Month: December 2019

Confusion between lynx and bobcats, snakes tied into knots and wildlife diseases affecting deer, frogs and turtles reached the forefront of reader interest in 2019 at The Wildlife Society. As...

About 75 white deer occupy a former Army depot in New York’s Finger Lakes region. The deer are leucistic — they lack the normal pigment that makes other white-tailed deer...

The Wildlife Society Bulletin is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management and...

Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) have long plagued the South. They’ve made inroads in Canada. Now, residents worry they threaten to spread outside Canada into border states like Montana and North...

Big brown bats may be taking over the ecological food niche of little brown bats due to the latter’s greater susceptibility to a deadly fungal pathogen. “We’ve gone from a...

Small fences are keeping predators away from endangered songbird nests in Florida, buying the birds precious time while wildlife managers organize a larger landscape-wide conservation plan. “Reducing the predation by...

Can virtual reality help researchers better protect wildlife habitats? Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology combined VR with aerial thermal imaging and ground surveys to build a statistical model...

Given the dangers that wildlife can pose to aviation, federal recommendations suggests a buffer zone around runways free of things can could attract animals. But at Midway Airport in Chicago,...

From tracking endangered species to writing for the Missouri Conservationist magazine over the summer, members of The Wildlife Society’s Northwest Missouri State University Student Chapter gained field experience through interning...

Concerned that Americans were overharvesting birds, New York ornithologist Frank Chapman started the Christmas Bird Count in 1900 as an alternative to a Christmas tradition of hunting birds. This year...