Urban WildLife News
2023
Coyotes face the stress of the city. The Wildlife Society. September 25, 2023.
Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County identifies otter with rabies. Florida Health. September 25, 2023.
Bird diversity drops where cities heat up. The Wildlife Society. September 5, 2023.
Urban wildlife finds different strategies to survive city life. The Wildlife Society. August 14, 2023.
Environmental risks higher for urban bees. The Wildlife Society. May 25, 2023.
Researchers map a place for woodpeckers in city parks. The Wildlife Society. May 2, 2023.
Tribes, researchers debate final fate of P-22, famed LA puma. AP News. February 4, 2023.
2022
Op-Ed: Elegy for a big, beautiful L.A. cat. Los Angeles Times. December 19, 2022.
P-22, Hollywood’s celebrity mountain lion, ends his reign. BBC. December 17, 2022.
Suburban cats pay the price for slinking into coyote territory. The Wildlife Society. December 13, 2022.
Q&A: Racial housing segregation harms biodiversity. The Wildlife Society. December 9, 2022.
Coyote attacked 2-year-old girl in front of her house, security camera shows. CNN. December 4, 2022.
LA’s famed mountain lion P-22 killed Chihuahua on leash in Hollywood Hills, park service says. ABC7. November 22, 2022.
Wild Cam: How do city coyotes choose dens? The Wildlife Society. November 15, 2022.
City birds retain their fear of hawks. The Wildlife Society. November 1, 2022.
Urban wetlands hold diverse wetland species. The Wildlife Society. October 31, 2022.
Watch: Rare garden plants bring rare wildlife. The Wildlife Society. July 29, 2022.
City life may be a trap for sparrows. The Wildlife Society. July 8, 2022.
Nothing to honk at: Fake coyotes ward off geese in Madison parks. Wisconsin State Journal. June 13, 2022.
Eavesdropping on the secret lives of dolphins in New York harbor. June 11, 2022.
Wild Cam: Species shift active time in cities. The Wildlife Society. May 17, 2022.
UC leads demonstration project to improve Ohio streams. UC News. May 4, 2022.
Light pollution is increasing year-round for migratory birds. The Wildlife Society. April 29, 2022.
Cities build better biologist. Scientific American. April 22, 2022.
A cougar passage rises over a deadly Southern California freeway. Los Angeles Times. April 22, 2022.
Fox that attacked congressman and others near Capitol had rabies, officials say. NBC News. April 7, 2022.
Police apprehend fox after congressman bitten near Capitol. Forbes. April 5, 2022.
Mountain lion captured inside Irvine building. The Orange County Register. March 22, 2022.
Cities can be part of the solution in sustaining species. News from the Yale School of the Environment. February 28, 2022.
Wildlife biologists to get rid of crows that gather in the Capital City. 6News. February 15, 2022.
Doctors in Canada can now prescribe national park passes to patients. The Washington Post. February 7, 2022
New York Deer Infected with Omicron, Study Finds. New York Times. February 7, 2022
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.I.I.529) infection of white-tailed deer. bioRxiv. February 4, 2022
For the first time, U.S. allocates big money for animal road crossings. NPR, Morning Edition. January 31, 2022
2021
New Yorkers and wildlife are finding solace in the city’s parks. CNN. December, 2021
Deer wars and death threats. The New Yorker. December, 2021
2020
The corner of NYC that’s overrun by deer, turkeys and feral cats. New York Times. March, 2020
2019
City Departments to public: Stop feeding raccoons on Chicago’s Lakefront. CBS Chicago. December, 2019.
Staten Island has a deer problem. How about a bow hunt? Wall Street Journal. August, 2019.
It’s Eastertime, and the duck rescuers are ready. New York Times. April, 2019.
2018
Coyote howls have you cowering? Don’t fear, says this Atlanta advocacy group. Atlanta Magazine. January, 2018.
Staten Island has a problem: deer. The solution? Vasectomies. The Daily Show. July, 2018.
Backyard Beasts of Prey. Alta Online. March, 2018.
2017
Solving Staten Island’s deer problem with a snip and a stitch. New York Times. September, 2017
How a fear of humans affects the lives of California's mountain lions. LA Times. June 27, 2017.
Urban nature: What kinds of plants and wildlife flourish in cities? The Conversation. June 26, 2017.
On Safari in the City: A Guide to Urban Wildlife Viewing. New York Times. May 2, 2017.
Ordinary people are exploring the secret lives of coyotes — through poop. The Washington Post. March 17, 2017
Are birds cut out for city living? The Washington Post. January 25, 2017.
2016
WSB study: Sterilizing female deer doesn’t reduce deer populations. The Wildlife Society. December 8, 2016.
How Coyotes Conquered New York. The Village Voice. October 12, 2016.
National Wildlife Federation Launches P-22 Day Festival and Urban Wildlife Week. NBC Los Angeles. October 4, 2016.
Too Many Deer on the Road? Let Cougars Return, Study Says. New York Times. July 18, 2016.
City birds again prove to be angrier than rural birds. Science Daily. July 15, 2016.
Birds, beavers, bats and rats: Seattle’s urban wildlife thrives. The Seattle Times. July 11, 2016.
Why urban wildlife is thriving in Berlin. Deutsche Welle. July 7, 2016.
Roly-Poly Hedgehogs Loving Life in the City. National Geographic. July 5, 2016.
JWM Study: Suburban pumas eat more raccoons, house cats. The Wildlife Society. June 16, 2016.
Here’s what we don’t know about urban coyotes, a growing issue in LA. Daily Breeze. June 6, 2016.
Wild about NYC: opossums. WNYC. April, 2016.
Urban Moths Have Evolved to Avoid the Big City Lights. Entomology Today. April 15, 2016.
A Dance With Dragons. Urban Fishing Cat Project. March 18, 2016.
Roofing Revolution: How (Gorgeous) Green Roofs Benefit Birds. Audubon. February 18, 2016.
The Language of Sparrows: How Bird Songs Are Evolving To Compete With Urban Noise. Bay Nature. January 20, 2016.
Why do we feed wild animals? New York Times. January 6, 2016.
2015
Rodenticide debate heats up in wake of wildlife deaths. Simi Valley Acorn. December 10, 2015.
Effort to prevent "coywolf" hybrids working, study finds. Science. December 10, 2015.
Large, Urban Birds Most Tolerant of People. The Wildlife Society. December 3, 2015.
Outfoxing mange in the San Joaquin kit fox. Sacramento FWO. November 18, 2015.
New York Today: Eagle eyed. New York Times. October, 2015.
Invasive Reed Grass May Benefit Native Urban Amphibians. The Wildlife Society. October 30, 2015.
Suburban Estrogen Could Be Changing Frogs’ Sex Ratios. The Wildlife Society. September 10, 2015.
The growing global battle against blood-sucking ticks. Scientific American. August 25, 2015.
Secrets of the species that thrive in the big city. BBC Earth. August 19, 2015.
Cougars may provide a net benefit to humans. Science. August 12, 2015.
Urban Bird Treaty Program Expanded. The Wildlife Society. August 6, 2015.
Wily: A coyote walks into a bar. The New Yorker. April, 2015.
Feral cities: How animals are going urban like never before. National Geographic. April 24, 2015.
Sick coyotes' habits boost encounters with humans. CBC News. April 14, 2015.
That howling? Just New York’s neighborhood coyotes. New York Times. March, 2015.
Human-Provided Food’s Impact on Urban Wildlife. The Wildlife Society. March 26, 2015.
Pumas feel the fear near humans. Nature. January 29, 2015.