🐣🐣🐣🥚 The day we have waited for, worked for has come! At this moment, 3 chicks have hatched and the parent plovers are still incubating the fourth egg. Our work continues as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.

Urban Wildlife Inst. Thrilled to be a co-host of the 2024 Midwest Beaver Summit, held on Weds, August 28, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT. Register now! eventbrite.com/e/2024-midwest… #beavers #beaverbeliever #MidwestBeaverSummit #coexist #wetlands #wildlife #ecologicalrestoration #water #webinar

This bat 🦇 acoustic recorder survived the tornado on Monday 💪Urban Wildlife Inst.

🚨*Please Retweet*🚨We're looking for #applicants for a fully-funded #PhD on the #welfare impacts of #urbanisation on #wild #fox and #hedgehog #cognition and #health with me, Carl Soulsbury 🇺🇦 and Simon Clegg. Deadline 15th September, details below. 🦊🦔🧩🧠🏙️ #BritishCarnivoreProject

I defended my thesis on Friday! It was really amazing to get to share this moment with so many special people who have supported me along the way. A special thank you to Dr. Stankowich, everyone in the Ted Stankowich 🦨🐆🦌🦔🦏🦡, and the Urban Wildlife Information Network for making this work possible.

It's been confirmed that the family of owls in Lincoln Park that died this year was the result of rodenticide poisoning for all three owls. #Chicago cbsnews.com/chicago/news/t…

We are very excited to have Dr. Tiziana Gelmi Candusso (Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso) to join our team! We’ve been collaborating for years via Urban Wildlife Information Network and are looking forward to do some really great human-wildlife conflict work across multiple cities with her!

The next season of Chicago Wildlife Watch is now live! Come help us comb through our July 2024 camera trapping season! #cameratrapping zooniverse.org/projects/zooni…

This paper is VERY important. We sampled raccoons, skunks, and opossum for rodenticide throughout #Chicago and detected it IN EVERY SINGLE ONE, even opossum joeys weaning on their mother! Check out this thread for more details.

What kind of trees do bats like in urban green spaces? That’s what we aim to find out! Some fun field work today at Humboldt Park. Urban Wildlife Inst.

Today our Assistant Director of One Health @maureenhmurray (far right of photo), is in New York for the first National Urban Rat Summit! Dr. Murray was invited to the summit to speak about her rat research in #Chicago.

Spending 2 days talking with municipal and academic rat nerds at the inaugural National Urban Rat Summit in NYC has been a dream. Thanks to the organizing team for the invitation to speak and for the swag - this logo is simply stunning. SFU Health Sciences @maureenhmurray VancouverRatProject

And what's a rat summit without an evening rat safari! Kaylee Byers, PhD snapped this photo of some NYC rats earlier this week.

We've been placing 'ratcams' in alleys throughout #Chicago to get a look at rat abundance throughout the city, but rats are not the only species we see. Check out this opossum investigating our camera!

Ever felt like the global landcover maps were a bit lacking in urban areas? We used the OpenStreetMap database to make fine resolution LULC maps. The beauty is OSM is vector-based so you can go as fine as you want. Now published in Wiley Ecology & Evolution shorturl.at/KDbRu

Okay #cameratrap people. What do we think this coyote is carrying around? This is one of our more rural sites outside of Chicago.

Mothman and chupacabra in Chicago? More like great blue heron and coyote. Check out this article we were interviewed for, honestly it was treat getting to chat about this! chicagotribune.com/2024/10/31/chi…