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Animals

Mammals

• The Return of Harbor Seals to MA, 3/30/09
• White Nose Syndrome & the Decline of Bats, 2/23/09
• Moose in Massachusetts, 5/19/08
• Tracking Wildlife of the Holyoke Range
• Black Bears in Massachusetts: Ongoing Research
• Fishers
• Massachusetts Deer Population: Managing through Hunting
• Strategies for Preventing Deer Overpopulation
• Beavers
• Opossums
• Bats
• Reading the Tale of Deer Scat [More]

Birds

• Chestnut-Sided Warblers, 6/8/09
• CT's 19th Century Egg Collection, 3/23/09
• American Black Ducks, 3/16/09
• Red Winged Black Birds, 3/09/09
• Tom Ricardi: Raising & Rehabilitating Eagles, 1/12/09
• Birds & Ultra Violet Light, 10/6/08
• Chimney Swifts & Their Conservation, 7/7/08
• The Complexity of Bird Song, 6/16/08
• Why Birds Sing, 6/9/08
• The Spread of Non-native, Fruit-Producing Plants, 12/03/07
• Long Island Sound: Rare Sparrows, Salt Marshes & Sea Level Rise
• Bluebird Watching [More]
• Robins
• Early (Shore) Birds
• Starlings
• Ravens
• Cliff Swallows
• Wintering Bald Eagles
• The Eagle Midwinter Survey
• "Resident" Canada Geese in New England
• The Saw-Whet: New England's Smallest Owl
• The Amazing Rufous Hummingbird, Who Mistakes Agawam for the Yucatan
• Grassland Birds
• Common Loons & Lead Fishing Gear
• Costa Rica Part One: The Three-Wattled Bellbird
• Costa Rica Part Two: Protecting the Three-Wattled Bellbird
• Spring Migration
• Early Spring Birding [More]
• Songbirds Returning in May
• Bluebird Trails
• Monitoring Marsh Birds
• The Bird Finding Guide to Western Massachusetts
• Rehabilitating Injured Birds of Prey
• Rehabilitating Injured & Abandoned Birds
• The Meaning of Bird Songs [More]
• Bird Life at Graves Farm Wildlife Sanctuary [More]

Fish

• Freshwater Fish Under the Ice, 2/11/08
• Massachusetts Aquatic Biodiversity Project
• IPN (Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis) in Connecticut Salmon, 12/10/07
• The Atlantic Salmon Egg Rearing Project
• Stocking Salmon in the Millers River
• High Tech Fish Studies
• Spawning Salmon
• Fish Passage & Hydropower Dams
• Eel Migration
• Blueback Herring
• Wintering Ground for Short-Nose Sturgeon
• Raising Trout

Amphibians

• Spring Peepers
• Green Frogs and Gray Tree Frogs
• Salamanders Crossing Henry Street
• Marbled Salamanders

Reptiles

• Basking in the Sun: "Cold-Blooded" Animals & Solar Radiation
• Rattlesnakes & PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction)
• Tracking the Endangered Box Turtle
• Wood Turtles
• Snapping Turtles
• Spotted Turtles

Insects & Ticks

• West Nile Virus,7/20/09
• Mosquitos, 7/6/09
• Maine Blackfly Breeders Association, 6/29/09
• Spittlebugs, 6/22/09
• Bugs versus Beetles, 6/15/09
• Honeybees, 5/4/09
• Detecting & Controlling Exotic Pests, 4/13/09
• Asian Long-Horned Beetle, 1/5/09
• Emerald Ash Borer, 12/22/08
• Winter Moth, 12/15/08
• Spiders & Ultra Violet Light, 10/06/08
• Bumblebees, 9/29/08
• Treehoppers, 9/08/08
• Caterpillars, 8/04/08
• Native Bees, 7/21/08
• 17 Year Cicadas, 6/23/08
• Fireflies
• Bioluminescence & Other Organsisms
• Natural History of Local Mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes and the West Nile Virus
• Ticks: Habitat Preferences, Behavior & Biology
• Deer Ticks
• Horseflies and Deerflies
• Lacewings: Mating Rhythms
• Dragonflies
• Dragonflies & Damselflies
• Tiger Beetles
• Katydids
• Insects: A Natural History Lesson in the Vegetable Garden
• Hunting for Moths at Night
• Caterpillar Chemical Defenses
• Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Sites in Mexico: A Conservation Update [Hear More]
• Insects in a Costa Rican Lowland Rain Forest

Other Invertebrates

• Long Island Sound: Horseshoe Crabs
• Bay Scallops
• Freshwater Mussels
• Crayfish
• Earthworms

Dinosaurs

• Dinosaurs & Birds
• Yale University's Peabody Museum & the Birth of Paleontology

Imaginary

• April Fool's Spoof: Needlesnakes