Month: July 2017

If you look at a map of the city of Albuquerque and surrounding areas, you would likely notice the multiple Native American reservations that dot the landscape north and south...

Physicists may not be the scientists you’d expect to tackle conservation issues, but a group of them recently used modeling technique to show how species — even ones that are...

The 20th Annual Quiz Bowl will take place Monday and Tuesday during the TWS Annual Conference in Albuquerque, NM. As a participant or as a member of the audience, you’ll...

I had been walking with a graduate student through second-growth, mature pine forests in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas since sunrise. We were conducting a spring bird survey, stopping...

Sitting at 8,500 feet in the remote Jemez Mountains less than two hours from downtown Albuquerque, the Valles Caldera National Preserve sweeps across thousands of grassland acres dotted with grazing...

Over 50 years ago, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Chan Robbins was looking for a scientific way to measure changes in bird populations. Surveys like the Christmas bird count...

Robert Schorr, a zoologist with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University, was having coffee with a few colleagues, including another bat biologist, when he had an idea....

When Elizabeth Hunter was doing her dissertation at the University of Georgia on the effects of sea-level rise on coastal birds, including seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus), she noticed a lot...

Higher than normal sea surface temperatures may compromise California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) pups’ immune systems, according to new research. During a sea surface temperature anomaly during 2014 and 2015...

David Bernhardt has been confirmed as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. On Jul. 24, the U.S. Senate voted 53 to 43 in favor of Bernhardt’s...