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Opportunity Summary:

The Migratory Bird Monitoring Assessment and Conservation opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F16AS00253) is a U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI-FWS) discretionary funding announcement designed to support collaborative work that conserves, enhances, and improves understanding of migratory bird species, their ecology, and the habitats they depend on. The program is framed around practical conservation outcomes as well as monitoring and assessment, with an emphasis on projects that generate usable information for management decisions and on-the-ground habitat or species benefits. Because the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, recipients should expect substantial involvement from the federal agency during the project, which typically means coordination on planning, methods, deliverables, and how results are applied to broader conservation priorities.

Funding under this opportunity can be used for conservation activities benefiting any bird species protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Within that broad eligibility, the announcement highlights a clear preference for work focused on species identified in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation and management priority documents. In practice, this signals that proposals aligned with established priority species lists, monitoring needs, or targeted management actions are more likely to be competitive, especially if they address documented population concerns, key habitat bottlenecks, or priority research and monitoring gaps identified by the Service and its partners.

A central theme is implementation of bird conservation planning at multiple scales. The notice points applicants toward projects that help carry out national, regional, and flyway-level strategies, including Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs), as well as state-level bird conservation plans. That means strong proposals typically connect their goals and methods to these existing frameworks rather than operating in isolation. Examples of the kinds of work implied by the title and description include monitoring programs that track population status and trends, assessments that evaluate habitat conditions and limiting factors, applied research that improves understanding of migratory bird ecology, and conservation actions that protect, restore, or enhance habitat in ways that measurably benefit priority species. The program’s emphasis on “working with others” also suggests that partnerships and coordination across agencies, NGOs, and other stakeholders are important, especially when addressing migratory birds that cross jurisdictional boundaries.

The opportunity was posted June 1, 2016, with an application closing date of June 7, 2016. It anticipated a single award, with a maximum (award ceiling) of $400,000. The funding activity category is listed as Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and the CFDA number associated with the program is 15.655. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations (both with and without 501(c)(3) status, excluding institutions of higher education) and private institutions of higher education. Overall, the program is aimed at supporting one coordinated project that advances migratory bird conservation priorities through monitoring, assessment, and/or applied conservation implementation, tightly aligned with USFWS priority frameworks and established bird conservation plans.

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