 In the last week hummingbirds flew into IL, NY, PA, OH, MD and even Ontario, way ahead of schedule. Freakishly, many fragile hummingbirds spent all winter up north. Keep reading Hummingbirds arrive a month–sometimes two–early this year; some never left  Thousands of virtually extinct scimitar-horned oryx survive on TX hunting ranches. But only 110 TX oryx are in the species survival plan that spans 211 institutions worldwide. The species doesn’t need Texas hunters. Keep reading What 60 Minutes’ Love Letter to TX Canned Hunts Got Wrong  The women who care for wildlife around Houston have professionalized the group, which treats mockingbirds, armadillos, pelicans, sea turtles and anything covered in oil. Keep reading Houston organizes rehabbers in Wildlife Center of Texas  Texas wildlife officials have been hunting down wild burros with AR-15s to clear a state park for bighorn sheep hunters, FOIA documents show. Keep reading Rick Perry’s wildlife staff use AR-15s to hunt burros, FOIA shows  Monarch butterflies are migrating down south right about now. Check pines and milkweed after a rain. Check Journey North for an interactive spotting map for roosts. Keep reading Tips: how to find migrating monarch butterflies  KY wants to be the first state in the Eastern Flyway to hunt Sandhill cranes. Watch out whooping cranes. This is the same route endangered whooping cranes take and sandhill hunters keep shooting them. Keep reading Kentucky wants to open hunting on eastern population of Sandhill Cranes  Oil companies and their republicans claim protecting the 5,000 aces whee the dunes sagebrush survives will wipe out the NM economy. Keep reading Republicans try to make villain of dunes sagebrush Lizard  About one-third of Americans who get leprosy can probably blame their contact with a coastal armadillo. Doctors linked their strain to the armadillo while other patients had overseas varieties. About half remembered armadillo contact, typically hunting and eating. Keep reading Armadillo contact (like hunting) linked to 1 in 3 US leprosy cases  The Chupacabra–the elusive goat-sucking beast for which canines with mange are all to frequently mistaken–may not even be plausible as an ancient myth. In Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction and Folklore killjoy scientist Benjamin Radford says it all just started in 1995 with one woman who saw a B-movie. Keep reading Chupacabra myth not so ancient; started in 1995  Arizona officially documents a live ocelot–the first time since 1960. Hundreds of miles from the tiny TX population, it probably wandered in from Sonora. Keep reading Arizona confirms first live ocelot sighting since 1960 |
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