Tag: migration

Warmer temperatures and food resources — from bird feeders to trash cans — in urban areas change the migratory behaviors of bird species, even resulting in more resident populations, according...

Wildlife Services has worked with Middlesex County Parks since 2014 to manage wildlife damage by many species. Since our efforts focus on Canada goose and Atlantic brant management, when the...

As the endangered whooping crane has recovered from a mere 16 birds in the 1940s to over 500 today, their flock sizes have also increased during migration, researchers found. Whooping...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird program has released 500 animated maps showing bird occupation and movement across the western hemisphere. The maps merge millions of observations from bird watchers...

Could beached whales be linked to storms on the surface of the sun? In a recent study in Current Biology, researchers documented what may be a correlation between sunspots and...

L.S. Quackenbush made a living guiding hunters in northern Maine in the 1940s and ’50s, but the meticulous journals he kept are telling biologists something about wildlife in the region...

When spring comes to the Arctic, caribou across Canada and Alaska synchronize the timing of their movement in a massive continent-wide migration to their calving grounds, researchers discovered. In some...

Climate change is prompting migratory birds to take flight earlier, raising questions about how these shifts will affect their ability to persist in a warming world. Looking at almost a...

Bison aren’t simply grazing as they move across the meadows of Yellowstone National Park. They are engineering the environment, manipulating the forage on the landscape and changing the way spring...

In the battle between wolf and caribou, who wins? This isn’t a battle for survival. This is bragging rights for long-distance travel. Researchers set out to determine which species globally...