Researchers at Yale University observed spotted salamanders exposed to contaminated roadside ponds that are adapting to their toxic environments. Their study provides the first documented evidence that a vertebrate has adapted to the negative effects of roads apparently by evolving…[more]
Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies
Location matters for birds on the hunt for caterpillars, according to researchers at UC Irvine and Wesleyan University. Findings suggest that chickadees and others zero in on the type of tree as much as the characteristics of their wriggly prey.…[more]
University of California - Irvine
Do you have a fence with hollow posts made of PVC or metal pipe? What about a metal sign post? Bird experts say these and other open vertical pipes can be death traps for birds and other wildlife.
Feeding birds in yards enthralls many thousands of Arkansans every winter. When they are ready to move up a notch from using bags of mixed seed from discount stores and groceries, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission suggests, there are…[more]
When winter is in full swing in late January and in February, numbers of Arkansans and their visitors who enjoy the outdoors go looking for eagles. A few decades back, seeing an eagle was rare in the state. Now you…[more]
Hunters and wildlife watchers are urged to help count and identify Arkansas’s wintering swan populations. Karen Rowe, nongame migratory bird program leader with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said “Numbers of both trumpeter and tundra swans wintering in Arkansas…[more]
As bats fly close to turbines at wind energy facilities, the sudden air pressure change caused by the turbine’s rotating blades causes severe trauma to the bats’ lungs. The resulting bat fatalities occur frequently at wind farms. But the USDA…[more]
USDA Forest Service
Honeybee populations have been in serious decline for years, and Purdue University scientists may have identified one of the factors that cause bee deaths around agricultural fields.
Analyses of bees found dead in and around hives from several…[more]
Purdue University
Bald eagles, snowy owls and a chance to get outdoors on unseasonably warm winter days drew 3,000 visitors Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 7 and 8, to Eagle Days events at Smithville Lake.
A rare appearance by snowy owls…[more]
Despite a rudimentary knowledge of bird species, I looked forward to participating in a Christmas Bird Count. Here was an opportunity to do something outdoors during a festive season when many people are putting away Christmas decorations, and trying to…[more]
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