During the early 1800s, wood bison numbers were estimated at 168,000, but by the late 1800s, the subspecies was nearly eliminated.
Excessive hunting was the primary factor leading to population decline. Another factor that is thought to have played...
Wood bison are the largest native land mammals in the Western Hemisphere, 10 to 15% heavier than plains bison. Bulls are slightly larger than cows and average around 1,800 pounds, but can get up to 2,000 pounds. Both males and females have short...
Two FWS biologists tagging a wood stork. Wood storks are widespread in Central and South America, but declined to alarmingly low numbers in the United States. At the turn of the century, there were over 150,000 wood storks living in Florida,...
A rare shorebird, superficially resembles the Lesser Yellowlegs, but about the size of a Solitary Sandpiper. Has yellow-green legs; AMNWR; birding; habitat; biology; Aleutian Islands; Aleutians; WOSA