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Kailyn Kampert, a Virginia Tech student taking the Wildlife Field Techniques course, straps a motion-activated camera to a tree to capture photos of animals.

In the News

A chickadee and a goldfinch feast on black-oil sunflower seeds at a backyard bird feeder.

Bird feeders: New research revelations ahead of the backyarders’ prime season

Cameras mounted opposite each other a few feet off the ground captured this image of an ocelot in the forests of Belize.

Fifteen years of ocelot tracking is revealing new information about this elusive cat

This photo of piping plover chicks was taken by Chelsea Weithman.

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Donald Orth, center, guides students during a field session for his ichthyology course.

Donald J. Orth receives American Fisheries Society award for public outreach

Bluehead chubs are shown swimming over a nest one of the males had constructed. Other fish, called nest associates, congregate near these piles of rocks to also use them as spawning grounds or to eat the eggs. (

Virginia researcher wants to turn nest-building fish into rock stars

Mike Cherry (right) shows Jan Kennedy one of the collars used to track fawns in his white-tailed deer study, while graduate student Heather Abernathy looks on. The collars are designed to adjust in size as the animal grows.

The Kennedy family’s legacy of giving supports forestry and wildlife research

Northern Snakehead fish. Credit: Donald Orth

You spot a land-crawling “Frankenfish,” now what?

The Human Dimensions of Birdwatchers: Insights for Wildlife Managers

HokieTalks : Sea levels are rising - Solutions for watermen and waterbirds

AMAZON FISH SPECIES AT RISK IF FIRES DESTROY RIVER HABITAT The fires burning through the Brazilian Amazon are a threat to the fish that rely on forest flooding to survive, raising fears the fish will be lost.

 Amazon fish species at risk if fires destroy river habitat

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EVENTS

Nov 14th-EEB Seminar 
Amphibian [and Maybe Reptile] Demography to Guide Management
John Maerz, U. Georgia

3:30-4:45pm |  Derring Hall 4069

Nov 15th-UG Fish & Wildlife Conservation Community Networking Program
 
12:00-1:00pm |  Cheatham Student Lounge

Nov 18th- VTAFS Meeting & Speaker  

Dr. Amanda Rosenberger
5:00pm |  317 B/C Cheatham Hall

Nov 21th -EEB Seminar Series
Tenure Seminar
James Smyth, Virginia Tech 

3:30-4:45pm |  Derring Hall 4069

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 Recognition Spotlights

2019 AFS Scholarship Winners accepting their awards

Congratulations to Sheila Harris, Alissa Ganser, and Katie McBaine on their wins at the 2019 Joint Meeting of the Virginia, Virginia Tech & West Virginia Chapters of the American Fisheries Society.  

photo of TWS award winners

Congratulations to all our presenters at the 2019 TWS State Conference! Hokies took home 7 of the 8 awards. Way to go, VTTWS! 

 

 

 

photo of Brian Case and Corbin Hilling

Congratulations to graduate students Brian Case and Corbin Hilling, who earned graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Virginia Sea Grant, respectively!