The Hellbender Search Continues
Sunshine is abundant, streams are low, clear and warm, and traps are smelly and baited…wait, what was that last part?! As the summer season is slated to officially begin this Monday, the field season is already underway and our hellbender search within Chautauqua County has begun once again. As you may recall, last fall we worked with Robin Foster, PhD candidate at the University of Buffalo, to take eDNA samples from a number of potentially suitable sites to be tested. In case you aren’t familiar, eDNA is short for environmental DNA and is a reliable method in detecting even...
Read MoreEastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus)
Here’s a familiar neighbor from many of our backyards, the Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus). This one is wet from the rain on the second day of the RTPI/SUNY College Lodge BioBlitz. It was more “cooperative” (and I use that word loosely) than the three species of mice we captured that morning. None of them seemed to want to be released back into that pouring rain, though…
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