Month: August 2021

The Biden Administration has nominated Charles “Chuck” Sams III as the director of the National Park Service. If confirmed, Sams would be the first Native American to hold that post....

Blood on predatory merlins’ beaks and talons is revealing the prey that propel merlins on their annual migrations. Merlins migrate between the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska down as...

Southeastern sandhill cellophane bees are so rare that they were only discovered in 1997 in Florida, and just a single specimen was discovered in Georgia that same year. But researchers...

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. I grew up in a small, one room Hogan (a traditional, sacred house...

Even at Manassas National Battlefield Park, it’s hard to get a glimpse of a bobwhite, although its namesake call can be heard throughout the grasslands. For decades, the northern Virginia...

Invasive species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Sometimes, they can be their own worst enemies, too. In Australia, the cane toad (Rhinella marina) was brought in to keep down...

These updates originally appeared in the Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Spring 2021 newsletter. Student Chapter reports: University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society Submitted by Cole...

Tree swallows are ingesting various types of pesticides through their insect diet, even when they don’t live near large industrial farms where the chemicals are most prevalent. “There is strong...

The rattlesnake’s shaking rattle can send shivers down the spine of anyone who gets close. But get even closer and the rattling picks up speed. It may be a trick...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is reconsidering preventing new mining, drilling or other mineral extraction in areas identified as important for sage-grouse management. The agency’s 2015 plan for management...