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“Notes from the Field” are contributed articles that highlight current banding projects and the continued importance of bird banding 100+ years after...

Highlights from the USGS Bird Banding Lab (BBL) 2024 fall migration station.

By Mason Wheatley

USFWS, November 2024

In the cold of February, a bird was found dead on the sidewalk of Philadelphia, killed after colliding with a...

Have you ever walked through a forest and felt a little spooked? Well, that’s definitely the vibe of ghost forests!

EESC scientist Terry Chesser, PhD, leads the committee tasked with classifying North American bird species.

Disease Decision Analysis and Research (DDAR) is a multi-disciplinary team based out of the Eastern Ecological Science Center whose strengths are in...

RESTON, Va. — Two recent amphibian-focused studies shed light on the ecological importance of red-backed salamanders, while confirming that proactive...

In July 2024, the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC) at Patuxent Research Refuge wrapped up a project to replace...

The EESC Bird Banding Laboratory has completed a project to digitize over a million legacy bird banding paper records from the 1960s to the early...

USGS is working with Maryland Department of Natural Resources to sample blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) to measure levels of per- and...