GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. JACOB MCGINNIS / AUDUBON PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS REPORT 2018–2019 ANNUAL LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Members,

I’m humbled to introduce this issue of Earthcare Rather than pre-emptively mourn their loss, as you Northwest no longer as ‘Interim,’ but as the ongoing marvel at their uniqueness and beauty, consider Executive Director of Seattle Audubon. It is both an what you can do to protect them. Thanks to you, awesome responsibility and joy to lead this there’s still hope. incredible staff and to partner with you, our board of directors, and hundreds of This is the time of year when many of volunteers to carry out the work that you will make year-end donations, you’ll see featured in the following register for the Christmas Bird Count, PHOTO BY ELAINE CHUANG / REFUGE OUTDOOR FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS pages. or purchase holiday gifts at the Seattle Audubon Nature Shop. Why not also You have undoubtedly heard the make a New Year’s resolution for alarming results from the research birds? You can pledge to swap your INVESTING IN PEOPLE, out of Cornell University: there are an lawn for native plants, keep your cats estimated 3 billion fewer birds on the wing safely indoors, or treat your windows in the U.S. and Canada than there were 50 to prevent bird strikes. Vow to fight for FOR BIRDS years ago (3billionbirds.org). That’s more than renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions. 1 out of 4 birds gone. If this news weren’t devasting Whatever you choose to do next, you’ve already By Wendy Walker, Community Engagement Manager enough, the National Audubon Society’s updated made a difference. This report is a testament to the birds and climate change report, released right on investments you’ve already made in a better future the heels of the Cornell study, finds that two-thirds for birds. Thank you. Birds do something only a few wild animals do, long, a false story has been told that wild places of North American bird species are vulnerable to accompany us throughout our lives. They retain their were reserved for a certain kind of person, regularly extinction from climate change (climate.audubon.org). With gratitude, essential wildness, and yet come to our feeders, nest depicted in ads as young, white, able-bodied, and in the parks where we walk our dogs, and stop to rest alone. With Refuge Outdoor Festival, Chevon creates Today, I’m asking you to face this difficult news head along shorelines dotted with beach umbrellas. We get a space to challenge this story. Seattle Audubon on. As you look back on all the amazing things our to see them every day, and those sightings lead to supported the inaugural Refuge Fest in 2018 with community accomplished during the 2018-2019 stories. financial sponsorship and by leading bird walks. Our fiscal year, I want you to also think about the road Claire Catania walks received a positive response from the attendees, before us. Each of the species depicted in this issue is Executive Director Storytelling is one way you help Seattle Audubon and we were invited back as sponsors in 2019, adding vulnerable to extinction from climate change. to invest meaningfully in this place we all call home. a bike-and-bird trip with Seattle non-profit partner As an organization, we have more than a century’s BikeWorks. To continue to engage with Refuge Fest worth of stories to tell, and a legacy of supporting and its many partners, we commit to listening first, conservation work that has had significant impact reflecting on feedback, and offering only what is in the region. Every one of our accomplishments valued, not just what we are already prepared to give. required long-term efforts to build relationships, form This is the kind of investment we’ll need to make OUR TEAM partnerships, and share personal stories that drew meaningful progress for birds and people. people along to join in the work together. BOARD STAFF We’re grateful for the Seattle Audubon donors and Community engagement, as we formally call it, requires volunteers who make this work possible. Community OF DIRECTORS Claire Catania Liz Muntean Executive Director AmeriCorps Urban a lot of conversation to reach common goals. Critically, engagement connects people to Seattle Audubon’s Jennifer McKeirnan, President Hanae Bettencourt Environmental Educator it also means we listen as much as we talk, so that mission and programs in ways that are relevant and Andrew Schepers, Vice President Associate Education Manager Anna Murphy other people’s stories, especially stories we haven’t valuable to them in their own neighborhoods. Our Mary Bond, Secretary Kathy Blair AmeriCorps Urban heard, become woven into the work we do. By taking community engagement program also includes Susan Marks, Treasurer Development Manager Environmental Educator the time to know what our partners and neighbors stewarding the Seattle Audubon volunteer program, Toby Ross Bryony Angell Anna Dukes both want and need from us, we can take actions that and external opportunities for outreach and Member Services Assistant Senior Science Manager Ashley Black are valued and welcomed, while also helping the birds community partnerships, many of which you will read John Farnsworth, PhD David Garcia Christine Scheele we all love. about in the following pages. Thank you for your Program Director Supriya Kumar, PhD Nature Shop Manager many contributions to build a stronger community for Kathryn Reniewicki Melissa Melloy Russell Steele In 2018, we started conversations with Chevon birds and people. Finance & Operations Director Robert Sieh Nature Shop Assistant Manager Powell, creator of Refuge Outdoor Festival, a camping Peggy Stromme Joshua Morris Wendy Walker experience geared toward people of color. For too Amanda Virbitsky Urban Conservation Manager Community Engagement Manager 2 3

SEATTLE AUDUBON UPDATES

URBAN CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

From Shoreline to Des Moines, Seattle Audubon’s service area is home to one in seven Our education team spent the past year broadening the geography of our services, with the intent Washingtonians. More than one million people share the lands and waters of this region with over of reaching more people within our service area. The introduction of West Seattle Nature Camp in 200 bird species. Rapid urbanization has brought both challenges and opportunities for people and Seattle’s White Center neighborhood and the creation of several new Neighborhood Bird Walks birds. Seattle Audubon’s Urban Conservation Program envisions people and birds thriving in our local located in Seattle’s downtown urban core helped us to reach new audiences and learn about the communities. Our work over the past year was guided by that vision. environmental celebrations and concerns facing members of our community. We look forward to working with these communities more deeply in the coming year.

HABITAT ENHANCEMENT URBAN HAZARD RISK REDUCTION EARLY CHILDHOOD TEENS • Installed native plant gardens at Rainier Beach • Educated hundreds of participants at PAWS’s • Fledglings & Friends Toddler Story Time at The • Seattle Audubon had 24 teens join in our teen High School and supported similar work at Catio Tour on the impacts to wildlife from Nature Shop: 94 participants came to 12 story program, Young Birders, last year. These teens Highline Big Picture High School in Burien outdoor, free-roaming cats times participate in monthly meetings, field trips, and • Served on the Urban Forestry Commission for a • Hosted Bird-Safe Building presentation with bird- • Fledglings & Friends Toddler Story Time on the community science projects throughout the year. stronger tree protection ordinance in Seattle collision expert Heidi Trudell Road: 12 total field trips or visits to local schools • Consulted with King County Wastewater on a • Consulted with King County Wastewater on bird- reached 336 fledglings ADULTS habitat element for a new administrative building safe building design in Interbay • Field Trips: 550 spots were filled on 75 field trips ELEMENTARY SCHOOL across Western Washington • Finding Urban Nature (FUN): 33 teachers at • Classes: 385 spots were filled in 23 classes on COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 11 schools chose to have their 727 students topics from birds to native plants • Connected with approximately 800 people at 15 Birds need advocates because they participate in 8, hour-long sessions in their own • Master Birder: 22 students graduated from this events, including the Urban Forestry Symposium, cannot speak for“ themselves. We schoolyard habitats intensive two-semester course YMCA Earth Service Corps Environmental • Nature Camp: 331 campers attended Magnuson have an obligation to help our Symposium, local schools, and more Park and West Seattle locations ALL AGES • Supported the work of 40 community partners feathered friends so I am glad to • Education kit and bird specimen rentals: 46 rental • Neighborhood Bird Walks: over 900 participants while sharing our love and concern for birds. give what I can. kits reached over 1,595 people Groups included The Nature Conservancy in attended 77 walks Washington, Forterra, Washington Environmental DARCY THOMAS, MEMBER Council, Capitol Hill EcoDistrict, Delridge Neighborhood Development Association, and many others • Appeared on KOMO and KUOW regarding tree loss in our city

ADVOCACY • Wrote or co-wrote eight advocacy letters, and signed on to three more, regarding policy and actions impacting birds and people in our flyway. Issues included opposing oil and gas leasing in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opposing the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in Canada, urging our elected officials to fully fund the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, urging Mayor Durkan to support stronger tree protections in Seattle, and more

4 DARK-EYED JUNCO / GLORIA Z. NAGLER SEATTLE AUDUBON NATURE CAMPERS 5 SEATTLE AUDUBON UPDATES

COMMUNITY SCIENCE THE NATURE SHOP

One of Seattle Audubon’s greatest strengths has always been our community’s commitment to science The Nature Shop is the public face of Seattle Audubon. It serves as the primary point-of-contact to and bird monitoring. In addition to maintaining two of our own surveys, Seattle Audubon coordinates the organization for new members and is an invaluable conduit to all of our education, science, and local efforts for two National Audubon Society projects. conservation programs. These numbers from the past year demonstrate The Nature Shop’s role in helping our local community to appreciate, understand, and protect birds and their natural habitats.

PUGET SOUND SEABIRD SURVEY (PSSS) years ago! Last year, more than 300 volunteers helped APPRECIATE In its thirteenth season, the PSSS covers 154 sites Seattle Audubon gather valuable data on wintering • 500 children’s books sold across the U.S.-portion of the Salish Sea since last birds. This information is submitted to the National • 482 hummingbird feeders sold year’s expansion north to the Canadian border. We Audubon Society and incorporated into important • 73,426 pounds of wild bird seed—that’s more trained 183 volunteers in a new oil-spill-response plan research like the new Audubon Climate Report (See than 36 tons! last year. climate.audubon.org). CBC by the numbers PSSS by the numbers UNDERSTAND • 1,042 surveys conducted Oct 2018 – Apr 2019 • One of the top 5 CBCs (by participation) in North • 309 pairs of binoculars sold • 53 species and 10,997 individual birds recorded America • 227 field counters • 46 spotting scopes sold • 88 feeder watchers • 590 field guides sold NEIGHBORHOOD BIRD PROJECT (NBP) • 122 species and 46,798 individual birds counted Seattle Audubon launched the Neighborhood Bird PROTECT Project in 1994 to monitor species diversity in our CLIMATE WATCH urban habitats. Volunteers conduct year-round • Over 200 window-strike-prevention products surveys in 9 locations in Seattle and Lake Forest Park. Seattle Audubon is the regional coordinator for the sold National Audubon Society’s Climate Watch project, NBP by the numbers • 165 new memberships through the Nature Shop monitoring species under particular threat from climate • 570 pounds of bird-friendly, shade-grown coffee • 2,280 individual surveys conducted change. In the 2018-2019 season, we expanded local sold • 13,305 individual birds counted efforts to include Ravenna Park and Washington Park Arboretum survey sites. This adds to existing surveys in CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT (CBC) RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH Hamlin Park, Boeing Creek Park, and Carkeek Park. MICK THOMPSON / EASTSIDE AUDUBON SOCIETY Seattle’s first Christmas Bird Count was conducted 111 2018-19 AT A GLANCE

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Parish Michael McGarity Theresa Naujack Caryl Utigard Paula Olson Julia Parrish & Bruce Donald McKay & Nancy Jerry & Whitney Neufeld- Greg Vierling & John Tom & Miggie Olsson Dahlstrom Alden Kaiser Brosnan Jean & Jeff Omalanz-Hood William & Frances Parson Patti McKeehan Katherine Newton Amanda Virbitsky Susan Partnow & James Madeleine McKinnon Norman & Eileen Ong Vicki Nino Osby Peckenpaugh VARIED THRUSH Beverly Wagener 12 MICK THOMPSON / EASTSIDE AUDUBON SOCIETY 13 Susan Wagner Puffins Puffins IN HONOR OF Patricia Wahl Cameron Purn INSTITUTIONAL DONORS FINANCIAL STATEMENT Cynthia & John Wallace Roger Aubuchon Katherine Schloemer John Walsh Shannon Bailey Lynne Smith Acorn Development Bradley, Megan, Emily Jan Bragg Spatula Clypeata Seattle Audubon is a local, independent, nonprofit organization that relies on funding from a variety Banner & Witcoff & Alexander Ward Addi Brooks Jolly Steffens of sources to succeed at its mission—individual gifts, memberships, grants, investment income, and Bill & Melinda Gates Virginia Warfield & Roscius Mary Anne Thorbeck earned income such as class and Nature Camp registrations and proceeds from The Nature Shop. Bucephala Albeola Foundation Doan Jeanne Tomlinson Seattle Audubon is financially strong thanks to this diversity in revenue. The financial information Isaac Butterfield Botanica Steve & Lisa Weatherholt Julia Whitaker presented here is taken from the fiscal year 2018-19 fiscal year audited financial statements. Complete Jane Carmody The Bush School Rick Weber Larry White Seattle Audubon financial statements are available upon request. Claire Catania Central Market Shoreline Barbara & Paul Webster Alison Wysong Gunnel Clark Confluence Environmental Jo Ella & Myron Weybright Sean Donnelly Jane Yagoda Company Ranna & Lynn Wilcox Abraham Epton Neil & Carleen Zimmerman Courting Frogs Nursery FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2018–JUNE 30, 2019 Susan & Bill Wilder Joyce Fowler Fancy Fronds Daryl Wildermuth Barbara Hainley IN MEMORY Fremont Brewing Rich Wilkens Audrey Ivers Grounds for Change BALANCE STATEMENT PROFIT & LOSS STATEMENT Margaret & John Williams Andrew Jacobson Mary Beth Blayney Holbrook Travel Michael Witter & Lizzie Charlotte Jacobson Jane Crowder Jenner & Block Zemke ASSETS REVENUE Lynette James Elaine Eigeman Kruckeberg Botanic Garden Elaine Wong Cash & Cash Equivalents $ 249,080 Membership $ 104,757 Luca Lackman Cody Farrar Madrona Nursery Stanton Wood Investments $ 2,542,950 Individual Contributions $ 236,979 Malcolm & Lindsay Lee Mary Henninge Microsoft Corporation Kent Woodruff Receivables $ 34,875 Corporate Contributions $ 26,173 Gina Lozier Bob Hsu Pagliacci Pizza Merchandise Inventory $ 278,358 In-Kind Contributions $ 21,850 Patricia & Philip Woollcott Marbled Murrelets Richard Koerker Puget Sound Energy Prepaid Expenses $ 4,381 Grants $ 132,883 Donna Yancey Melanitta Perspicillata Betty Larson Foundation Land, Building, & Equipment $ 510,484 Sales (net) $ 171,114 Susan Yates Irene Miller Michael McMullin Tadpole Haven Program Fees $ 170,643 Katherine & Mark Young Investment Income $ 151,500 Joshua Morris Bill Minton The Kahle Foundation, Inc. TOTAL ASSETS $ 3,620,128 Koji & Luke Yugawa & Virginia Morrison Marguerite Musselman University of Washington Amanda Cohn TOTAL REVENUE $ 1,015,899 Whitney & Jer Neufeld- Saumil Padhyay Washington Waterfowl Nitza & Gideon Yuval Kaiser Cindy Patterson Association LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS Juannan Zhou Patty North Thelma Rieless Liabilities E. A. Zickler Oliver Pakkianathan Marilyn Sandall CORPORATE Payables & Accrued Expenses $ 118,052 EXPENSES Vera Zimmerman MATCHING Dennis Paulson Katherine Schloemer Deferred Revenue $ 138,663 Administration $ 178,071 Robert Alexander SPONSORS Merrill Peterson Judith Schmidt Funding the Mission $ 208,007 Lois Atkinson Total Liabilities $ 256,715 Diane Tishler Adobe Systems Inc Programs* $ 807,346 Elaine Whinihan Bill & Melinda Gates Net Assets (new definitions) TOTAL EXPENSES $ 1,193,424 Tony Whitten Foundation Without donor restrictions $ 1,210,397 Dorie Woodworth Boeing Matching Gifts With donor restrictions $ 2,153,016 Program The Bullitt Foundation Total Net Assets $ 3,363,413 * PROGRAM EXPENSE DETAIL Google Matching Gifts I support Seattle Audubon for the Program TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS $ 3,620,128 “ The Nature Shop wonderful community of people it Lucky Seven Foundation Microsoft Corporation 17% 18% fosters, who love birds and nature. 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