Tag: citizen scientists

September 19, 2022

Q&A: Can hunters help monitor scavengers?

A video of bobcats and coyotes tearing into a bloody, rotting carcass isn’t usually inspirational. But when researchers Katharine Stone and Michael McTee were looking to learn more about the...

July 27, 2017

Fifty-year-old bird breeding survey still informs conservation, management

Over 50 years ago, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Chan Robbins was looking for a scientific way to measure changes in bird populations. Surveys like the Christmas bird count...

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March 25, 2015

How Researchers Use Nose Patterns to Identify Koalas

When it comes to identifying individual koalas, the nose knows. According to Peggy Shaw-McBee, assistant professor at Kansas State University and long-standing TWS member, a technique called nose pigmentation patterns is...