Author: Dana Kobilinsky

April 26, 2019

eBird program informs songbird conservation across Americas

Citizen scientists involved in the eBird program are helping researchers identify the most important regions to focus conservation efforts across the Americas. “We need action, but we need to understand...

April 25, 2019

Coming north, blackpoll warblers leave threatened landscape

As blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) start to return to the Great Lakes Basin on a stopover to Alaska and northern Canada, attention is turning to their wintering grounds in South...

April 25, 2019

Chirping at night can put birds at greater collision risk

Birds that make faint, high-frequency flight calls during their nighttime migration are more likely than ones that don’t make these calls to collide with buildings, researchers found. “Flight calls are...

April 25, 2019

Coyotes are eating raccoons’ rabies vaccination bait

Coyotes (Canis latrans) and feral swine (Sus scrofa) have been unintentionally vaccinated by stealing bait intended to inoculate raccoons (Procyon lotor) from rabies in Florida. Wildlife managers believe that to...

April 25, 2019

USFWS reconsiders listing California and Nevada sage-grouse

In Sept. 2018, a federal judge in California vacated the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 decision not to list the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) population along the California-Nevada border under the...

April 24, 2019

Severe wildfires give a boost to native bees

The hottest flames may bring the most sting when it comes to native bee numbers, according to researchers in Oregon. “We basically found that there were both abundant bee communities...

April 24, 2019

New conservation agreement to benefit monarchs

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances, where transportation and energy partners around the country will work with the Service to address monarch butterfly...

April 24, 2019

NWF poll finds support for protecting wildlife routes

A recent poll conducted for the National Wildlife Federation found residents of Colorado and New Mexico supported protections of wildlife migration corridors. More than 84% of respondents said they would...

April 23, 2019

Student Research: Modeling habitats for endangered Indiana turtles

In northern Indiana, spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) face a number of human-caused threats. While habitat fragmentation, habitat loss and degradation, road mortality and even poaching...

April 23, 2019

Alabama Chapter to host birding workshop for beginners

The Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society, along with the Wehle Land Conservation Center, will be hosting a professional development program, “Beginner Birding Workshop,” on May 13-14 at the Wehle...