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Tracking Tips

Bobcats Searching for Mates


Lessons from a Fisher

Mushrooms on the Menu

Tracking Tips: When Tracks Shine

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Tracking Tips: Raven Partnerships

Tracking Tips: Busy Beavers

Tracking Tips: Fishers Aren’t Cats

Though it’s often called “fisher cat” or “black cat,” the fisher (Pekanis pennanti) rarely fishes and is not a cat. The fisher’s only likeness to the…

Tracking Tips: Relief From Herbivory

While performing field necropsies on moose, Maine biologist Lee Kantar has observed as many as 90,000 winter ticks on a single victim. Such moose are anemic and malnourished. With vital fat…

Tracking Tips: Grazing Bears

By the end of April, black bears have shrugged off winter’s dormancy and are getting hungry. They may get lucky and discover a winter-killed deer and get to indulge in its valuable…

Tracking Tips: Snow Birds: Staying North for the Winter

Temperatures may plunge to 50 degrees below zero on Nunavik Quebec’s Ungava peninsula. But there, at the northernmost edge of our northern woodlands, lives a species of bird that toughs…

Tracking Tips: Wee Beasties Watch Out!

The familiar red fox is the most widely distributed carnivore on the planet. Throughout North America, I’ve admired these handsome animals in arctic Canada’s barrenlands, southern…