Month: June 2016

Crumbs on a picnic table may seem like a minor way to alter an ecosystem, but they and other campground refuse are enough to restructure how jays use space, according...

Although Pollinator Week just ended, bees in Arkansas are still going strong, and so is an ambitious research project documenting them, the University of Arkansas’s Research Frontiers blog reports. TWS...

The natural succession of tall, woody shrub vegetation in the last 50 or so years at an isolated wetland site in upstate New York has reduced the number of basking...

Researchers have known for quite a while that migrating ungulates spend their winters lower where it’s warmer and their summers higher up on mountain tops where it’s cooler. They also...

Skip Ambrose hasn’t missed an American peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) nesting season in 40 years. Through binoculars and spotting scopes, he has watched the population on the upper Yukon River...

The June 2016 issue (Vol. 40.2) of the Wildlife Society Bulletin contains 13 original articles as well as nine papers on tools and technology, three opinion pieces and two notes...

Good news! Not only do you get to visit the great state of North Carolina for TWS 2016, but you get to visit during one of the most spectacular times...

The House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands held an oversight hearing entitled “Challenges and Potential Solutions for BLM’s Wild Horse & Burro Program” last week to discuss...

What do basketball teams and bluebirds have in common? Both may gain a “home-court advantage” from competing on their own ground. A new study found that at newly placed nest...

Tucked away in the National Wildlife Research Center’s (NWRC) genetics laboratory, biologist Dr. Tim Smyser opens a box from USDA Wildlife Services field specialists in Florida. It could have come...