Category: TWS Wildlife News

Over the last few years, local news stations and publications in North Carolina’s New Hanover County have featured stories on coyote-human conflict. Even social media and a mobile app that...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will delay implementation of the final rule reducing northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) critical habitat in Washington, Oregon and California, they announced earlier...

A recent U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing for Representative Deb Haaland, President Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, will help the Senate make a decision...

The tips of watersnakes’ tails retain levels of mercury that could indicate how contaminated rivers and streams are with toxins. “One of the advantage of brown watersnakes is they have...

Golden eagles that spend their winters in western Montana are overwhelmingly exposed to lead contamination. “Almost the entire population has been exposed to lead,” said Robert Domenech, executive director of...

Some studies have documented insect declines. Others have documented bird declines. But scientists hadn’t connected the two — until recently. In a study published in Ornithological Applications, researchers found that...

Increasing frequency and length of snow droughts in Washington state may be linked to hoary marmot population declines. “Hoary marmots are one of many subnivean species that may be stressed...

Hunting season in south-central Wyoming doesn’t seem to impact the timing of migration for mule deer, but it does seem to prompt bucks to seek areas away from roads used...

Fence lizards in Alabama are evolving stronger immune systems in response to decades of coping with the venom from invasive fire ants, but they may also become more vulnerable to...

A picture can be worth a thousand words when finding imagery to promote the conservation of animals that aren’t the most charismatic. Researchers recently found that photographs of bats, especially...