Geographical Location: Western

A salmonella outbreak is affecting songbirds throughout the western United States. Affected birds have been reported from the West Coast to Idaho. Residents have reported birds acting strangely. Wildlife officials...

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host a virtual two-part Drone Applications for Biologists workshop April 15-16 and April 22-23. The workshop is targeted towards biologists who are...

Southern Arizona is seeing what appears to be a record number of migratory sandhill cranes. Observers counted 47,601 of them. About half of those are in the Whitewater Draw Wildlife...

Researchers believe a cancer that has killed sea lions in California for years is linked to toxic chemicals in the water. After two decades of research, scientists concluded a previously...

As central California sea otters recover from past centuries of overharvesting, they’re gradually expanding into areas they historically occupied. By understanding which types of habitats support higher sea otter abundance,...

Most people don’t pay much attention to snails — especially when the pea-sized gastropods live on a rocky uninhabited islet in Hawaii and don’t even have a name. But Norine...

A Catalina Island shrew has made an appearance for the first time since 2004, confirming to biologists that the species is not extinct. The shrew appeared on a trail camera...

When scientists reintroduce animals to augment populations, they often take individuals from areas close to the reintroduction site. “There’s this idea to not move animals outside of their native population...

It’s a mystery of reintroduction. When Alaskan sea otters were moved from a nuclear testing site in the Aleutian Islands to the coasts of Washington and Oregon, the two translocated...

Invasive Abert’s squirrels may be passing harmful parasites to endangered native Mount Graham’s squirrels in Arizona. Ongoing research on these squirrels and the creatures that live off of them has...