Cooperative Agreement F17AC00186

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $265,461 and provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures program (CFDA 15.637), supports a project to facilitate the activities of the Midwest Marsh Bird Working Group. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Hiring a Marsh Bird Conservation Manager to coordinate the working group and accelerate marsh bird conservation efforts in the Midwest...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program will fund a $414,271 assessment of climate-mediated range shifts to evaluate the refugial capacity of protected areas for birds in the Upper Great Lakes region. The University of Minnesota, as the prime awardee, will subaward to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to execute the research objectives. The key expected outcomes include...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247), provides $400,000 in funding to the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory dba Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. The funding will support expanding the organization's Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program to conduct additional bird surveys on BLM lands in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The expanded monitoring will provide robust...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures program (CFDA 15.637) provides $166,620 to develop and implement improved methods for monitoring the use of restored and enhanced wetlands by birds, frogs, and people. The key activities include: Piloting the Wetland Restoration Monitoring Protocol (WRMP) to better detect spring migrating waterfowl and rare marsh breeding species at 50 point count...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $982,190 Project Grant under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (CFDA 15.635) program to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. The funding will support research and capacity building at the Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area in Belize. The key deliverables include: Quantifying demographic parameters (e.g., survival) for priority migratory bird species along gradients of silvicultural intensity in the RBCMA, and...

This Project Grant award of $645,270.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program aims to address research and implementation challenges in full annual cycle conservation of migratory birds in the Appalachian Mountains region. The project will utilize big data sources and machine learning to map stopover habitat use and quantify forest structure, and employ a translational ecology approach to collaborate with science users and bridge the...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program provides $1,128,200.00 to expand the Motus wildlife tracking network and study the migratory patterns and habitat use of four species of greatest conservation need in the Pacific and Intermountain Western U.S. regions. Specifically, the grant will fund the installation of 30 new Motus stations and the retrofitting of 50 existing stations to detect transmitters and track the...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $666,705 Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (CFDA 15.635) project grant to Associacao De Pesquisa E Preservacao De Ecoss Aquatico (Aquasis) in Brazil. The goal is to document habitat use and migratory movements of key shorebird species, including Red Knot, Short-billed Dowitcher, and Ruddy Turnstone, that utilize the Banco dos Cajuais, a regionally important non-breeding site. The objectives are to assess local...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures (CFDA 15.637) Federal Grant Program, awarded a $504,888.67 Cooperative Agreement to the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) to support the Northern Forest Conservation Delivery Network. Specifically, the funding supports a Coordinator role within the Upper Mississippi Great Lakes Joint Venture (UMGL JV) to provide leadership, accelerate forest bird conservation and research initiatives, and collaborate with partners to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $234,110.53 to the National Audubon Society, Inc. to assess avian responses to forest management across the Upper Mississippi River System. The project aims to quantify the relationships between forest structure characteristics and bird species composition and abundance before and after habitat restoration and enhancement activities. Key activities include...