Category: TWS Wildlife News

For a project mapping the distribution of bobcats (Lynx rufus) and lynx (Lynx canadensis) in British Columbia, researcher TJ Gooliaff was using images — from trail cameras, camera phones and...

Citizen science is growing in wildlife biology, providing an inexpensive, efficient way to collect large amounts of data. But how should researchers use it effectively? In a presentation titled, “Population...

After California’s Rim Fire burned through Yosemite National Park and Stanislaus National Forest in 2013, managers wondered what impact it had on wildlife in the region. The 104,000-hectare fire was...

Site visits are critical to helping scientists learn more about species and their habitats. The trips often take them into areas most people do not have a chance to explore,...

It has been over 300 years since Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) and Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) colonies were detected on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Neither have been found since European...

The deadline to submit nominations for 2019 TWS Fellows and Group Achievement Awards is this Friday, Feb. 1, by 11:59 p.m. EST. Nominate a respected colleague you believe will continue...

As drought, climate change and increases in soil salinity are causing farmland to become retired in California, the idled lands could provide landscapes for the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia...

The William L. Hutcheson Memorial Forest is a rare piece of land in New Jersey. Set aside by Dutch settlers in 1701, it is an uncut tract of old growth...

A few years ago, University of Guelph researcher Elizabeth Gow’s work wouldn’t have been possible. But improvements in technology allowed biologists to fit tiny tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)with even tinier...

More people are having a greater influence on natural resource issues than ever before, which is good. People want to do what is best yet are not necessarily familiar with...