Field Notes: A Tool for Making Digital Species Drawings
The identification of species with new digital illustration techniques could help taxonomists reluctant to go back to the drawing board, according to a new study. “Species illustration for me is...
Insecticides Alter Spiders’ Personalities and Behaviors
Consume the same amount of alcohol as your friend, and you may notice that you’re acting a little loopier than them, or vice versa. This is the idea that urged...
Effective New Model for Predicting Shorebird Habitat
Seashore managers have a new tool to help them protect future habitat for the federally endangered piping plover. “A lot of the national parks and especially the national seashores along...
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Banding the Bay’s Pelicans
Early on a beautiful July morning professionals from local wildlife agencies and volunteers met at a Crisfield, Maryland boat ramp. Our destination? Smith Island, a small series of islands on...
The High Speed Chase to Find Why Birds Change Altitudes
It was generally around 4 a.m. when the car chase would start to get old. Melissa Bowlin would be thinking, “Please just land, bird — that spot looks great over...
TWS Member Creates Risk Framework for CWD in Montana
Wildlife managers in Montana now have a better focus on where a deadly prion disease that kills deer may infiltrate the state. “The overall goal was to help Montana focus...
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Fire Ants Limit Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Survival
Small but dangerous to insectivores, invasive red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) could be negatively impacting the brood survival of critically endangered Attwater’s prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri), according to...
Nation-Wide Efforts Expanding to Protect Monarch Butterflies
There’s an ongoing fight to save one of the most well-known and well-loved species of butterflies. Numbers of the monarch butterfly have been falling drastically since the 1990s, and for...
Using High-Res GPS to Study Thailand’s Flying Foxes
Researchers tracking the movements of flying foxes with high-resolution GPS devices have found that the best way to stop the large bats from getting in conflict with local fruit farmers...
