Wildlife Road Mortality Estimation at Gulf Islands National Seashore

Post Date

May 20th 2013

Application Due Date

May 25th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

NPS-13-NERO-0031

CFDA Number(s)

15.945

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Other

This is not a solicitation for application - this is an announcement that SUNY College has already been identified as the recipient of this award that addresses the environment.

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

This is not a solicitation for application - this is an announcement that SUNY College has already been identified as the recipient of this award that addresses the environment.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $30000

• Award Range:

  $30000 - $30000

Grant Description

In addition to the draft reports and final submission, the Cooperator will: ╔ Conduct field seasons in summer 2013 between 15 May and 15 July. ╔ Conduct daytime road transect surveys by car three times per week in late May and early June during daylight and nighttime surveys twice per week. ╔ Survey approximately every 3 п 4 hours. ╔ Identify and count all other migratory bird, small mammal, and reptile carcasses encountered on the roadway to facilitate recordkeeping of such mortalities for GUIS. ╔ Place adult and juvenile quail carcasses (received frozen from raptor food suppliers) on the road at random locations during each survey, to increase our sample size for estimating carcass scavenging rates. ╔ Conduct band resighting surveys, three times/week, in all potential Snowy Plover habitat to search for Snowy Plovers banded in previous years at GUIS and other sites in the Panhandle. ╔ Capture any unmarked adult SNPL on nests and uniquely mark them with 2 colored plastic bands.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Keith Zotti
  Partnership Program Specialist
  Phone 2155979153

• Agency Mailing Address:

  SUNY GUIS Study

• Agency Email Address:

  keith_zotti@nps.gov