Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/wildlife/page/30/)
This broad category encompasses fish. It is further divided on the main menu with tags for mammals, insects, amphibians, birds, mussels, invaders and endangered wildlife.
Low water hinders the water mammals from entering and leaving their homes and it promotes invasive cattail growth. A new regulation plan that more closely mimics historic water fluctuations could create more suitable habitat, according to a recent study.
The success story of the American bald eagle’s comeback is widely celebrated, but lead poisoning is a serious threat to the species.
What do habitat destruction, cats and glass all have in common? They threaten songbirds. But solutions exist.
New book “Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast” gives fruit flies overdue accolades.
Citizen scientists survey the state’s wetlands, listening to male frogs and toads croak their pick-up lines into the dark.
The state is pursuing a game show technique increasingly used to solve difficult natural resource and other problems. Will it be enough to prompt someone to run naked down the street?
Invasive mussels and crayfish in the Great Lakes are supporting each other to the detriment of the native crayfish.
An extreme example in an Ontario river shows these mollusks are more sensitive to pollution than we knew.
A new study shows that large parts of the Great Lakes can host a virus responsible for thousands of fish deaths in the region.
Cisco supported one of the largest fisheries in the Great Lakes before their collapse 60 years ago. They’re now mounting a comeback, and an invasive species is opening the door.