TWS Urban Wildlife Working Group

TONIGHT! We are hosting a joint social with the Wildlife Disease Working Group from 6-9pm at the CRAFT Beer Market (a short walk from the convention center). There will be a cash bar, and we will be providing some tasty snacks! See you there! #TWS2025 🍟🍻

Reminder that this is happening today! See you there 💫

Join us at this year’s TWS Conference #TWS2025 🐾

📅 UWWG meeting on Mon Oct 6, 12pm MT, Salon 10 (see our website for Zoom option: urbanwildlifegroup.org)

🧪Urban wildlife session to follow: 1:30-3:30pm Hall D

🍻Joint social w/ Wildlife Disease Working Group on Tue Oct 7, 6-9pm, @CRAFT Beer Market

See you in Milwaukee!! :)

🌆🐾 The International Urban Wildlife Conference kicks off this weekend in Atlanta! We’re bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore the ecology and evolution of cities. Stay tuned for updates, session highlights, and behind-the-scenes glimpses of #IUWC2025! 🌇🦝🧬🌳

Ready to connect with urban ecologists and wildlife managers from around the world? The International Urban Wildlife Conference starts June 1st in Atlanta! 🦝🎡🌎

Workshops, field trips, plenaries & more: www.urban-wildlife.org/about

#IUWC2025 #UrbanWildlife #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution

New logo, just dropped! 👀

#UrbanWildlife #UrbanEcology #TWS

Don't forget to register for #IUWC2025! Peep our updated conference website to learn more about the workshops, fieldtrips, and speaker line-up that await you in Atlanta 🎡

www.urban-wildlife.org/about

#UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

3️⃣J. Drew Lanham
🦅📖 Dr. J. Drew Lanham is a MacArthur Fellow, award-winning author, & Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology who weaves conservation science with personal and cultural narrative of nature. #IUWC2025

2️⃣Shane Campbell-Staton
🦎🐘 Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton explores how human activity shapes species' evolution—from urban lizards to tuskless elephants. A passionate science communicator, he brings biology to life with Human Footprint & Evolution Earth. #IUWC2025

Head shot of Dr. Steward Pickett

1️⃣Steward T.A. Pickett
🌿🏙️ Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett, Distinguished Senior Scientist at @caryinstitute.bsky.social, has spent decades unraveling urban social-ecological dynamics. A pioneer in the field, his recent work explores the ecology of segregation. #IUWC2025

We are excited to share that we have THREE incredible plenary speakers presenting at #IUWC2025 this year! They will give talks that fit with our theme of Urban Reflections: What We’ve Learned About Nature, Our Communities and Ourselves. Stay tuned as we announce our speakers over the next few days 👀

Don't forget to check out our awesome workshops at #IUWC2025. You can sign up during registration and learn more here:
www.urban-wildlife.org/workshops

#UrbanWildlife #UrbanEcology

Reminder that this is happening TODAY from 1-3pm Eastern Time!

Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636678v1

The UWWG values all of our members. We support DEI initiatives and will continue to support TWS DEI programs such as Out in the Field, Women of Wildlife, and the IDEA Working Group. We will foster an open and safe environment for all people at our events, including the upcoming IUWC in Atlanta.

This year at #IUWC2025 we have a ~new and improved~ Mentor and Mentee program. We pair early career folks with more experienced professionals to facilitate networking and communication at the conference. Visit www.urban-wildlife.org/mentormentee... for more information and to sign up!

Registration is NOW OPEN for our 2025 conference! Register here by April 15th for a discounted rate: form.jotform.com/242624786774...

#UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife #IUWC2025

Flyer for the Wildlife Field Worker Safety in Urban Spaces workshop detailing the date/time and Zoom link

The Urban Wildlife Working Group is excited to announce a FREE workshop on Wildlife Field Worker Safety in Urban Spaces taking place on Zoom on February 24th from 1-3 pm Eastern Time. See you there! 🦺 #UrbanEcology #FieldWork

Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Impervious surface cover and number of restaurants shape diet variation in an urban carnivore In the past decade, studies have demonstrated that urban and nonurban wildlife populations exhibit differences in foraging behavior and diet. However, little is known about how environmental heteroge....

I'm so excited to share that my first dissertation chapter on SF coyotes is out in the #OpenAccess journal Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. We DNA metabarcoded and genotyped hundreds of scats to explore dietary variation across the city 🧬💩 🧪

doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Coyotes live longer in densely populated human areas Researchers tracking coyotes in Chicago discovered that densely populated human areas are linked to longer coyote lifespans.

Coyotes live longer in densely populated human areas: Researchers tracking coyotes in Chicago discovered that densely populated human areas are linked to longer coyote lifespans.

#UrbanCoyotes #WildlifeAdaptation #HumanWildlifeInteraction #UrbanEcology #CoyoteSurvival #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

House sparrow. Photo by Arnold Paul, Wikimedia Commons

Fig. 2 from the article: Effect of sampling location (A), (B) and infection status (C), (D) on microbiome alpha diversity.

NEW PAPER: diet, but not blood parasite infection, influence microbiota diversity in house sparrows, suggesting local microbial adaptations to urban habitats.

➡️ https://vist.ly/3msntki

#Ornithology #UrbanEcology #Microbiota #Birds #AvianMalaria @NordicOikos.bsky.social

Coyote genes may show urban evolution at work A new study by Elizabeth Carlen, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative at WashU, outlines the ways by which city life may be shaping the evolution of urban coyotes, the highly adap...

Science to read for your weekend:
first up:
Urban Coyotes are evolving to handle more human foods. #UrbanEcology 🧪 🐕
source.washu.edu/2025/01/coyo...

academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems wlb3.01406 #Gulls #Foraging #UrbanEcology

Birds of prey in medieval times survived on human scraps rather than hunting New research reveals that medieval birds of prey, including red kites and buzzards, thrived on human leftovers rather than hunting live prey.

Birds of prey in medieval Britain feasted on human scraps: New research reveals that medieval birds of prey, including red kites and buzzards, thrived on human leftovers rather than hunting live prey.

#MedievalBirds #RedKites #Buzzards #HumanWaste #UrbanEcology #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Are you interested in the social dimensions of human-wolf interactions? Come work with me at Oregon State University!

One of my favorite anoles, Anolis pulchellus, looking at its beautiful reflection in a car window.

February 26th 2025, 9:30am until 5:00pm EST Virtual. Call for abstracts and presentation proposals. Deadline February 3rd. Image: two Cedar Waxwings facing each other in the center of the post and the summit logo in the corner.

Want to present at BSCS25? We are looking for presentations of all kinds, from any background. Please consider sharing your experiences on bird-window collision mitigation at a post-secondary institution. Presentations will be 8 minutes in length followed by a bried Q&A period. The presentation sessions will be recorded through Zoom. Please fill out our form by visiting birdsafecampus.org

Do you want to share what your campus is doing to mitigate bird-window collisions? Submit your presentation proposal now! Visit birdsafecampus.org to fill out the application. Call for abstracts are open until February 3rd.

Presentations will be 8 minutes long and will be recorded through Zoom.

We're new here, so give us a follow if you're interested in all things #UrbanWildlife and want to stay up to date on happenings surrounding #IUWC2025. See you all in #Atlanta 🎡

Logo for the International Urban Wildlife Conference 2025 in Atlanta

We have finally joined y'all here just in time to start getting everyone stoked for the International Urban Wildlife Conference in Atlanta this June #IUWC2025. Peep our conference website--we'll be announcing our plenary speakers, field trips, workshops, and more soon! 👀 www.urban-wildlife.org