Project Grant 22DG11100500081

This National Science Foundation award provides $159,259 to the University of Massachusetts Amherst through March 2024 to study the impacts of climate change and environmental pressures on long-distance migratory birds. Specifically, the award will support research tracking Hudsonian godwits throughout their annual migration cycle from Alaska to southern Chile using miniaturized tracking devices. The research aims to understand how changes occurring during different life cycle periods or...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635), awarded a $353,059 Project Grant to the Saskatchewan Natural History Society (doing business as Nature Saskatchewan) on May 20, 2024. This funding supports the organization's ongoing "STEWARDS OF SASKATCHEWAN FOR BIRD SPECIES AT RISK IX" initiative, which aims to protect and conserve neotropical migratory bird species and their habitats in...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) engages the Klamath Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization, to determine trends in bird communities within several national parks in southern Oregon and northern California. From 2026-2028, field crews will survey breeding bird populations in parks including Crater Lake, Lassen Volcanic, Redwood, and others, to identify bird species present, their relative...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $134,785.62 Cooperative Agreement to Birdlife International, a global non-profit conservation organization, under the Combating Wildlife Trafficking Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.679). The project aims to enhance collaboration among recipients of the Species Conservation Catalyst Fund, strengthen their capacity, and raise public awareness to reduce illegal and unsustainable international songbird trade, with a focus on...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI) awarded a $530,290.58 Project Grant under the Combating Wildlife Trafficking program (CFDA 15.679) to Sustainable Innovation Initiatives, Inc. (SII) to address the trade in neotropical songbirds for singing competitions in Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname. The 3-year project, awarded on June 5, 2024, will be carried out in partnership with Green Heritage Fund Suriname, Wildlife People Suriname, and the University of the West Indies School of Veterinary...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program will fund a $759,916 research project at Columbia University from January 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The project will examine the connection between migratory timing and resource availability in songbirds, in order to better understand how climate change is affecting the synchrony between migratory behaviors and environmental conditions. The research will estimate the plasticity and...

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...

This $934,994 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (NMBCA) program supports efforts by Birds Canada to improve knowledge and advance conservation opportunities for neotropical migratory birds in Ontario's boreal and adjoining forest regions. The two-year project, running from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026, will focus on activities such as habitat protection, restoration, species...

This $190,494 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635) will be used by Birds Canada to address conservation of the Bicknell's Thrush in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The key objectives are to: 1) facilitate communication between timber companies and regulators to implement best practices for preventing habitat degradation, 2) assess Bicknell's Thrush occupancy of potential...

This $144,768 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides funding to the Institute for Bird Populations to conduct avian research and monitoring in the Richfield Field Office of Utah. The purpose is to document the presence and seasonal trends of pinyon jay and other pinyon-juniper-sagebrush ecosystem bird species across areas that have undergone pinyon-juniper removal...