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Bird and Behavior, Associate Company Development and Imogene P. Johnson Population Studies and Vice Provost for Research, Evaluation Directors, and Civic Leader, Elizabeth T. Rawlings Neurobiology and Behavior Cornell University Conservationist, Writer and Translator, John Bowman Irby Lovette* Robert B. Berry S. C. Johnson Company Civic Leader Director, Multimedia Ph.D., Director, Fuller Retired CEO, U.S. Liability (Cornell ’52) Productions Cornell Faculty Maria Schneider Evolutionary Biology Insurance Companies Eric J. Jolly Jazz Composer Adriane Callinan Program and Associate James R. Carpenter Ph.D., President, Science Senior Director, Professor, Ecology and Julia M. Schnuck President and CEO, Museum of Minnesota Administration and Business Evolutionary Biology Conservationist, Civic Wild Birds Unlimited Operations Austin H. Kiplinger Leader (Cornell ’70) Ken Rosenberg Scott V. Edwards Chairman, Kiplinger Miyoko Chu Ph.D., Director, Robert F. Schumann Ph.D., Professor, Organismic Washington Editors Ph.D., Senior Director, Conservation Science Trustee and Chairman, and Evolutionary Biology, (Cornell ’39) Communications Schumann Center for Sean Scanlon Harvard University Kathryn M. Kiplinger Media and Democracy Christopher Clark* Senior Director, Alexander “Hap” Ellis III Co-Head, U.S. Corporate Ph.D., Imogene Powers Development and Jennifer P. Speers General Partner, Banking, Scotia Capital Johnson Director, Philanthropy Conservationist, Rockport Capital (The Bank of Nova Scotia) Bioacoustics Research Philanthropist Scott Sutcliffe (Cornell ’77) Program, and Senior William T. Ellison Director of Annual Fund David W. Winkler* Scientist, Neurobiology and Ph.D., CEO and Chief David S. Litman and Stewardship Ph.D., (ex officio), Behavior Scientist, Marine CEO, Consumer Club, Inc. Professor, Ecology and Nancy Trautmann Acoustics, Inc. (Cornell BA ’79, JD ’82) André Dhondt* Evolutionary Biology, Ph.D., Director, Education Ph.D., Director, Bird Russell B. Faucett Linda R. Macaulay Cornell University Population Studies, Michael Webster* General Partner, Barrington Cornell Lab of Ornithology * Cornell University Faculty and Edwin H. Morgens Ph.D., Director, Macaulay Partners Research Associate, Professor of Ornithology, Library and Robert G. Engel Birdsong Recordist John H. Foote Ecology and Evolutionary Professor of Ornithology, Co-Founder, TransCore Claudia Madrazo de Biology Neurobiology and Behavior (Cornell ’74) Hernández Janis Dickinson* * Cornell University Faculty Founder and Director, Alan J. Friedman Ph.D., Arthur A. Allen La Vaca Independiente Ph.D., Consultant in Director of Citizen Science museum development and William K. 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Renshaw Dr. Joan Brenchley-Jackson Swarovski Optik North America Ms. Clover M. Drinkwater Mr. Thomas S. Knight, Jr. Ms. Frances M. Rew Cedar Elm Fund of Dallas Wild Birds Unlimited, Inc. $1,000 to $4,999 Lauren Dudley Ms. Victoria F. Korth Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Williams David Adkison Mr. Michael Dumont Dr. Donald E. Kroodsma Ms. Deborah A. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Russell Faucett Ms. Jane Yolen Ann and Philip Aines Ms. Nancy P. Durr Jeffrey and Elizabeth Kurtz Dr. and Mrs. Frank H. T. Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. H. Laurance Fuller Mr. Ferris Akel III Mrs. Elizabeth Edgell Donald and Deborah Lauper Judy and Stuart Richardson Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Richard $5,000 to $9,999 Ms. Paulette Allemand Major Theodore H. Eiben Mr. and Mrs. Randolph S. Little Mrs. Dorothy W. Rinaldo Halberstadt Mr. John Alexander and Mrs. Debra D. Anderson Dr. Bruce A. Eissner and Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Dr. Dean R. Rising Mrs. Imogene P. Johnson Mrs. Emily Fisher Anonymous (5) Mrs. Judith P. Eissner Foundation Robert J. Laskowski Foundation

Donors Leon Levy Foundation Mr. John E. Alexander Ms. Susan Avery and El Deseo Foundation Philip and Caroline Loughlin Ms. Rhonda Rochambeau Claudia Madrazo de Hernández Ms. Margaret R. Barton Mr. Joseph Holmes Dr. Donna Esposito and Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Louis Rocky River Capital Partners Ms. Mary Ann Mahoney Beim Foundation Ms. Janet Baker Dr. William Ross Mr. C. James Luther Mr. Larry Roel Mrs. Julia M. Schnuck Mrs. Mary L. Carlsen Ms. Alice-Ann Bandoni Professor and Mrs. Howard E. Evans Mr. and Mrs. David B. Magee Dr. William L. Rutherford Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schumann Mr. and Mrs. Judson M. Dayton Mr. John M. Beard, Jr. John and Molly Fitzpatrick Ms. Carolyn Mangeng and Mr. Gary Rydstrom The Ivy Fellowship Mr. and Mrs. V. Richard Eales Birds In The Hand, LLC Gale and Stanley Flagg Mr. Walter Spall Sage Geodetic, LLC Mrs. Jennifer P. Speers Ms. Norma Edsall Mrs. Esther S. Bondareff Mr. Samuel C. Fleming Mr. Evan Marks Mrs. Carolyn W. Sampson Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elcock Mr. Stanley Bowden Fletcher Bay Foundation Dr. Richard Marshak and Ms. Sara Saplin Dr. Andrea Landsberg Joseph and Felicia Weber Mr. Andrew Farnsworth and Mr. and Mrs. William B. Boyd Ms. Natalia G. Garcia Ms. Maria Leonor Sardinha Mr. David E. Mattingley Ms. Patricia Ryan Mr. Philip A. Bradley Ms. Barbara M. Garlinghouse Mr. Herman R. Schenkel, Jr. Mr. Michael Matuson $10,000 to $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Clifton C. Garvin, Jr. Ms. Cori A. Brown Mr. Floyd H. Gilles Peter and Christine Schluter Mr. Robert Glass and Ms. Victoria May Patricia and Richard Schramm Dr. Steve Adelson and Ms. Adelaide P. Gomer Ms. Magalen O. Bryant Ms. Jean B. Harries Ms. Bronwen Nishikawa Dr. Leigh McBride and Ms. Paula M. Schutte Mrs. Ellen G. Adelson Kenneth and Karen Buchi Dr. Richard McCormack Mr. and Mrs. Elliott D. Hillback Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet Mr. Barry K. Schwartz Anonymous (2) Ms. Amanda Burden Thomas and Linda McCarthy Mrs. Moira H. Hintsa Ms. Annette L. Gosnell Mrs. Margaret F. Scott Mr. Rex J. Bates Ms. Susan Burkhardt Ms. Mary Ellen McCrossen Mr. and Mrs. David Junkin Mrs. Bernice Graham Mr. Leroy W. Sinclair C. H. Stuart Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William D. Burrows Ms. Winifred P. McDowell Kaytee Products, Inc. Ms. Wendy Graham Ms. Mary Ann Siri Mr. Ronald L. Clendenen Ms. Ellen P. Cabot Ms. Marjorie McGranahan Mrs. Jeanie Kilgour Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Grainger Mrs. Susan L. Sloan Elisabeth C. Dudley Dr. Tom Cade Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Meinig Mr. Austin H. Kiplinger Mr. William F. Gratz ‘53 Miss Pamela M. Smith Mrs. Louisa Duemling Dudley and Curtis Carlson Ms. Madeline Miles Samuel and Linda Kramer Ms. Joan M. Guerin Ms. Susan Sollins Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Ellis III Ms. Carolyn Carney Stephen and Evalyn Milman Dr. William T. Leeburg Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hanchett Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Spahn Mrs. Jane V. Engel Dr. David Carpenter Mr. John V. Moore Mr. and Mrs. W. Wallace McDowell Dr. J. Douglas Hanna Mrs. Nancy B. States James and Catherine Gero Mrs. Dorothy Carpenter William and Mary Sue Morrill Mr. and Mrs. Davis U. Merwin Dr. and Mrs. Francis Harris Ms. Candis Stern George and Deirdre Glober Mr. James R. Carpenter Mrs. Marcia S. Morton Mr. and Mrs. James H. Morgens Mrs. Margaretta S. Hausman Dr. William R. Stott, Jr. Mr. Christopher J. K. Goodwin Elliot and Karin Cattarulla Ms. Susan L. Mowry Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nissley Helmut and Candis Stern Animal John and Bonnie Strand Mr. John Foote and Mr. Donald F. Chandler and Bird Welfare Fund Dr. Robert L. Murry, D.V.M. Mrs. Helen M. Posey Ms. Dorothy J. Stumpf Ms. Kristen Rupert Mr. Henry T. Chandler Mr. Thomas A. Hendrickson Ellen and Rachel Naegeli Gary and Ruthie Rollins Mrs. Anne Symchych Ms. Mary P. Hines Mr. Andrew Chen and Dr. Susan Henry and Dr. Diana Nevins Ms. Tracy E. Holmes Mrs. Elizabeth E. Rowley and Ms. J. Heidi Mass Mr. Peter Henry Ms. Catherine Symchych Mr. Jean Rowley Owls Roost Fund 17 Ms. Juliet P. Tammenoms Bakker Bill and Katherine Atterbury Dr. Edward Boyno Dr. Geoffrey Conrad Mr. Jonathan Franzen Ms. Mona L. Hayford Mr. and Mrs. Allan R. Tessler Mrs. Diana Atwood Johnson Brian and Kathryn Brackney Mrs. Elizabeth Coombe Ms. Nancy G. Frederick Robert Heeren The Inge Foundation Mr. James H. Averill, Jr. Mr. Jim Brady Mr. Michael P. Corcoran Ms. Jeanne P. Freeman Ms. Janeth C. Hendershot The White Pine Fund Ms. Susan P. Bachelder Dr. Nachman Brautbar Professor William Crawford and Ms. Robyn Freeman Joe and Sue Henninger Dr. Allen J. Togut Ms. Maria F. Bachich Sandra and Jeff Bricker Professor Maria Crawford Sammy and Pam Freeman Ms. Vicki R. Herrmann Mr. Bill Tollefson Mr. Peter Backman and Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden Dr. Modestino G. Criscitiello, M.D. Stephen and Barbara Friedman Mr. Bill Hersey Mrs. Sally S. Tongren Ms. Annie Christopher Ms. Marney B. Brooks Mr. Craig Cummings Mr. Charles A. Fritz III Ms. Lucinda Anne Hess Mr. William G. Trankle Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Baker Mr. Bart Brown Peter and Rhoda Curtiss Mrs. Roberta Gagliano Ms. Nancy S. Heymann Ms. Marianne Turek Tornatore Dr. Jeffrey Baldani Ms. Becky A. Brown Mrs. Joan S. Cushman Dr. and Mrs. Walter Gamble Mrs. Kate D. Hickey Ms. Andrea Turkalo Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bangert Ms. Deirdre M. Brown Ms. Laurie Dann Ms. Caroline R. Garbaty Ms. Hannah Hill Dr. Patricia Ann Turner Claire Barabash Ms. Elaine M. Brown Mr. Henry M. Darley Mr. Clayton Gascoigne Mr. Robert A. Hill Mr. Lewis Ulrey Mr. William L. Barclay Ms. Percy Browning Carl and Penelope DauBach Ms. Valerie Gebert Mr. Daniel D. Hodges Mr. Joe Verreault Mr. Edward Barker Ms. Lauretta J. Bruno Janis and Ron Davies Ms. Sandy Gewinner Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Hood Mr. Andrew L. Wagner Mrs. Alice W. Barkhausen Buck Henri, LTD Mr. David Davis and Ms. Nancy Gilbert Ms. Theodora W. Hooton Ms. Peggy Walbridge Mr. Donald Barnes Scott and Mavis Buginas Ms. Jo Ann Mills Dr. Frank Gilliland Mr. William R. Hopping Dr. Charles Walcott Ms. Valerie Barnes Mr. Theodore J. Bullard, Jr. Mrs. Jackson Davis Mr. Michael A. Goldman Ms. Jean A. Horton Mr. John S. Warriner Dr. A. Sidney Barritt III Mr. Rhett W. Burgess Dr. Nancy J. Dawson Mr. Edward Gomez and Henry and Sharon Hosley Mr. Jude A. Weis Ms. Catherine Barron Ms. Colette A. Burrus Ms. Ann Day Ms. Christina Van Fossan Dr. George A. Housley, M.D. Mrs. Stefani Weiss Mr. James Barry and Ms. Kathryn E. Cade Mr. Edward N. Dayton Frederick and Fair Gouldin Mr. J. Russell Hoverman Ms. Georgia E. Welles Mrs. Elizabeth Britton-Barry Ms. Susan Whitney Callahan Ms. Electra de Peyster Carl and Judith Graber Mrs. Jeanne Howard Dr. Brian White Ms. Susan Barton Ms. Nancy Camacho Mrs. Lillian S. DeHart Mr. David Graham Miss Jean A. Howell

Donors Williams Family Foundation Ms. Becky Bartovics Ms. Shirley Cameron Dr. Thomas J. Delaney Ms. Jane Graves John and Elizabeth Howell Mr. Michael Williams and Ms. Patricia G. Bates Mrs. Doris A. Campbell Robert and Linda DeLap Ms. Judith A. Gray Dr. Ronald R. Hoy Ms. Sally Russ Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Baumgartner Ms. Emily B. Campbell Ms. M.M. Dieckmann Mr. Michael Gray and Ms. Bette Hoyt Mr. John Williamson Mr. and Mrs. R.G. Beaton Mrs. Catherine Caneau Ms. Rose Dill Ms. Cecilia Riley Ms. Rebecca C. Huddle Ms. Jeannie B. Wright Mrs. Katherine L. Beattie Ms. Diane Carlson Mr. Todd Dixon Mr. Paul Gray Ms. Judith Huf David and Cherie Zelinger Mrs. Juta Beauchamp Ms. Antonia Carmean Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Donohue Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Greenwood Mr. James D. Hunt Mr. Bruce Becker Mr. Dennis Carroll Mr. Gordon Douglas Mr. Ken Greenwood Mr. William C. Hunter $500 to $999 Susan and Frederick Beckhorn Dr. Ogden B. Carter Ms. Dorothy J. Doyle Ms. Dorothy Gregory Mr. Robert Hurtubise Ms. Margaret A. Abdou Ms. Jill Beckman Ms. Mary E. Case Droll Yankees, Inc. Ms. Julia A. Gregory Jack and Sally Iliff Mr. Joseph Acosta Mr. and Mrs. James Bennett Ford and Phyllis Cauffiel David and Susan Drown Ms. Amy E. Grose Paul and Amy Impelluso Mrs. Felicia Adams Mrs. Barbra Berry Dr. Eugene Ceglowski and Ms. Jennifer Dubois Ms. Marlene Grover T. E. and Patsy Inglet Ms. Diane Adkin Ms. Anissa Berry-Frick Dr. Jean Ceglowski Ms. Rebecca Dunaway Mr. Scott Gunnison Mr. James C. Inman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin E. Agnew Ms. Alison R. Biggs Ms. Vija Celmins Weaver and Diana Dunnan Mr. Kevin Hable Mrs. Pamela A. Isdell Ms. Oona Aldrich Reverend Tommy Bills George L. Chapman Mr. Steven Ealick and Judy Virgilio Dr. William Hackos Dr. William Ishee, Jr. Camille and Eleanor Allen Ms. Joan M. Birchenall Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Chaskel Dr. William T. Ellison Mr. Will Haffner Lee and Rebecca Jackrel and Family Guthrie and Louise Birkhead Clarice Mattson Environmental Mrs. Alexandra L. Evans Chris and Helen Haller Ms. Carolyn B. Jackson Russell and Barbara Allison Mrs. Constance Blau Foundation Mr. Jeff Evans Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Hamill Ms. Shari Jackson Douglas and Arlie Anderson Mr. Jefferey Bleam Jonathan and Priscilla Clark Fermata, Inc. Mrs. Carol Hanawalt Ms. Ellen G. Jacobs Ms. Gayle A. Anderson Mr. William Block Patricia and Al Clark Dr. David Ferster and Mrs. Shirley A. Hance Kay and Peter Jamieson Dr. Indira Raman James and Darla Anderson Blue Cross Pet Hospital Ms. Kathi D. Clement Dr. Nora E. Hanke Mr. Andrew MacAoidh Jergens Ms. Maxine M. Field Ms. Linda M. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Bill Boardman Dr. Clare Close Ms. Mary E. Hansen Mr. Peter M. Joftis Mrs. Virginia C. Fisher Dr. Mary Alice Anderson Mr. Richard L. Booth, Jr. Mr. Addison Cole Mr. Steven Harmer Dr. Donald E. Johnson Peter and Genevieve Flickinger Mrs. Ruth L. Anderson Mr. Alan Boss Mr. James R. Collins Mrs. Sheila R. Harper Ms. Heather Johnson Brian and Judith Foley Mr. J. Richard Andrews Ms. Jean C. Bottcher N. Karen and Gregory Collins Mr. Thomas B. Harris Mr. Alan R. Johnston Ms. Susan Ford-Hoffert Anonymous (2) Ms. Olivia Bouler Ms. Carolee Colter Mr. William C. Hartranft Mr. Anthony R. Jones Ms. Alison Fox Dr. Ajit I. Antony, M.D. Boveri Trackman Family Mr. Richard Comstock Mr. Mark P. Hassell Mrs. Carol A. Jory Foundation, Inc. Harold and Rhea Fox Mrs. Jean R. Armour Mr. John Conover and Jane and Gerry Haviland Mr. Robert Kappmeyer Ms. Lori Ashley Mr. Robert R. Bowman Ms. Janice Peterson Dr. Candace M. France Mrs. Donna Hayes 18 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Kehr Ms. Amy Marr Dr. Patricia O’Handley Dr. William Ross Mr. and Mrs. James W. Spencer Wild Birds Unlimited, ChevronTexaco Corporation Ms. Bettie F. Kehrt Ms. Candace Marshall Ollie and Grace Oliver Ms. Mary L. Rowe Richard and Margaret Sprott Saratoga Springs, NY Coca-Cola Foundation Barbara J. Keinath Ms. Michelle Maton Ms. Karen W. O’Neil Ms. Michelle Rozales Vivek Sriram Mr. William Wilkinson and Con Edison Company Mrs. Blanche Kelly Mrs. April L. Matthews Mr. Henry H. Page, Jr. Mr. David Ruppert Mr. Bruce Stebbings Ms. Janet Dale ConocoPhillips Ms. Mary D. Kelly Miss Helen A. Mattin Mr. C. W. Eliot Paine Ms. Karen L. Ruppert Dr. Jeanne M. Stellman Ms. Josaphine Wilkinson-Gould Cooper Industries, Inc. Dr. M. Keith Kennedy Frederick and Linda Mau Dr. Wendy R. Parish Mr. William B. Russell Ms. Jennifer Stephan Mrs. Carolyn Will Corning Incorporated Ms Patricia Kessler Ms. Mary Mauel Mr. Angus Parker Ms. Suzanne Ryerson Ms. Amy Stirrup Dr. Hibbard E. Williams Deutsche Bank America, Fdn. Mrs. Susan L. Keys and Family Ms. Ann M. Mayer Dr. Frederick Parker Jeffrey and Susan Saffle Mr. Jim Strachan Ms. Sally Williams Discover Financial Services Dr. Lewis F. Kibler Ms. Missy Mayfield Mr. and Mrs. Terry J. Parrinello Dr. Donald C. Samson Mr. and Mrs Thomas Sutherland Mr. Stefan T. Williams Eaton Corporation Ms. Sarah J. Kilpatrick Mr. Timothy McCaffrey Mr. Robert E. Parsons Mr. Rick Sanders and Dr. Michael G. Tannenbaum Dr. Kay M. Williamson Edison International Ms. Pamela Kindler Mr. Donald R. McClintock Ms. Marilyn Pasierb Ms. Janice Hand Ms. Donna E. Tatro Mr. and Mrs. William E. Willis Eisai, Inc. Matching Gift Co. Kenneth and Elizabeth King Marsha and James McCormick Ms. Anne L. Pattee Sean and Lisa Scanlon Mrs. Barbara Taylor Ms. Linda Wittlin Eli Lilly & Company Foundation Dr. Robert E. Kleiger Ms. Edith McCurdy Ms. Carol Patton Ms. Lynn Scarlett Mr. Jerome Taylor Ms. Marina Wolkonsky Energizer Corp. Matching Mr. Edward Klein and Ms. Holly McKenzie and Dr. Karen E. Perizzolo Ms. Suzanne Schaefer and Ms. Marie Terlizzi and Wrenwood, Inc./Wild Birds Gift Company Unlimited Ms. Linda Trapkin Mr. Robert Martin Ms. Susan Permut Mr. Paul Dennison Mr. Robert Dobbs ExxonMobil Foundation Ms. Mary P. Wright Ms. Nancy Kling Donald and Ione McKnight Robert and Veronica Petersen Mr. George Scheets Manley and Doriseve Thaler Freddie Mac Foundation Mr. J. A. Wunderlich III Mr. John Kopsky Mrs. Mary M. Mcllhany-Trout Glenn and Ellen Peterson Phyllis and Gary Schiller Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas Gap Foundation Ms. M. Catherine Yerzley Ms. Catherine Kotowski Mr. John F. McMullan Mr. Ralph Peterson Mr. Dick Schoenberger Mrs. Kathryne Thorpe Genentech, Inc. Mr. Dan Young Kevin and Jenifer Kramer Ms. Rhoda M. McNitt Dr. Barbara Phelan and Dr. Carol Ms. Thelma C. Schoonmaker Ms. Nancy Tibor General Electric Company Dr. Stephen Kress Mrs. Sally McVeigh Reed Dr. and Mrs. Richard R. Schreiber Mr. Jim Tilling Ms. Linda Young General Mills Foundation Rudolf and Dagmar Kroc David and Julianne Mehegan Ms. Regina Phelps Mr. Frederick Schroeder Mr. Bill Tollefson Owen and Linda Youngman GlaxoSmithKline Ms. Jane Kruysman Mr. Myron Mehlman Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Phillips Terry Schroeder Dr. and Mrs. J. Charles Tracy Mr. Ken Zaremba Global Impact Ms. Connie Kummer Ms. Mary Anne Mekosh Ms. Lauris J. Phillips Mr. Thomas S. Schulenberg Charles and Nancy Trautmann Ms. Rebecca Zatsman Goldman Sachs & Company Ms. Barbara C. Kyse Mr. John Mendyka, Jr. Mr. William Phillips and Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Schulze Mack and Carol Travis Mr. Michael F. Zeloski Harris Foundation Corporation Mr. Andre G. LaClair Dr. June Mercer Ms. Barbara Smith Ms. Barbara Searles Ms. Rebecca Tulloch Mrs. Anne-Marie Ziegler Heinz Company Foundation Mrs. Elise S. Lapham Ms. Mollie L. Meyer Ms. Antoinette M. Pilzner Mr. Christopher J. Selley Ms. Alice H. Turk Mr. Jerome M. Ziegler Hewlett Packard Company Ms. Heather D. Larson Mrs. Catherine Michaud Mr. William W. Pinchbeck Dr. Greg Seymour James and Mary Van Buren Mr. Richard Zimmerman Home Depot Mr. Clayton Latimer Mr. Earl E. Miller Prairie Oak Veterinary Center Ms. Kathleen S. Seymour Mrs. Mary Van Vleck Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Mrs. Jeanne Leckert Ms. M. Ellen Miller Marion Pratt Mrs. Alice L. Shaner-Simpson Mr. Wouter K. Vanderwal Matching Gifts IBM Corporation Richard and Susan Lee Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Mitchell Mrs. Joan Promin Ms. Janice Sharp and Ms. Anneke Vankirk Abbott Laboratories Illinois Tool Works Foundation Ms. Roma E. Lenehan Mr. Howard W. Mizell and Family Mr. Albert E. Pyott Mr. Brian Bowman Ms. Rhonda Vitanye Ace Ina Foundation Intel Corporation Ms. Martha V. Leonard Mr. Michael Moran Ms. Terry Rabinor Mr. John T. Shaw Mrs. Emily V. Wade Adobe Systems John D. and Catherine T. Mrs. Lynn Leopold Mr. Ernest D. Moritz Dr. and Mrs. Jan R. Radke William and Jacquelyn Sheehan Dr. Marcia J. Wade Aegon Transamerica Foundation MacArthur Foundation Lisa-Marie and Michael Lerner Mr. Joe Moser Ms. Karen Redfern Ms. Cynthia Shereda Dr. Judith L. Wagner Aetna, Inc. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Ms. Elizabeth A. Levin Penny and Don Moser Ms. Susan Reed Mrs. Joan Siedenburg Ms. Laurel C. Walker Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Nathaniel and Karen Levy Ms. Phoebe K. Mossey Dr. Mitchell C. Reese Ms. Deborah A. Siegele Mrs. Dorris M. Wampler Akzo America Foundation JP Morgan Chase Foundation Dr. James D. Lillard, Jr. Ms. Jerlline Muller Mr. Paul Regan III Ms. Barbara J. Siepierski Mr. Fred F. Wampler AllianceBernstein Keybank Foundation Mrs. Grace V. Lincoln Ms. Natalie H. Nakao Mr. and Mrs. Edward Reilly-Wolford Donald and Linda Simmons Milo and Barbara Warner American Transmission Company Kimberly-Clark Foundation Ms. Deborah L. Linde Ms. Judith C. Nelsen Mrs. Glenna S. Rice Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Rogers Dr. Nancy E. Warner, M.D. Argonaut Group, Inc. Kraft Foods North America, Inc. Simpson Mr. Rick Lipsey Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W Nester Ms. Jane P. Rice Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Weber AT&T Foundation LabCorp Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sink Dr. Hans-Christian Luedemann Mrs. Beverly J. Neubauer Ms. Lily B. Rice Mrs. Robert Weinstock Avago Techologies Land O’Lakes, Inc. Mr. Thomas F. Richardson Mrs. Marjorie Smart and Bank of America Foundation Law School Admission Council Dr. Elizabeth Lynch New York Audubon Society Mr. Robert Camp Mr. and Mrs. D.B. Wetherell, Jr. Dr. Beverly S. Ridgely Bank One Foundation Lockheed Martin Mr. and Mrs. Eric Macey Ms. Josephine Nixon Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Smith Mr. Thomas Wheadon Mr. Bob Righter Boeing Company Marathon Oil Company Dr. Charles D. MacInnes Mrs. Barbara C. Noll Mrs. Catherine Smith Mr. David White Ronald and Katharine Robey BP Foundation, Inc. McCormick Foundation Ms. Ann Maine and Neil and Sally Norcross Ms. Elizabeth A. Smith Kenan and B. Briscoe White Mr. Gordon Wood Ms. Tasneem Robin-Bhatti Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Merck Company Foundation Ms. Pamela Norris Mr. Scott Smith Dr. Stephen M. White Mr. Guy E. C. Maitland Mr. George Rock Casey Matching Gifts Program Metropolitan Life Foundation Dr. C. J. Norton Mrs. Judie G. Smithers Mr. Wayne Whitmore Ms. Robin Mann Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Rockefeller Caterpillar Foundation Microsoft Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. Ms. Nancy B. Soulette Wild Birds Unlimited, Buffalo, NY Mr. Charles R. Manning Mrs. Jean W. Ogle Ms. Laura Roe Wild Birds Unlimited, Ithaca, NY Matching Gift Monsanto Company 19 Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. Ms. Diane Adkin Ms. Nancy A. deGroff Mr. Norman C. Lantz Mr. Zoltan Porga Ms. Ingrid Sunzenauer New York Community Trust Ann and Philip Aines Mrs. Ruth D. Dillon Mr. Robert J. Laskowski Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Porter Mr. Scott Sutcliffe Nintendo of America, Inc. Albrecht Estate Stephen and Betty Eaton Howard and Sydney Leach Mr. Richard Pough Ms. Donna E. Tatro Northern Trust Company Mr. John E. Alexander Estate of Michael Barton Eddy Marian Legg Albert and Diane Puff Mrs. Nancy Thomas Oracle Corporation Russell and Barbara Allison Mr. Michael B. Eddy Estate Ms. Marjorie Lewin Ms. Hazel E. Reed Mr. John H. Thomson Orvis-Perkins Foundation Mr. Elwin F. Anderson Ms. Norma Edsall Mr. Richard Livesey III and Ms. April L. Reese Dr. and Mrs. Walter A. Thurber The PepsiCo Foundation, Inc. Ms. Bertha Andrew Dr. Leonard Eiserer Mrs. Mae Livesey Dr. Laurie Renz Mrs. Phyllis Tillinghast Pfizer, Inc. Mrs. Patricia L. Angotti Ms. Frances J. Ehlers Ms. Catherine Lomuscio Ms. Frances M. Rew Elizabeth Todd Pioneer Hi-Bred International Bill and Katherine Atterbury Mrs. George B. Emeny Mrs. Madeline Lutz Ms. Kathleen Rhodes Mr. Charles E. Treman, Jr. Pitney Bowes Terry Auld Mr. and Mrs. Roger H. Farrell Mr. and Mrs. William Macaulay Mrs. Susan Starr Richards Reverend Barbara B. Triggs PPG Industries Foundation Ms. Katharine M. Aycrigg Ms. June M. Ficker Mr. J. De Navarre Macomb, Jr. Mrs. Eleanor Robbins Ms. Charlotte Vaughn Principal Financial Group Fdn. Ms. Madge Baker Mr. Robert T. Foote ‘39 Ms. Marion Mascari Mr. William R. Robertson Mrs. Mary Clare Ward Procter & Gamble Company Mr. & Mrs. Konrad Bald Dr. Kathy Freas Ms. Mary Mauel Mr. Stan Rodwin Mrs. E. R. Webster Prudential Insurance Foundation Mrs. John F. Barry Mr. William F. Fuerst, Jr. Mr. Richard G. McClung Mr. Thomas W. Rogers Estate Mrs. Madelon G. Wehner Regions Financial Corporation Mrs. John W. Behnken Mr. and Mrs. H. Laurance Fuller Ms. Betty L. McCurdy Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Rose III Ms. Julie Westbrook Ridgewood Savings Bank Mrs. Dorothy W. Bell Mrs. Esther B. Garnsey Mr. Everett G. McDonough, Jr. Mrs. Jeanette G. Rosenberger Ms. Jeanne A. White Rockwell Collins Mr. Joseph Benner Mr. Donald P. Garrett Ms. Margaret J. McDowell Mrs. Elizabeth E. Rowley & Mrs. Jeanne D. Wigen-Ayers Rum Village Nature Ct. Mr. Mark J. Bilak & Family Ms. Paula Gills Ms. Winifred P. McDowell Mr. Jean Rowley Ms. Hazel L. Wilbur SC Johnson & Son, Inc. Mrs. Janet Blam Vincent and Ann Marie Glaviano Dr. Ann J. McGarvey, D.D.S. Ms. Gayle Russell Mr. Robert G. Williams Security Mutual Life Insurance Ms. Susan D. Boettger Mrs. Emily R. Glover Mrs. Elizabeth A. McLaren Dr. William L. Rutherford Mrs. Louise W. Woodruff Shell Oil Company Foundation Mrs. James C. H. Bonbright Ms. Doris Goldstein Ms. Carol McQuade Mr. Richard Scales Mrs. Shirley S. Woods

Donors Texas Instruments Ms. Ann Bregman Mr. Alfred H. Gray Mr. Earl O. Menefee Ms. Lynne R. Scheer Mrs. Barbara Wright Thrivent Financial Lutherans Dr. Joan Brenchley-Jackson Mr. William Anson Grover, Sr. Mr. Harry Merker Dr. Francis G. Scheider, M.D. Ms. Jeannie B. Wright UBS Matching Gift Program Ms. Becky A. Brown Ms. Joan M. Guerin Mr. John P. Merrill Mrs. Janey Schnoor Mr. L. Christopher Wright Union Pacific Corporation Ms. Irene Brown Mrs. Suzanne O. Happeny Ms. R. Rosalie Metzger Ms. Ellen M. Schopp Mrs. Clara Taylor Yager United Technologies Corporation Ms. Betty A. Bruhns Mrs. Karen E. Harris Ms. Marinia Michalec Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schumann Dr. Paula Yellin UnumProvident Corporation Mr. Gregory Brumfield Duncan and Adrienne Hartley Dr. Norman S. Moore Ms. Monica J. Schwalbach Mr. George W. Zepko Vanguard Group, Inc. Ms. Gretchen L. Burmeister Jane and Gerry Haviland Mr. John A-X Morris ‘74 Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Severinghaus Ms. Dorothy N. Zirkle Verisk Analytics Ms. Frances Burnett Sheila Harrah Hearne Estate Mr. John David Morris Betty and Jim Shannon Verizon Foundation Ms. Colette A. Burrus Harry Heidt Estate Ms. Rita J. Myrick Ms. Helen R. Shaskan Gifts in Memory of Vermont Community Foundation Dr. & Mrs. David L. Call Ms. Phyllis Henney Estate Mrs. Ellen Dana Nagler Mrs. Mary S. Shaub Robert H. Anderson Walt Disney Company Foundation Ms. Eleanor R. Campbell Dr. Linda J. Himot Ms. Mildred E. Neff Mrs. Alice M. Shaw Gary Neuman and Julie West Mr. Richard S. Shirley Dr. Donna Esposito and Wells Fargo Bank Mrs. S. James Campbell Mrs. Leona S. Hine Dr. William Ross Dr. Polly G. Nicely Mr. Richard J Siewers Wells Fargo Foundation Dr. Alvin R. Carpenter Ms. Mary P. Hines General Electric Company Westly Foundation Mr. Fred Carr Henry and Sharon Hosley Mr. Alphonse R. Normandia Ms. Mindy Simon Frances Adele Tyler Andrew Williams Companies Carol and Daniel Cash Mr. John Huppler Mrs. Judith L. O’Neale Mrs. Carol U. Sisler Ms. Carolyn van Leer Wisconsin Energy Corporation Ms. Kathaleen A. Cattieu James and Roberta Hutchison Mr. Stephen B. Oresman Bernie and Mary Slofer Xerox Corporation Mr. Dwight R. Chamberlain Mr. Bernard Iliff Mr. Thomas R. Palmer Ms. Victoria Slowik Ann Beale XL America Matching Gift Ms. Joyce W. Cima Mr. Isidor Jeklin Ms. Virginia Panarace Estate Mrs. Marjorie Smart and Ms. Sue Farmer Clarann Estate Ms. Kristine Johnson Mrs. Ellen S. Parkes Mr. Robert Camp Ms. Barbara J. Beharriell Sapsucker Woods Ms. Pat Collins Ms. Nora Jones Ms. Ellen I. Paul Mrs. Emily C. Smith Ms. Shirley K. Beharriell Society Recognizing all Ms. Esther A. Pearlman Ms. Marybeth Sollins Mrs. Mary E. Cost Mrs. Judith M. Joy Mr. Fred Bennes friends who have included the Dr. & Mrs. William D. Peterson Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth T. Steadman Mr. William Powell Cottrille Mrs. Judith M. Kay Ms. Ann Hudson Lab in their estate plans, past Mr. George M. Pflaumer Barry and Sandy Stevenson and present Mrs. Virginia R. Crocker Mrs. Blanche C. Kelly Ms. Ruth Cummings Mr. David Keyes Professor Elmer S. Phillips Mr. William R. Stewart Kenneth Buttler Mr. Sal Acosta and Peter and Rhoda Curtiss Mrs. T. Spencer Knight Mr. William Phillips and Ms. Pamela J. Story Ms. Sheila Stone Ms. Suzanne Hutchinson Randi and L. Van Dauler Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Knox Ms. Barbara Smith Mr. Edward P. Street, Jr. Mrs. Eleanor Carr Mr. Charles S. Adams Ms. Martha E. Day Samuel and Linda Kramer Ms. Lauren Pickard Mrs. Lyman K. Stuart Ms. Shelley Craine Ms. Louise Addis Mr. Vernon D. Dayhoff Mr. Harold E. Kubly Mr. Richard F. Pietsch Ms. and Mrs. Miriam P. Stuart Ms. Carol L. Faye Blanding 20 Ms. Nancy Griffin Ms. Mary B. McCall Ms. Jane M. Friedman Mr. John Foote and Endowments Professorial Support Corporate Partners Ms. Helen A. Hill Mr. Benjamin S. Ohrenstein Ms. Patricia A. Gannon Ms. Kristen Rupert Arthur A. Allen Director General Support $20,000 and above International Brotherhood of Ms. Saundra P. 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On the back cover a Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick sits camouflaged among lichens on the Russian tundra.

Adult Spoon-billed Sandpipers maintain constant vigilance, watching for predators such as gulls, jaegers, and ravens. When they utter a warning call in response to aerial predators, the chicks become motionless, blending into the landscape to avoid detection. “It was difficult to watch the young depart the nest for the last time,” said photographer Gerrit Vyn. “Their tiny bodies look so vulnerable in the seemingly unforgiving landscape—it’s a wonder that any of them survive.”

The future of Spoon-billed Sandpipers is precarious, with fewer than 200 estimated to remain. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will use scientific expertise and vibrant footage of this species to provide people, conservation organizations, and government agencies with the inspiration and information needed for critical conservation action.

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