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The #UrbanWildlife Working Group (UWWG) is a working group of The Wildlife Society (TWS). International conferences are bi-annual. #IUWC2025
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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
The Urban Wildlife Working Group
urbanwildlifegroup.org
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 🍟🍻
October 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
The Urban Wildlife Working Group
urbanwildlifegroup.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
The Urban Wildlife Working Group
urbanwildlifegroup.org
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🌆🐾 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! 🌇🦝🧬🌳
May 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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
IUWC 2025 — International Urban Wildlife Conference
www.urban-wildlife.org
May 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
New logo, just dropped! 👀

#UrbanWildlife #UrbanEcology #TWS
April 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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
About — International Urban Wildlife Conference
www.urban-wildlife.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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 👀
March 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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
Workshops — International Urban Wildlife Conference
www.urban-wildlife.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Reminder that this is happening TODAY from 1-3pm Eastern Time!
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...
February 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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.
February 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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!
Mentor/Mentee Program — International Urban Wildlife Conference
www.urban-wildlife.org
February 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Registration is NOW OPEN for our 2025 conference! Register here by April 15th for a discounted rate: form.jotform.com/242624786774...

#UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife #IUWC2025
January 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
January 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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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...
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....
doi.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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
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.
www.earth.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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NEW PAPER: diet, but not blood parasite infection, influence microbiota diversity in house sparrows, suggesting local microbial adaptations to urban habitats.

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January 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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-...
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...
source.washu.edu
January 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems wlb3.01406 #Gulls #Foraging #UrbanEcology
January 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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
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.
www.earth.com
January 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Are you interested in the social dimensions of human-wolf interactions? Come work with me at Oregon State University!
The Doney Lab is recruiting a PhD Research/Teaching Assistant to study Human Dimensions of Wolves and Wolf Management in Oregon at Oregon State University.

📍View posting here: tinyurl.com/ye5zmzre
🗓️ Apply by end of day February 3, 2025.

#ConSocSci #HumanDimensions
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January 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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One of my favorite anoles, Anolis pulchellus, looking at its beautiful reflection in a car window.
January 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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.
January 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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
January 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM