Category: TWS Wildlife News

Marshes are as particular as goldilocks, Duke University researcher Anna E. Braswell says. If they never get flooded, they’ll turn into uplands. But if they get flooded too much, they’ll...

If you follow the lunar new year, the year of the pig has recently begun. But should it really be the year of the bird? OK, the National Geographic Society...

Decades of sediment built up deep under Arctic ponds can reveal the size of past seabird populations and how harvesting has impacted their numbers over the decades. “We can track...

The effects of bright cities on migratory birds isn’t something to take lightly, but the biggest cities may not have the biggest impact on long-term journeys.  Instead, cities that lie...

Some 57 million households in the United States have birdfeeders. The food can benefit the birds, but what effect do birdfeeders have on the people who hang them, fill them...

Historic trade of critically endangered hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) may have caused declines nearly six times greater than previously thought, according to new research. The researchers said the historical...

Over the last two decades, the number of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in North America has plummeted by approximately 90 percent — in part due to winter habitat loss in Mexico and increased...

Decades of records of grizzly bears preying on cattle and other livestock on grazing land in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have revealed some key ways to limit livestock losses.  “Conflicts...

The story of the wolf’s (Canis lupus) return to Yellowstone National Park has become legend. Their reintroduction brought a cascade of healthy impacts to the ecosystem. They reduced the elk...

Modern tracking devices can be tiny, but they can still have effects on some of the birds fitted with them, researchers found, although those impacts are sometimes overlooked. This blind...