Category: TWS Wildlife News

Releasing captive-bred marmots into a “cushy” ski resort area for a year improves their chances of surviving predation and teaches them how to hibernate. “What we found is that you’re...

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a memorandum of understanding last week with Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security General Tô Lâm, committing both countries to fight wildlife trafficking. The agreement is intended...

As a Wildlife Services airport biologist working at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada, I recently heard from an enthusiastic birder, Tony Thacker, who had spotted a red-tailed hawk (Buteo...

One of the many benefits new technology offers is educational enrichment. Through Skype in the Classroom, students across the globe can connect with biologists and other scientists to get a...

Suburban life can be great for carnivores. There’s plenty of green space, and it can be fairly peaceful — as long as they get along with their neighbors. New research...

A half-century-long study on wildlife management has found that Americans increasingly value the rights of animals as traditional attitudes toward wildlife wane. The finding could have major implications for wildlife...

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...

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...

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...

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...