Tag: migration

Hunting season in south-central Wyoming doesn’t seem to impact the timing of migration for mule deer, but it does seem to prompt bucks to seek areas away from roads used...

Researchers have long thought that migrating species pay a cost for the energy they spend making long journeys. But what exactly is the tradeoff for these journeys? And what role...

New maps documenting migration routes throughout the West can help inform managers and conservation groups about areas that are important for deer, elk and other migratory species in the region....

Hundreds of migrating ducks and other waterfowl were struck by vehicles in northwest Iowa after mistaking wet parking lots and roads for wetlands. “I counted over 200 dead ducks on...

Where do Indiana bats migrate in the spring? Not much has been known about their migration behaviors, and most of that has been gathered from recovering bands. To find out...

Butterfly researchers agree that the disappearance of milkweed in North America has harmed monarch butterflies. Monarchs rely on the plant as a host for their caterpillars. But while some scientists...

Climate change — and the frequent and intense extreme weather it can bring —  influences some birds differently than others. In a study published in Global Change Biology, researchers tapped...

The Department of the Interior is making progress in protecting winter range and migration corridors for big game across the West since a 2018 Secretarial Order was signed, a new...

One fall when Josée Rousseau was banding birds as a field technician at a station in Northern California, she was surprised to capture rufous hummingbirds. The species migrates from breeding...

If anyone is appreciating the lack of activity associated with the pandemic lockdowns, it may be amphibians. Traffic can be deadly for amphibians migrating each spring in the northeastern United...