Tag: migratory birds

The Canadian Wildlife Service released proposed changes to their migratory game bird hunting regulations for the next two hunting seasons (2020-2021 and 2021-2022), which would consolidate hunting zones in some...

In response to conflicts with cormorant at aquaculture facilities as well as other situations where the birds are a nuisance, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to develop a...

The House Natural Resources Committee approved the Migratory Bird Protection Act of 2020 (H.R. 5552), which would reverse the Trump administration’s recent interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The...

Many of the anticipated rules released by the White house Office of Management and Budget’s semiannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions will affect The Wildlife Society’s conservation priorities....

When birds strike buildings in Chicago, they sometimes end up in the Field Museum of Natural History, where they’re kept as specimens. This unique collection has helped give researchers a...

Spring bird numbers have dropped by nearly one-third in the past 50 years in the U.S. and Canada, according to new research. “What we found was staggering and depressing all...

While researchers have been able to track birds migrating at night using National Weather Service radar, sometimes it’s just too much data to go through in order to answer bigger...

Birds that have ingested seeds treated with a common insecticide experience weight loss and delay their migrations — effects that could reduce their chances of surviving and reproducing, researchers found....

A project led by longtime TWS member Jim Ray has received the Council for the Conservation of Migratory Birds’ 2019 Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award. A wildlife biologist with...

It was the end of October 2016 when the first reports of dead puffins and auklets began trickling in on the small Pribilof island of St. Paul. Local Aleuts had...