Migratory Bird Monitorying Assessment and Conservation

This notice is an announcement for issuing a single source financial assistance award to Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia. The intent of the award is to develop Best Management Practices for predation management of focal breeding shorebirds in North America. Improved predation management has been identified as top priority by the Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Initiative an effort developed and coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with over 50 partners. The Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Initiative implementation plan for predation focuses management efforts on four coastal temperate breeding shorebirds. American Oystercatcher Wilsons Plover Snowy Plover and the federally threatened Piping Plover.