Mariana Crow Monitoring | F19AS00174

Opportunity Information: Apply for F19AS00174

The "Mariana Crow Monitoring" grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F19AS00174) was a Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discretionary funding announcement focused on addressing a steep decline in the Mariana Crow population on the island of Rota. The core problem driving the project is that the population has fallen by about 90 percent since the 1980s, and the decline is closely tied to low survival during the first year of life. In other words, too few young crows are making it through their earliest, most vulnerable stage, which threatens the long-term viability of the remaining population.

A major concern highlighted in the opportunity is a recurring, poorly understood inflammatory disease that appears to be killing juvenile crows. Based on necropsies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center between 2009 and 2018, this disease was the leading identified cause of death among examined juveniles, and the pathology suggests an infectious agent may be involved. The announcement underscores how serious and immediate the threat is by noting that twenty crow carcasses have already shown evidence of this disease, which is roughly 10 percent of the current population. That detail signals both the rarity of the species at this point and the outsized impact that even a small number of deaths can have on recovery efforts.

In practical terms, the funding was intended to support monitoring and related work that would improve understanding of mortality patterns and disease impacts in the Mariana Crow population on Rota, with the broader goal of informing conservation and recovery actions. The activity sits within environmental and natural resource categories (including information and statistics), reflecting a combination of field monitoring, data collection, and analysis needed to track population status and investigate causes of juvenile mortality.

Administratively, the award was structured as a cooperative agreement, which usually indicates substantial involvement or collaboration from the federal agency during the project rather than a hands-off grant. The opportunity was listed as open eligibility (unrestricted, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications), anticipated a single award, and had an award ceiling of $174,692. The posting dates indicate it was created on April 8, 2019, with an original closing date of April 13, 2019, and the notice states that the recipient had already been selected, meaning it was no longer accepting proposals at the time of the listing.

• The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, information and statistics, natural resources, recovery act sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Mariana Crow Monitoring" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.657.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 08, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 13, 2019 The recipient has been selected.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $174,692.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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