Series: TWS Conference

March 17, 2022

Wild Cam: Tracking habitat preferences of imperiled Ecuadorian primates

In the coastal rainforest of Ecuador, Jacquelyn Tleimat sometimes felt like her tree climbing skills were being judged. She and her colleagues hiked for miles, hacking vegetation away with machetes...

March 9, 2022

TWS2021: Palm oil plantations reduce migratory bird abundance

Mexican palm oil plantations in Mexico are associated with a lower diversity of birds migrating south from Canada and the United States for the winter. Birds have been declining for...

March 7, 2022

TWS2021: Old bison horns can reveal lost ecological information

Long before wildlife managers struggled to translocate bison to new areas in an effort to recover lost herds, the giant bovines wandered across vast stretches of North America. While most...

March 7, 2022

TWS2021: Dredged material provides nesting areas for birds

Sediment dredged from the bottom of estuaries to improve shipping passages for boats can be formed into good island nesting habitat for coastal birds like black skimmers. Black skimmers are...

January 28, 2022

Wild Cam: Harvest may contribute to shorebird decline

In the coastal areas of Guyana, hunters get creative when trapping birds—sometimes “shocking” whole flocks with wires. Tying a 12-meter wire to a pole and laying it down in a...

December 21, 2021

TWS2021: eDNA techniques detect ranavirus

Environmental DNA techniques can detect a deadly virus in amphibian ponds, giving wildlife managers critical information about how to best protect vulnerable amphibian species. Ranavirus is deadly to amphibians. “It’s...

December 20, 2021

TWS2021: Do invasive fruit flies affect bird abundance?

Many studies focus on the effects of insect pests on forest vegetation. But new research shows that spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii), originally from Asia but now found widely in...

December 7, 2021

TWS’ Nick Wesdock honored for successful conferences amid COVID

Nick Wesdock, TWS’ business relations and conferences manager, has been recognized by Connect, an organization of event professionals and meeting planners, for his success in organizing annual TWS conferences through...

November 10, 2021

TWS2021: Eating fire ants may protect fence lizards

Eastern fence lizards may be eating their way to immunity from invasive ant venom in the Southeastern United States. Red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) were first introduced to states...

November 8, 2021

Block, Blackwell earn McAtee-Burger Award

Bill Block, associate editor for the Journal of Wildlife Management, and Bradley Blackwell, associate editor for the Wildlife Society Bulletin, are the 2021 recipients of the W. L. McAtee and...