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For the last few years, the spring months are a mix of worry and excitement as we focus our attention on maternity season for the rare Northern Long-eared Bat (Northerns) we study and their [...]

                    We’ve been using radio-telemetry to track the movements and habitat use of four black racers on Martha’s [...]

In the wee hours of January 5th, 2019, Robert Culbert was out owling to begin his species list for the 59th Annual Martha’s Vineyard Christmas Bird Count (MV CBC). He went to [...]

I think often about whether my grandchildren will be able to enjoy the wonderful diversity of nature we now have on the Vineyard – the multitude of shorebirds that pass through in the [...]

Volunteering with BiodiversityWorks over the past few years has allowed me an inside look at the lives of some of the Vineyard’s most interesting residents. The learning curve has been steep as I [...]

I became involved with BiodiversityWorks as a volunteer in the beach bird and marsh bird program the first year and have remained active as a volunteer since then.  I graduated from Smith College [...]

Black Racer Movements and Habitat Use The Massachusetts State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) ranks the black racer as common across the state, but it is listed as a priority species because these [...]

I have been passionately interested in wildlife and conservation efforts for as long as I can remember. I have banded birds and tagged butterflies, pollinated Jack-in-the- Pulpits and lain in [...]

“It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns…” Walden Henry David Thoreau, 1854 Since Thoreau’s [...]

When Augustus Ben David said “Terry, the milk snake in your crawl space is more afraid of you than you are of it,” I knew I had to expand my conservation efforts beyond just water resources and [...]