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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.

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Snowy Plovers in the Florida Panhandle. Photo: Britt Brown

Florida's Shorebirds Saw a Big Breeding Bump After Hurricane Michael

A Cooper's hawk is flying free above Virginia Tech thanks to Hokies and the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke. The hawk flew into a window and then spiraled to the ground at the Alphin Stuart Livestock Arena. Less than a week later, the hawk has been released back into the wild.

Hokies help Cooper's hawk spread its wings and fly

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

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Terrestrial Mammal Ecology/Biologist

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

Order 2020 calendar featuring work of fish and wildlife graduate students

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

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

Northern Snakehead fish. Credit: Donald Orth

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

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

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

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Dec 5th-EEB Seminar
Seasonal Camouflage Reveals the Potential for Adaptive Rescue to Climate Change
Scott Mills, U. Montana

3:30-4:45pm | Derring Hall 4069

Dec 12th -UG Fish & Wildlife Conservation Community Networking Program

12:00-1:00pm | Cheatham Student Lounge

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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.

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

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!

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