Category: TWS Wildlife News

May 10, 2017

Ducks’ chemical signatures point to importance of Canadian delta

Most people don’t know much about central Canada’s Saskatchewan River Delta, but new research analyzing chemical ratios in duck feathers highlights how this massive wetland between Saskatchewan and Manitoba serves...

May 10, 2017

New programs tackle Burmese pythons in Florida

Florida wildlife officials have launched a number of new initiatives to tackle the spread of the invasive Burmese python, an introduced species that has been impacting native wildlife in the...

May 9, 2017

Canvasback connects ‘sister refuges’ in AK, CA

At first glance, an urban national wildlife refuge on the coast of California and a remote refuge in the interior of Alaska don’t seem to have much in common. Take...

May 9, 2017

Zinke orders BLM to revise planning and NEPA processes

On Mar. 27, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a memo directing the Bureau of Land Management to revise and improve its processes for land use planning and environmental analysis under...

May 8, 2017

Rare bat species adapts to disturbed habitat

Two researchers at a time walked through the swampy waters of the bottomland hardwood forest in South Carolina on a mission to find a rare, sensitive bat species — the...

May 4, 2017

JWM study: Non-perching birds avoid gas wells

Grassland songbirds have suffered more declines than any other group of birds in North America because swaths of their habitat have been degraded by agriculture and development, including natural gas...

May 3, 2017

JWM study: Dispersal spreads wolves throughout the West

When Diane Boyd arrived in Montana in 1979, the northern Rockies had just one wolf. A lone female wolf, it had wandered from Canada, possibly from as far as Banff...

May 3, 2017

JWM study: Gunshot mortalities threaten NC red wolves

Due to habitat conversion and predator eradication, North Carolina’s red wolves (Canis rufus) have for decades remained some of the world’s most endangered canids. A new study suggests that many...

May 3, 2017

New wetland conservation grants approved under NAWCA

On Apr. 26, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a press release announcing that the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved $17.8 million in grants under the North American...

May 2, 2017

Birds change song to be heard above traffic noise

Vehicles are a major source of noise pollution for urban wildlife. That’s particularly a problem for birds that have to compete with the roar of engines to communicate. Recent research...