Claudia Wilds Award

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The ABA Claudia Wilds Award for Distinguished Service is an award given by the American Birding Association to a member who has given "long and useful service to the organization," either as a volunteer or as compensated staff, in recognition of the member's dedicated energy and years of service. [1]

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One of five awards presented by the ABA for contributions to birding, the award is named in honor of Claudia Wilds (1931-1997), who made many contributions to ornithology and the ABA. Wilds was author of an important birdfinding guide to the mid-Atlantic states [2] and co-author of a handbook of the world's terns and skimmers, completed after her death. [3] Wilds served on the board of the ABA, was an associate editor of Birding magazine, wrote articles for The Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding, and was a consultant in the preparation of the National Geographic Society's field guide. [4] She herself was posthumously awarded the ABA's Ludlow Griscom Award in 1998. [5]

The Claudia Wilds Award was first bestowed on Larry Balch.

List of recipients

The award was introduced in 2000.

Source: [5]

YearNameNotes
2000Larry BalchPast ABA president [6]
2001Bob Berman
2001Cindy Lippincott
2002Dan WilliamsPast ABA president [7]
2003Paul Baicich
2005Hugh Willoughby
2009Jane Kostenko and J. Tyler Bell [8]
2010John Kricher [9]
2014Allan Keith [10] Past ABA president
2017Lou Morrell

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