Tag: surveys

When scientists from around the globe shared their expertise on biodiversity in their corners of the world, they discovered that biodiversity loss may be worse than originally thought. Past research...

Over the last few years, local news stations and publications in North Carolina’s New Hanover County have featured stories on coyote-human conflict. Even social media and a mobile app that...

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Several bird surveys have been canceled...

In Phoenix, Arizona, many people feel either neutral about bees or dislike them, researchers found, but overall, residents don’t see bees as a problem in their yards. The researchers hope...

A half-century-long study on wildlife management has found that Americans increasingly value the rights of animals as traditional attitudes toward wildlife wane. The finding could have major implications for wildlife...

As funding is harder and harder to find for wildlife researchers, some are searching for novel ways to conduct their studies. In a new study published in the Wildlife Society...

Current methods of monitoring feral horses and burros can be dangerous for the people conducting aerial surveys and disturbing to animals.  Helicopters have to fly at low elevations — 50 to 200 feet above ground level — to allow biologists to observe...

After a decades-long recovery, California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) are dwindling again due to climate-driven reductions in prey, a recent long-term study shows. Centuries of human exploitation had once suppressed...

Ever since they learned that the monarch butterfly’s swift decline is tied to reductions in its host plant, conservationists have been planting milkweed alongside roads to boost the pollinator’s population....

Recording bird sounds by drone might be a good way to survey birds in hard-to-reach areas, according to new research. In a study published in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, researchers...