Category: Around the Web

The Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency plans to take the next step in determining why the turkey population in southern Middle Tennessee is declining. The state agency will collect tissues from...

A small falcon species made a rare visit to Virginia earlier this month, and literally arrived with a bang. A young Merlin falcon (Falco columbarius) that crash-landed was found and...

Researchers at Illinois State University are studying the impacts of BPA, a common chemical found in plastic, on red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans). Rachel Bowden, biology professor at the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has re-opened comments on the proposed listing of the black pinesnake as a threated species and the proposed designation of eight areas in...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing the endangered status of four subspecies of fox from the northern Channel Islands off the coast of California. While the studies...

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks plans to kick off a new campaign encouraging hunter ethics in fall of this year. Hunting ethics have been under scrutiny in...

Just because a brown bat is little doesn’t mean it’s not old. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources researchers recently discovered a little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) that was tagged 32...

Both Michigan and Wisconsin have filed appeals to a federal judge’s order restoring protection to gray wolves in the Great Lakes region. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was required...

After two years of struggling to study moose calves, Minnesota wildlife researchers plan to give the moose calves study another try this year after working out a few issues. Last...

Recent lab work has determined why turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) have been turning up comatose in wildlife clinics in northern California since last year. Researchers with the California Department of...