Deepwater Horizon NRDAR Caribbean nesting bird RFP September 15, 2016

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1 Deepwater Horizon NRDAR Caribbean nesting bird RFP September 15, 2016 Brian Spears US Fish and Wildlife Service Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Office

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5 American White Pelican Brown Pelican Herring Gull Laughing Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Ring-billed Gull Audubon's Shearwater Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Brown Booby Great Shearwater Leach's Storm-Petrel Magnificent Frigatebird Manx Shearwater Masked Booby Northern Gannet Parasitic Jaeger Red-billed Tropicbird Sooty Shearwater White-tailed Tropicbird Wilson's Storm-petrel American Coot Clapper Rail Common Gallinule Purple Gallinule Sora Virginia Rail Osprey American Avocet American Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Black-necked Stilt Least Sandpiper Long-Billed Dowitcher Piping Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Snowy Plover Spotted Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Willet Wilson's Plover Black Skimmer Black Tern Bridled Tern Brown Noddy Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Gull-billed Tern Least Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Sooty Tern Black-crowned Night-heron Cattle Egret Great Blue Heron Glossy Ibis Great Egret Green Heron Least Bittern Roseate Spoonbill Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron White Ibis Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck Blue-winged Teal Bufflehead Canada Goose Fulvous Whistling-Duck Green-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Mallard Mottled Duck Red-Breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Surf Scoter Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Belted Kingfisher Boat-tailed Grackle Red-winged Blackbird Seaside Sparrow Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Reddish Egret Killdeer Dunlin Little Blue Heron

6 DRAFT/DELIBERATIVE, ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT, ATTORNEY CLIENT SETTLEMENT COMMUNICATION NRDAR: Restoration Planning April 4, 2016 : $20.8 billion global settlement, including up to $8.8B NRDA NRDA Restoration Planning: inventory possible restoration actions local and regional restoration plans input from bird resource experts public submissions evaluate alternatives (e.g., nexus, cost, benefits; OPA , ) scale restoration actions

7 NRDAR: Restoration Planning Injured species needs assessment Target areas Target actions Selection and Implementation NRDAR scaling: nesting acres/survival = birds DRAFT/DELIBERATIVE, ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT, ATTORNEY CLIENT SETTLEMENT COMMUNICATION

8 American White Pelican Brown Pelican Herring Gull Laughing Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Ring-billed Gull Audubon's Audubon s Shearwater Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Cory's Shearwater Brown Booby Great Shearwater Leach's Storm-Petrel Magnificent Frigatebird Manx Shearwater Masked Booby Northern Gannet Parasitic Jaeger Red-billed Tropicbird Sooty Shearwater White-tailed Tropicbird Wilson's Storm-petrel American Coot Clapper Rail Common Gallinule Purple Gallinule Sora Virginia Rail Osprey American Avocet American Oystercatcher Black-bellied Plover Black-necked Stilt Least Sandpiper Long-Billed Dowitcher Piping Plover Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semipalmated Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Snowy Plover Spotted Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Willet Wilson's Plover Black Skimmer Black Tern Bridled Tern Brown Noddy Caspian Tern Common Tern Forster's Tern Gull-billed Tern Least Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Sooty Tern Black-crowned Night-heron Cattle Egret Great Blue Heron Glossy Ibis Great Egret Green Heron Least Bittern Roseate Spoonbill Snowy Egret Tricolored Heron White Ibis Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black-Bellied Whistling-Duck Blue-winged Teal Bufflehead Canada Goose Fulvous Whistling-Duck Green-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Mallard Mottled Duck Red-Breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Surf Scoter Double-crested Cormorant Neotropic Cormorant Belted Kingfisher Boat-tailed Grackle Red-winged Blackbird Seaside Sparrow Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Reddish Egret Killdeer Dunlin Little Blue Heron

9 Audubon s Shearwater Brown Booby Magnificent Frigatebird Masked Booby White-tailed Tropicbird Common name Estimated losses (individual birds) Audubon s Shearwater Sooty Tern Magnificent Frigatebird Bridled Tern Masked Booby Brown Noddy Bridled Tern White-tailed Brown Tropicbird Noddy 5-9 Brown Booby 2 Sooty Tern

10 NRDAR: Frequently Asked Questions When are project ideas needed? Now (requested by Oct 1) and always until injuries are restored When is the funding coming? Suggested earliest funding date late 2017 What is the time limit for projects? None Can projects be implemented outside the U.S.? Yes! What type of projects can I implement? Any that provide services to target bird species Prioritize quantifiable increases in productivity or survival What can the funding be used for? Salary, contracts, equipment, etc as approved by the trustees How can I get more information? RFP Final PDARP: Brian Spears: brian_spears@fws.gov; Common name Estimated losses (individual birds) Audubon s Shearwater Sooty Tern Magnificent Frigatebird Bridled Tern Masked Booby Brown Noddy White-tailed Tropicbird 5-9 Brown Booby 2