Geographical Location: Southwest

April 3, 2024

Raptors prey on prairie dogs in the winter

Prairie dogs are a reliable food source, but plague is making them less consistent

March 22, 2024

Urban Cooper’s hawks face a range of threats

Intentional killings by people remain a concern

January 22, 2024

How much is a vagrant Steller’s sea eagle worth?

Researchers quantify the dollar value of a random vagrant appearance of an exotic bird

January 19, 2024

Do hybrids hunt differently than Mojave or prairie rattlesnakes?

Tracking venomous snakes in New Mexico, researchers detected differences in hunting behavior

January 18, 2024

Watch: Capturing and conserving desert bighorn

Biologists in New Mexico conduct captures to bolster populations around the state

January 11, 2024

Watch: Unknown jaguar appears on Arizona trail camera

Biologists say the cat doesn’t match two other jaguars in the area

January 5, 2024

Watch: Tiny technology tracks Tucson bats

The system uses small transmitters to track the bats’ foraging behavior

January 4, 2024

Wandering Mexican wolf recaptured

Wildlife officials are pairing the wolf with a mate in captivity

December 27, 2023

Moon sheds new light on how ocelots and bobcats share the landscape

The two cats seem similar, but their behaviors change with the phases of the moon

December 11, 2023

Mexican wolves go after same prey as gray wolves

A GPS tracking study confirmed that elk are the primary prey of wolves in Arizona