Reports about Yellowstone bears, wolves, and birds published online

Information Launch Date: October 16, 2019

Get hold of: Morgan Warthin, (307) 344-2015

MAMMOTH Warm SPRINGS, WY – Yellowstone Nationwide Park lately released on line a few reviews from 2018 about bear management, wolves, and birds. Every once-a-year report focuses mostly on the health of these wildlife populations.  

Topics from the Bear Administration Software Yearly Report include bear sightings, administration of roadside bear viewing, bear mortalities, bear-human conflicts, bear-proof meals storage locker set up and more. 

Yellowstone’s Bear Biologist Kerry Gunther reported, “There had been several bear-human conflicts inside of of the park in 2018 nonetheless, handling people that stopped to check out and photograph bears foraging in roadside meadows and as a result developing substantial bear jams was a significant management obstacle.”  

Matters from the Fowl Venture Annual Report include monitoring of raptors, wetland birds, songbirds and around-passerine, drop migration, raven actions, and noteworthy and scarce bird sightings.   

Biologist Lauren Walker reported, “We applied five procedures to keep track of breeding songbirds in 2018: point counts in willow stands and mature forests, transects by way of plots in sagebrush steppe, a banding station, and the North American Breeding Chook Survey (BBS). We recorded 35 songbird species in just three willow growth varieties and captured at minimum 32 species at our banding station in a willow-lined riparian corridor. Observers recorded 24 species in experienced forests and 29 species in sagebrush steppe. We also noticed around 3,100 persons belonging to 82 species together 3 BBS routes in the park.”

Topics from the Wolf Venture Annual Report involve pup survival, wolf pack summaries, and employing radio collars to study wolves.

Doug Smith, Yellowstone Wolf Venture chief states, “In 2018 we famous a fall in pup figures, having said that there have been no intra-species wolf killings, which is typically the motive for the most wolf mortality. This year marks a 10-yr period of time of comparatively steady wolf figures. Although the motives for this are unknown, a somewhat steady elk populace is most likely a significant element.”

Editor’s take note: Pictures of each situation can be located on Flickr.