Month: December 2019

When birds strike buildings in Chicago, they sometimes end up in the Field Museum of Natural History, where they’re kept as specimens. This unique collection has helped give researchers a...

Conservationists can attract threatened terns to nesting habitat safe from invasive predators in New Zealand by deploying fake bird models and using speaker systems to play bird sounds. Black-fronted terns...

Recent passage of the U.S. House of Representatives passed the North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (H.R. 925) would reauthorize and increase funding for the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, which...

The New Mexico State Game Commission has approved a ban on cougar (Puma concolor) trapping. The changes are for the 2020-2024 seasons and will be revisited in four years under...

Wildlife managers have discovered a previously unknown population of potentially endangered foxes high in the mountains of California, according to preliminary results presented in a poster session at the 2019...

Gray wolves (Canis lupus) translocated to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan are finding plenty of prey, researchers found. Studying the remains of prey the wolves had consumed, biologists found...

The Wildlife Society sent a letter to the Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt last week, expressing concern about the plan to relocate the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters to...

Under the best of circumstances, bats can be tricky to study. In North Dakota, where caves are few and bats may roost wherever they can find a rocky crevice, it...

The Wildlife Society, alongside the U.S. Forest Service, a Premier Partner of TWS, has announced new Native American Research Assistantships for Summer 2020. This is the sixth year for the...

How do you find an animal so rare or elusive that it evades even the most patient researcher or the most well-placed camera trap? Increasingly, though, scientists are finding success...