• 2000 Arnold Small
• 2001 Pete Dunne
• 2002 David Sibley
• 2004 Victor Emanuel
• 2008 Kenn Kaufman
• 2009 John Rowlett

ABA Chandler Robbins Award

• 2000 Ted Lee Eubanks
• 2002 Charles Duncan
• 2003 David N. Pashley
• 2004 Jerome Jackson
• 2006 Robert Ridgely
• 2007 Jerry Bertrand
• 2008 Richard Daley
• 2009 George Fenwick

ABA Claudia Wilds Award

• 2000 Larry Balch
• 2001 Bob Berman
• 2001 Cindy Lippincott
• 2002 Dan Williams
• 2003 Paul Baicich
• 2005 Hugh Willoughby
• 2009 Jane Kostenko and J. Tyler Bell

ABA Robert Ridgway Award

• 2002 Harold Mayfield
• 2004 Susan M. Smith
• 2005 Steve N.G. Howell
• 2006 Donald Kroodsma
• 2007 Bill Clark
• 2008 Bill Thompson III

• 1980 Roger Tory Peterson
• 1981 Olin Sewall Pettingill
• 1984 Chandler Robbins
• 1986 Jim Lane
• 1988 Susan Roney Drennan
• 1990 Guy McCaskie
• 1992 Kenn Kaufman
• 1994 Ted Parker (posthumously)
• 1996 Richard Pough
• 1998 Claudia Wilds (posthumously)
• 1999 Stuart Keith
• 2000 W. Earl Godfrey
• 2001 Peter Pyle
• 2002 Rich Stallcup
• 2003 Bob and Martha Sargent
• 2004 Bret Whitney
• 2005 Wayne R. Petersen
• 2006 James Dinsmore
• 2007 Ruth Green
• 2008 Bill Fenimore
• 2009 Jim McCormac

Distinguished Birder Award

• 1984 James A. Tucker
• 1986 Charles T. Clark