Texas Rookery Islands
Implementing Organization
State of Texas; US Department of the Interior
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$20,603,770
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees (NRDA)
Funding Program
Natural Resource Damage Assessment NRDA
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Species Restoration
Targeted Resources
Birds/Bird Habitat
Project Description
The Texas Rookery Islands project restores and protects three rookery islands in Galveston Bay and one rookery island in East Matagorda Bay using coastal engineering techniques. The project partially compensates for injuries to birds by increasing nesting pairs of colonial waterbirds, including the brown pelican, laughing gull, royal tern, sandwich tern, great blue heron, roseate spoonbill, reddish egret, great egret, snowy egret, tricolored heron, and black-crowned night heron. Restoration actions will expand the size of the islands and enhance the quality of habitat for nesting birds, increasing the amount of available nesting habitat. Habitat longevity will be increased by raising island elevations and constructing protective features, such as breakwaters or armoring levees.
Contact
Luke Anthis(251) 517-8002
luke_anthis@fws.gov
Project Website
None
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