Category: TWS Wildlife News

August 15, 2017

Motorboats disrupt cooperation between cleaner fish and their clients

The world of cleaners and clients sounds more like one of domestic labor than of coral reefs, but the unique symbiotic relationship between cleaner fish and their clients helps keep...

August 14, 2017

Native American youth learn trapping in summer program

In late June, Wildlife Services specialist Marty Federick presented an afternoon of trapping demonstrations to young people participating in the Choctaw Youth Conservation Corps (CYCC) at the invitation of the...

August 11, 2017

Students confirm northern saw-whet owl in Newfoundland

Brendan Kelly, a student of the fish and wildlife technical program at the College of the North Atlantic in Newfoundland, has been birdwatching and setting up nest boxes since he...

August 10, 2017

Don’t forget the soil fauna

When U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station research ecologist Mac Callaham and post-doctoral researcher David Coyle, D.B. Warnell School of Forest Resources, were teaching a class together at the University...

August 10, 2017

Proposal released to recover Canadian boreal caribou

A proposed action plan was released in late July by Environment and Climate Change Canada to recover and conserve the boreal population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou). The plan...

August 9, 2017

Review team submits sage-grouse management recommendations

The U.S. Department of the Interior released a report, developed by the Sage-Grouse Review Team, which provides an assessment of the 2015 federal Greater Sage-Grouse plans and makes recommendations for...

August 9, 2017

To save species, less deforested landscapes need more focus

To benefit wildlife the most, conservation efforts are better spent limiting deforestation in intact forests than tackling areas where deforestation has already occurred, a new global modeling study suggests. “If...

August 8, 2017

Birds at greater risk of hitting windows in rural areas

Nearly 1 billion birds in North America are estimated to die annually from striking windows or building exteriors, and researchers conducting a recent comprehensive study of the phenomenon found the...

August 8, 2017

DNA from flies helps survey mammal species

Who needs drones when you have flies? Traditional survey methods can be expensive and difficult to conduct, but a team of researchers found studying carrion flies can reveal which mammals...

August 4, 2017

Study shows multilevel natural selection in red squirrels

North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) born earlier than those in nearby litters are more likely to survive because they get a head start on finding a vacant territory to...