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Joshua Rapp Learn

TWS2021: Dredged material provides nesting areas for birds

March 7, 2022

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 considered endangered in New Jersey, …

Conservation News

Stewardship helps protect coastal birds

December 14, 2021

Well-stewarded areas afford more protection to Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastal birds than those that are left alone, even if they are in national parks or other conservation areas. Coastal birds face a number …

Joshua Rapp Learn

WSB: Evaluating the needs of breeding grebes in Utah

August 13, 2021

Every fall, thousands of eared grebes stop along the Great Salt Lake to feed on brine shrimp, which provides nutrients to carry them through a long journey southward to the Gulf of California. Most of …

Conservation News

JWM: Water management can help redhead duck conservation

May 6, 2021

Every winter, several hundred thousand redhead ducks descend on the Laguna Madres of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. Redheads wintering in this area, which represent about 80% of the continental population, have some peculiar habits. …

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The September issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin

October 15, 2020

The Wildlife Society Bulletin is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published four times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management and conservation, focusing on aspects …

Dana Kobilinsky

Hawaiian gallinules won’t leave home, putting them at risk

October 29, 2018

Endangered native Hawaiian waterbirds like the Hawaiian gallinule (Gallinula galeata sandvicensis) and the Hawaiian coot (Fulica alai) have benefited from habitat on national wildlife refuges and other protected wetlands, ultimately increasing from 60 gallinules and …

Dana Kobilinsky

As lake level drops and salinity climbs, waterbirds vanish

April 24, 2018

Like many saline lakes in the western United States, water levels in Oregon’s Lake Abert are decreasing due to water diversions for agricultural operations, drought and climate change. Researchers recently found the falling water level …

Dana Kobilinsky

Political instability main factor in waterbird conservation

January 3, 2018

Even more than climate change, human population growth or their own species characteristics, waterbird species across the globe seem to be declining mostly from political instability and weak governance, according to new research. In a …

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