Author: David Frey

December 29, 2020

Leave it to beavers for amphibians

As nonnative trout take exclude imperiled amphibians from lakes and ponds, and climate change causes many of the remaining ones to dry out early in the season, some amphibians are...

December 29, 2020

Year in Review: Pandemic redefines the profession

When a novel virus likely spread from a bat to humans in Wuhan, China, it unleashed a pandemic that would define 2020 for the world and showed us how intertwined...

December 17, 2020

Utah mink first known case of COVID virus in wild animal

A mink in Utah has become the first confirmed case of a wild animal infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. ProMED, a program of the International Society for Infectious...

November 12, 2020

Scientists release hundreds of bird genomes

Scientists from more than 100 institutions around the world have released genomic data for 363 bird species representing nearly all avian families. The species include widespread birds like the domestic...

November 12, 2020

Agencies agree to do more to conserve Mexican spotted owl

Under an agreement finalized last week, Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) populations in the Southwest will receive additional monitoring and conservation measures by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

November 12, 2020

Colorado prepares for wolf reintroduction

Wolves, largely absent from the Colorado landscape for more than a century, will roam the state again after voters narrowly approved a ballot issue to begin reintroduction efforts. “Definitely, people...

October 16, 2020

Watch: Conservationist release 26 scarlet macaws into wild

Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society have released 26 scarlet macaws into the wild in Guatemala to bolster the country’s small population of the birds. Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) are...

October 16, 2020

Wildlife Vocalizations: Emily Chavez

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. It is going to be uncomfortable to step into the void, to set...

October 16, 2020

TWS2020: How does fragmentation affect flying squirrels?

With their habitat broken up by farms and other land uses, southern flying squirrels have smaller densities in the Midwest, researchers found. “They are isolated by a highly fragmented system,”...

October 2, 2020

TWS concludes exciting week at Virtual Conference

It’s been an exciting week at The Wildlife Society’s 2020 Virtual Conference. More than 2,500 participants — a record number — took part in a week of informative symposia and...