Category: Around the Web

Across the western U.S. and Canada, wildlife rehabilitation centers are reporting young birds of prey jumping out of their nests before they can fly to escape the region’s historic heat...

Wild pigs aren’t just destructive to property and the landscape. They may also contribute to climate change. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs release about 4.9 million metric...

Rabies appears to be on the rise among cattle in Texas. Biologists believe the disease, which can spread quickly through herds, is being spread by skunks. The College of Veterinary...

The Entomological Society of America no longer recognizes “gypsy moth” and “gypsy ant” as common names for the two insect species, saying the names contain a derogatory term for the...

In the 1970s, the pesticide DDT had decimated bald eagle populations in Colorado. Only one to four nests existed statewide, and none on the densely populated Front Range. Since then,...

Efforts to restore endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) to the wild have resumed after COVID-19 precautions brought the program nearly to a halt. Fourteen crane chicks are being raised in...

Starvation has driven a record number of manatee deaths in Florida in the first half of 2021. In the past six months, 841 West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) have died,...

Community scientists are having a difficult time observing even the most common birds amidst the smoke from wildfires on the West Coast. A team of scientists combined data from eBird,...

A protein inside songbirds’ eyes makes them sensitive to magnetic fields, researchers have confirmed, which may play a role in how the animals navigate. Physicists have hypothesized since the 1970s...

Intense deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest is pushing one of the world’s largest eagles to the brink of extinction in Brazil. The Amazon eagle (Harpia harpyja), known also as the...