Claudia Wilds Award

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]

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

See also

References
  1. American Birding Association. "ABA Awards". Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. Wilds, Claudia (1992). Finding Birds in the National Capital Area (rev. ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 9781560981756.
  3. Wilds, Claudia; Joe DiCostanzo (2005). Terns and Skimmers: A Guide to the Terns and Skimmers of the World. A&C Black Publishers, Ltd. ISBN 9781873403426.
  4. Lehman, Paul (October 1997). "A Tribute to Claudia Wilds (1931-1997)". Birding. 29 (5): 358–360.
  5. "ABA Award Recipients". American Birding Association. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  6. Floyd, Ted (May–June 2006). "The History of Birding, Part III. 1981-1987" (PDF). Birding. 38 (3): 18–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  7. Floyd, Ted (September–October 2006). "The History of Birding, Part V. 1994-2000" (PDF). Birding. 38 (5): 18–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
  8. Jett, George (May 2009). "SMAS Members Bell & Kostenko Honored" (PDF). The Osprey. Southern Maryland Audubon Society. 39 (8): 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 2 October 2012.
  9. Wheaton College. "Faculty Work--The Sciences". Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  10. Culbert, Robert A. (12 February 2014). "Reigning Raptors". Vineyard Gazette. Edgardtown, MA. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
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