Project Grant F21AP01641

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department received a $714,135 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611). The grant will fund a tracking study of the Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The study aims to address changes in the species' winter distribution patterns at both larger and smaller geographic scales,...

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 University of Saskatchewan received a $169,683 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). The award will fund a 3-year effort to explore black duck breeding biology and habitat use to benefit existing work on black ducks throughout their annual cycle. Key objectives include deploying 104 GPS tracking devices on black ducks, adapting machine learning algorithms to identify breeding 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...

The University of Saskatchewan received a $498,525 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters. The award was made under the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures program (CFDA 15.637) to support the project "ASCRIBING THE IMPORTANCE OF ATLANTIC BRANT STAGING AREAS FOR HOLISTIC CONSERVATION PLANNING" from July 15, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The objectives of this project are to conduct research that will help protect,...

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...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded Point Blue Conservation Science $877,197 on September 1, 2026, under the Polar Programs assistance program (CFDA 47.078) to conduct collaborative research on Adélie penguin population dynamics across two Antarctic regions. The project deploys tracking tags on young penguins to reveal first-migration routes and survival rates, retrieves recording devices from adults to document molt timing, dive depth, and feeding frequency...

Federal Grant Award Summary The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI FWS) Region 2 awarded the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) a formula grant of $1.18 million under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) for the period January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028. This award funds a comprehensive research initiative to generate critical data on resident Canada goose (Branta canadensis) movements and...

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure, under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), provides $827,019 to the University of Massachusetts to develop models and algorithms for inferring bird population movements from citizen science data. Leveraging billions of bird observations from the eBird citizen science project, the awardee will create computational tools to simulate migratory routes and produce movement...