Category: TWS Wildlife News

July 17, 2018

Mixed severity fire best for birds in Sierra Nevada

Like Goldilocks, birds prefer it just right when it comes to severity and time after wildfires, researchers found. Some like it hot. Some not so much. To accommodate a diversity...

July 13, 2018

Human factors stand in the way of wildlife crossings

In western Canada, it’s not unusual to find structures built to help wildlife cross busy highways. But in Ontario, where the wildlife tends to be smaller but the urban populations...

July 12, 2018

By listening to bats, biologists shed new light on them

When Ted Weller saw the blips that appeared on the digital map, they suggested to him something bat biologists had suspected but could never see. The black spots over Montana...

July 12, 2018

USFWS proposes changes to red wolf management

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced potential changes to the management of a nonessential experimental population of red wolves (Canis rufus) found in North Carolina. Public comments on the...

July 11, 2018

2018 Farm Bill heads to conference committee

The Senate has passed its version of the 2018 Farm Bill, sending it to a conference committee to work out differences with a House bill and return a single bill...

July 11, 2018

AI anticipates spring bird arrival as Arctic climate shifts

As temperatures rise and the Arctic climate becomes more unpredictable, birds could be following the shifting spring and showing up to nest off schedule. Researchers recently developed machine learning approaches...

July 11, 2018

JWM: Bats respond differently to abandoned mine gates

About 80,000 abandoned mines remain in the landscape of the Southwest. These sites can be dangerous to people that come across or enter them, but bats use these abandoned mines...

July 10, 2018

Wildlife Services series highlights tools, techniques

In 2016, USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services launched a new, online peer-reviewed technical series on wildlife damage management. Four titles have been added this year. The series consists of articles written by...

July 9, 2018

Biologists fight for Canadian national bird

Last year, wildlife biologist Dan Strickland searched documents in the Smithsonian Institute basement to determine how the Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) became renamed the gray jay. In an effort to...

July 6, 2018

Study finds polar bears aren’t so wasteful when walking

With declines in sea ice that polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the arctic require to subsist, researchers have seen accounts of bears traveling farther north. But what do these longer...