Scientists at SCBI study and breed 20 nimal species, including some that were once extinct in the wild, such as black-footed ferrets and scimitar-horned oryx. Animals thrive in specialized barns and building complexes spread over more than 1,000 acres.
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Paige Byerly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation Genomics. Her research focuses on avian evolution, population dynamics, and conservation. Her primary areas of expertise include museum genomics, population genomics, and Caribbean seabird ecology. Her current research at SCBI is a joint project with Dr. Philip Lavretsky’s lab at the University of Texas El Paso, investigating the genomic consequences of domestic and wild mallard interbreeding on wild mallards. She is also partnering with U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service to continue her work on roseate
Boa constrictors are nonvenomous snakes found in Central and South America. They are named after their mode of predation: constriction.
For example, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
One of the most widespread duck species, northern pintails have extensive migratory routes. Habitat loss poses the biggest threat to this duck. As their wetland and prairie habitats are converted and fragmented, northern pintail populations continue to decrease.
including insects, mollusks, crustaceans, amphibians and fish
Fire-bellied toads, also called bombina, are warty, aquatic toads with bright orange or red undersides. These gregarious frogs are native to China and Russia.
floating twigs, plants, other frogs and toads, newts, fish
The Eld’s deer, also known as the brow-antlered deer, is an endangered species indigenous to Southeast Asia. The species was discovered in the Manipur Valley of India in 1838 by Lieutenant Percy Eld, a British officer.
wetland reclamation for grazing, cultivation and fish
Tammy Wilbert is a research associate at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Conservation Genomics. Wilbert is interested in addressing basic and applied questions regarding wild threatened and endangered species. She is broadly enthusiastic about the use of data to understand species biology, behavior, and evolutionary histories, as well as inform habitat management and policy decisions. Wilbert has also shared her passion for conservation science through teaching and outreach activities to people of all ages and backgrounds.
Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters in Virginia,
Scientists at the Center for Species Survival work with a number of bird species.
scientists, in collaboration with the Fort Belknap Fish
Scientists at SCBI study and breed 20 nimal species, including some that were once extinct in the wild, such as black-footed ferrets and scimitar-horned oryx. Animals thrive in specialized barns and building complexes spread over more than 1,000 acres.
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Black-tailed prairie dogs are one of five species, the others being Utah, Mexican, white-tailed and Gunnison’s prairie dogs. These social rodents are industrious diggers, excavating prairie dog towns, which are U-shaped with chambers connected by tunnels.
Fish and Wildlife Service has concluded that prairie
