Author: Carson Maness

As funding is harder and harder to find for wildlife researchers, some are searching for novel ways to conduct their studies. In a new study published in the Wildlife Society...

Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has proposed a hunting season for double-crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auratus). Provincial management of cormorants varies, with some allowing hunting and other managing the...

Northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have been declining mysteriously throughout their range. In Texas, biologists have watched their numbers fall for three decades, but they’ve been unable to determine why. In...

It has stumped scientists, and it must be pretty disconcerting to the involved parties, too. On a few occasions, biologists in the Hawaiian Islands have come across an odd phenomenon:...

The Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister) is threatened or endangered across much of its geographic range, but it’s found a refuge in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, which has plenty of rocky...

In early November while conducting a wildlife survey at a western Massachusetts airbase, I was surprised to see a capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) grazing in the grass on a secured recreational-use...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) stopping over in Florida while traveling north have declined 80 percent since 2005, according to a new study. The monarchs stop in Florida on their spring...

Officials believe red tide is likely behind the death of more than 22 bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncates) that washed up dead on Southwest Florida beaches last month. Officials with the...

Bustling cities like Chicago are not usually known for their wildlife, but Cooper’s (Accipiter cooperii) and sharp-shinned hawks (Accipiter striatus) have been establishing populations in the city. In Chicago, researchers...

Some 1.4 million white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) roam in Missouri today, but less than a century ago, their numbers had dwindled to the verge of extirpation. It would be understandable,...