8 As summer approaches, the Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ annual Interior Least Tern survey in the Arkansas River and Red Rivers will begin soon.
Throughout the summer, Tulsa District surveyors will travel up and the Arkansas River and Red River to count adult and fledglings every three weeks.
The five-year count average for the ILT is 1698 adults and 378 fledglings. The five-year goals for adults and fledglings are 1343 and 336 respectively.
The effort to monitor and protect the ILT is a multidiscipline, interagency effort between the USACE, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Southwestern Power Administration.
The USFW removed the ILT from the Endangered Species Act’s threatened and endangered list in 2020. As part of the Southwestern Division, USACE’s ILT Conservation Plan, districts will continue counting tern populations ensure they continue to trend positive.
The Sandhill Crane s Comeback wxpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wxpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
4:29
Now researchers at Purdue University along with experts with the U.S. Fish and WIldlife Service are trying to understand the scale of the problem - and what can be done about it.
In an open field in Dubois County in southern Indiana, researcher Marian Wahl dragged the carcass of a stillborn calf off of her truck and into a patch of flattened grass.
“I feel slightly morbid but scientifically important is the entire research project I’ve got going on here,” said Wahl.
Not long after she placed the calf’s body within a ring of cameras that snap photos of any black vultures that land there, Wahl spotted them rising up from trees on the edge of the field.
Trumpeter Swans hatch at the Maryland Zoo
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
Trumpeter Swan pair with their newest clutch.
By: WMAR Staff
and last updated 2021-05-21 13:47:43-04
BALTIMORE â The Maryland Zoo is excited to announce the hatching of two trumpeter swans!
The hatchlings, called cygnets, hatched after more than 30 days of incubating in their huge nest, which is located in the Farmyard at the Zoo.
âThis is the sixth clutch laid by the trumpeter swan pair here at the Zoo. Scuttle and Buttercup play a very important role in the conservation of their species,â said Jen Kottyan, avian collection and conservation manager. âMany of their previous chicks were reintroduced to the wild as part of the Trumpeter Swan Restoration Program in Iowa.â
Al Drago/Getty Images
, a Vox reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of the biodiversity crisis.
As President Joe Biden moves quickly to reinstate the full slate of environmental policies weakened by former President Donald Trump, including the landmark Migratory Bird Treaty Act, he’s signaling that climate change and biodiversity loss are now major priorities for the US.
Earlier this month, the Interior Department also launched a campaign to conserve 30 percent of US land and water by 2030, joining more than 50 other countries that have committed to that goal. Biden is pursuing the target, known as 30 by 30, alongside a new and more ambitious commitment to cut carbon dioxide emissions.