PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Thirteen fluffy California condor chicks are hopping in their nest boxes at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation this month — the biggest cohort yet in the zoo’s 21-year effort to save this critically endangered species from extinction. “It’s been an incredible hatching season,” said Travis Koons, who oversees
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The target was likely a wolf, the latest poisoning in a disturbing trend that has killed 19 wolves in Oregon since 2015. Whatever the target, the collateral damage in northeast Oregon’s ongoing poisoning cases now includes golden eagles, dogs and other carnivores, authorities said Thursday.
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Think Wild, Bend’s wildlife hospital and conservation center, performed a procedure Thursday on a juvenile bald eagle suffering from severe lead toxicity, most likely poisoned by a lead bullet in an animal carcass.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Call it one of those local-bird-makes-good stories: The first California condor to hatch at the Oregon Zoo’s conservation center just turned 20 years old in California’s Pinnacles National Park. Kun-Wac-Shun, aka condor No. 340, hatched at the Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation on May 9, 2004, and has been flying free
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CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Artificial intelligence analysis of data gathered by acoustic recording devices is a promising new tool for monitoring the marbled murrelet and other secretive, hard-to-study species, research by Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service has shown. The threatened marbled murrelet is an iconic Pacific Northwest seabird that’s closely related to
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SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that has been hoofing through the foothills of western Washington for days was recaptured Friday evening, nearly a week after she escaped with three other zebras from a trailer near Seattle. Local residents and animal control officers corralled the zebra named “Shug” in the community of Riverbend, about 30 miles
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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A zebra that escaped from a trailer east of Seattle last weekend remained on the lam Friday, as authorities closed off trailheads at a nature area in hopes of keeping people away and easing her capture. The zebra was one of four that escaped as they were
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Finding a young wild animal alone does not mean it needs to be rescued. In fact, the best course of action is to leave them where you find them. The advice you are likely to hear from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife you pick up or bring young wildlife
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Zoo is home to many critically endangered species, but perhaps none as rare as its newest arrivals: a trio of sihek (SEE-heck) kingfishers. Once native to the island of Guam, these tiny, brightly colored birds have been extinct in the wild for decades. Only 110 are left in the
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SEATTLE (AP) — The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington, where they were largely wiped out. Plans announced this week by the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service call for releasing three to seven bears a year for five to 10 years to
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REEDSPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) — Nearly 18,000 young salmon died after a vandal poured bleach into a Douglas County fish hatchery tank on Monday, according to law enforcement authorities. What may have started as vandalism evolved into poaching with the illegal killing of fish in one of four tanks at the Gardiner, Reedsport, and Winchester Bay
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NEWPORT, Ore (KTVZ). – Researchers who created “family trees” for nearly 10,000 fish found that first-generation, wild-born descendants of hatchery-origin Chinook salmon in an Oregon river show improved fitness. The finding, based on data collected over 13 years, is encouraging for Chinook salmon recovery efforts, said Kathleen O’Malley, an associate professor at Oregon State University
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A Bend animal rehabilitation center is seeing an uptick in calls this spring. Think Wild provides medical care for injured wildlife from Central and parts of Eastern Oregon. This time of year, squirrels and owls are the most common patients.
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A team of rescuers has suspended its efforts to save an orca calf that has been stranded for nearly two weeks in a remote lagoon on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada. Crews with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the Ehattesaht First Nation made
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The littlest member of the orangutan family is celebrating a big milestone this week: Jolene will turn 2 on Saturday. Born at the Oregon Zoo on April 13, 2022, she’s gaining in independence and showing more of her personality, though keepers say she still stays close to her mom, Kitra. “Young
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The minimum known count of wolves in Oregon at the end of 2023 was 178 wolves, according to the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management annual report released Friday. That’s the same number documented in 2022 and does not include 10 wolves translocated to Colorado in 2023 to help establish a wolf population there.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Deschutes County Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to accept more than $32,000 in grant funds from the Oregon Department of Agriculture for the county’s new Wolf Depredation and Financial Compensation program. The grant funds, totaling $32,620.75, will be used to reimburse ranchers whose livestock or working dogs have been confirmed
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking qualified applicants to fill a Public-At-Large position on the Restoration and Enhancement Board, which helps fund fish restoration and enhancement projects throughout the state. Interested individuals must apply by May 15, 2024 using the application at https://www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/RE/board.asp The ideal candidate to fill the
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Seven fluffy chicks hatched last month at the Oregon Zoo’s Jonsson Center for Wildlife Conservation, marking the beginning of what looks to be another outstanding year in the effort to save this critically endangered species. “It’s been an incredible season so far,” said Travis Koons, who oversees the zoo’s bird populations
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SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – April Fool’s Day was no joke for Oregon angler Rebecca Jones when she caught a monkeyface prickleback weighing 4.8 pounds and 28 inches long, potentially the new world record. Jones dug sand shrimp early Monday morning, then headed to Barview Jetty near Garibaldi, hoping to catch rockfish for dinner. Instead, she
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