New York City Audubon Society Inc
New York City Audubon Society Inc
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About this organization
Mission
New York City Audubon is a grassroots community that works for the protection of wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the lives of New Yorkers. We envision a day when birds and people in the five boroughs enjoy a healthy, livable habitat. Our efforts have brought hundreds of acres of city and state lands under protection, helped waterbird populations in New York Harbor rebound from historic lows, and raised awareness of the hazards of light and glass for migrating birds. NYC Audubon is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit that affiliates with the National Audubon Society and its state office, Audubon New York.
About
During this year, conservation efforts included two main programmatic areas. 1. Project Safe Flight - making NYC safer for migratory birds. In addition to our regular monitoring for window strike victims in Manhattan, we are also collecting incidental reports on bird mortality in all 5 boroughs through our innovative web-based reporting schema called D-Bird. We are partnering with colleagues to describe different qualities of outdoor artificial lighting and correlate those with mortality events. We continue working with partners to identify 'bird friendly' glass characteristics and ways to standardize these ratings for companies seeking to achieve the bird-friendly pilot credit for LEED, and we are working on several initiatives (city and state) for bird-friendly building legislation including technical assistance to governmental agencies. Our green roof work continues as part of our Project Safe Flight program, and it is growing briskly. We are monitoring the Jacob Javits green roof in Manhattan and finished our work monitoring the Broadway Stages wildflower roof in Brooklyn for biodiversity (arthropods, birds, mammals). We held our second Green Roof Researchers Alliance conference (GRRA) during which we launched the GRRA website. We are engaged in legislative initiatives for incentivizing green roof installation in NYC including providing technical assistance to governmental agencies. 2. Our waterbird program focused on the health of the NY harbor using waterbirds as bio indicators. This program includes our annual Harbor Herons nesting surveys and conference; beach-nesting shorebird monitoring and public outreach; and migratory shorebird tracking and surveys. We continue to work with the common terns nesting on one of two Buttermilk Channel piers at Governors Island, enhancing nesting habitat and monitoring nesting success. In Jamaica Bay, we conducted beach clean-ups and monitored horseshoe crabs and migratory shorebirds and led educational outreach to local schools. We continue our migratory shorebird monitoring program, attaching high-tech nanotags to semipalmated sandpipers. Tag frequencies are detected by an array of stationary data loggers (Motus towers).
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The mission of the non-profit, as stated in the filing, is “Nyc audubon society is a grass roots community that works for the protection of wild birds and their habitats in the five boroughs of new york city, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.”.
When referring to its tasks, they were described as: “Nyc audubon society is a grass roots community that works for the protection of wild birds and their habitats in the five boroughs of new york city, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.”.
- The non-profit is operating legally in the state of NY.
- The non-profit's address for the year 2020 is listed as 71 WEST 23RD STREET NO 1523, NEW YORK, NY, 10010 in the filing.
- The form submitted by the non-profit organization for 2020 reports 12 employees.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $25,361.
- The organization has 21 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1979.
- The organization pays $875,802 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $188,121 in fundraising expenses.
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