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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:
On-going Research

Fishers

Massachusetts Deer Population:
Managing through Hunting

Strategies for Preventing
Deer Overpopulation

Beavers

Opossums

Bats

Reading the Tale of Deer Scat

Birds

The Do's & Don'ts When Finding
a Baby Bird, 7/27/09

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

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

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

Bird Life at Graves Farm
Wildlife Sanctuary

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

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Eel Migration

Blueback Herring

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Wintering Ground for
Short-Nose Sturgeon

Raising Trout

Amphibians

Vernal Pools & Salamanders, 8/31/09

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 & their Kin

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

Insects in a Costa Rican
Lowland Rain Forest

Other Invertebrates

Long Island Sound:
Horseshoe Crabs

Bay Scallops

Freshwater Mussels

Crayfish

Earthworms

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs & Birds

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Yale University's Peabody Museum & the Birth of Paleontology

Imaginary

April Fool's Spoof: Needlesnakes