Category: TWS Wildlife News

A combination of climate warming and loss of sea otters is harming the reefs that underpin Alaskan kelp forests in the Aleutian Islands. “Despite the fact that the Aleutian Archipelago...

Caspian terns with a taste for young salmon are resisting many of the management efforts put forth to protect imperiled salmon in the fishery. The seabirds nest on small islands...

Researchers reveal a strong signal that ospreys nesting on cellphone towers have similar productivity and success rates when raising young than their counterparts nesting in other areas. “We determined that...

Erin Wampole heard the trumpeting sounds of indri (Indri indri) calling to one another in the Madagascan tropical forests. The large lemurs were her morning alarm clock, waking her up...

Mitigation measures to maintain ponds in Nevada meadows help the survival of a desert frog species experiencing increasing impacts from climate change-driven droughts. “Drought is one the greatest threats to...

Biologists often use camera traps to monitor wildlife populations. But can they also be used to detect disease? Researchers in Chicago turned their cameras on urban coyotes to see if...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intention to downlist the red-cockaded woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act last week.  Red-cockaded woodpeckers were...

Ocelots seeking home ranges are most concerned with finding the right type of habitats though they will try to avoid roads when possible. “Because they’re habitat specialists, it’s really habitat...

Right from your smart phone, you can help provide information about where feral cats are found to managers and conservationists trying to protect species that may be prey to the...

Thoughts of vampires may make some people want to keep their distance from Transylvanian carnivores, but new research shows that the animals seem to tolerate each other’s presence quite well....