Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology

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Black Headed Ibis

As human numbers continue to grow in many developing countries, there is pressure to bring more land under cultivation, says K.S. Gopi Sundar, a University of Minnesota graduate student  who is carrying out a two-year study of how farming in Uttar Pradesh is affecting wild birds. Finding ways to allow wild birds to flourish in cultivated landscapes is,
The Hindu

 

Monarch ButterflyResearchers have for the first time identified a set of genes involved in long distance migration... "What's really exciting about this paper is it really clearly seperates two important aspects of monarch biology" -- their reproduction and their migration, said Karen Oberhauser, an ecologist who studies monarchs at the University of Minnesota. 
The Scientist


Wolf

Researchers acknowledge a Wisconsin man's claim of witnessing rare white-tailed aggression has merit... Two veteran wolf researchers, Professor Dave Mech at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Michael Nelson of the U.S. Geological Survey's Wolf Project in Ely, Minn., have no reason to doubt the claim.
Wisconsin State Journal

 

Monarch ButterflyMonarch scientists have long suspected there is some mixing between the east and west populations and have acknowledged that they don't know exactly where southwestern monarchs go, said Karen Oberhauser, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, director of several monarch programs and one of the most respected monarch scientists.
The Canadian Press


When wildlife officials tried to get trumpeter swans to migrate to warmer climates by forcing them to find their own food, it backfired... But cutting off their food supply probably isn't enough to get them to successfully migrate, said University of Minnesota fisheries and wildlife professor David Andersen.
Star Tribune

Trumpeter Swan

 

Chasing a Giant - Jonathan Slaght
Primorye is a place of giants. In this sliver of Russia wedged between China, North Korea, and the Sea of Japan, Amur tigers and brown bears lumber past one another with mutual suspicion and fear. In the river valleys of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, huge Steller’s and white-tailed sea eagles squabble greedily over waves of salmon that come to spawn.
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Cloquet Field Session
This hands on experience (FW 4106; FW 4108) is required for FW majors prior to their senior year. Online registration begins 7 April.
Introductory Field Session
(August 9 - 31, 2009)


Tropical Marine Ecology Lab - August 2009 (Bahamas)
A hands-on introduction to marine field biology in the Bahamas (in collaboration with the University of Miami). Topics covered include: natural history of the Caribbean, mangroves, coral reefs, fish, sharks, sandy inter-tidal zone, rocky inter-tidal zone, marine plant communities, and effects of development. Full details and CFANS course number to be announced Spring 2009. Additional Information.
(Note: students are encouraged to take Marine Biology FW2003 first.)