Category: TWS Wildlife News

Which is riskier for airports— a solar array or a grassy field? To better understand how the land around airports might affect the risk of bird-aircraft collisions, USDA Wildlife Services’...

In a recent study, researchers at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources identified new ways to prevent the spread...

Researchers have discovered several bird species that host ticks carrying Lyme disease bacteria in northwestern California as well as another pathogen that causes chronic illness in humans. “The role of...

Researchers with South Dakota State University are finishing up a three-year study funded by the South Dakota Department of Fish, Game and Parks and the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station...

Gull populations off Canada’s southwest coast have dropped by half since the 1980s, likely due to a decline in quality food, according to a new study. But at the risk...

Scientists are calling for an emergency plan to protect the fauna of Madagascar after a fungal disease that has laid waste to vast populations of amphibians across the world has...

Florida’s state wildlife agency has created a draft plan to manage 60 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and other aquatic life. The Imperiled Species Management Plan released last...

While prehistoric turtles may have been fast enough to win the race against climate change, a new study shows that habitat loss and other human pressures may put serious obstacles...

Way before we had TV shows or manufactured board games, bowhunting may have been the pastime that brought communities together and marked individual prestige in societies. New archaeological evidence suggests...

After conducting laboratory, field, and modeling studies, researchers at the University of South Florida recently found that biodiversity of predators that consume parasites, such as dragonflies, damselflies, and aquatic bugs,...