Tag: foxes

The kit fox population living in the high elevation grasslands of the Trans-Pecos region of western Texas appears to be doing well. Texas Parks and Wildlife had noticed a decline...

During years that trees don’t grow so many cones, foxes may help increase spruce forest productivity.  White spruce, like many coniferous trees, often alternate between productive and non-productive years when...

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host a two-part virtual workshop, “The Bird Course: A Bird’s Eye View of Ornithology”, June 5 and 12.  This workshop offers an...

By looking at foxes’ diets over the years, researchers determined that human activity has influenced the small carnivores as far back as 42,000 years ago. Foxes typically feed on scraps...

A fragmented landscape places obstacles in the path of swift fox expansion in Montana. Once much more common in the state’s grasslands, the foxes have declined over the last century....

An eagle feather may be light in weight, but it can pack enough isotopic data to reveal the changing patterns of prey availability across a landscape. Researchers used stable isotopes...

While they may look alike, foxes on six different islands in California’s Channel Islands are actually very genetically different. The reason for these differences? According to a recent study, it’s...

An invasive beach dune grass that provides safe harbor for rodents may be making life more difficult for small predators in some Northern California coastal ecosystems. Previous studies show that...