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Welcome to the official UCD Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology Instagram!
The “wildest” major on campus! 🌱🐟🦆🐍🐿

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For more information about this project go check out our previous post or go to: https://toddlab.ucdavis.edu/ucdavisturtles.html

These turtles were all handled in accordance with local laws and permits were obtained for all activities

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There’s a lot more happening in Putah Creek than you might realize. 🐢

We recently joined Laura and her team from the UC Davis Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology to learn about their research on the turtles living in and around Davis.

The team is studying California’s native Western Pond Turtle alongside the invasive Red Eared Slider. Western Pond Turtles are California’s only native freshwater turtle, while Red Eared Sliders are common in the pet trade and can become a problem when they’re released into the wild as they compete with native species.

We got to see how the research actually happens. When a turtle is caught, researchers take measurements, assess its health, identify or uniquely mark it, and release it back where it was found.

When turtles are caught again later, that information becomes especially useful. Researchers can track things like growth, survival, population size, and changes over time, giving them a much better picture of how these turtles are doing.

They’re also studying turtles across different areas around Davis, including Putah Creek South Fork and the Arboretum. This is important because comparing these populations can help researchers better understand how native turtles are responding to different environments and the presence of invasive species.

It’s pretty incredible to think this kind of wildlife research is happening in places many of us walk, bike, and explore all the time. We see turtles around Davis pretty regularly, but now we’ll definitely be looking at them a little differently. 🐢

And an important note: all animals shown in this video were handled by the research team with the proper permits and research protocols. Please don’t handle or disturb wild turtles yourself.

Huge thank you to Laura and the team for letting us tag along and see another side of the research happening right here in Davis.

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Some photos from the @ucdavis Ecology of Waterfowl and Game Birds banding day back in February with @calwaterfowl!! Be sure to check out my article in the summer edition of California Waterfowl magazine.

I’m very grateful for the opportunity to learn alongside great people in a beautiful place. Experiences like the ones we had are so crucial to the future of conservation in California and for protecting the fantastic hunting opportunities available in this state. A big thank you to CWA for allowing me to share the story!!

#portra400 #californiawaterfowl #conservation #ucdavis #wildlifephotography

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Thank you to all who came to visit us on the 112th Picnic Day! 🧺🚲 In collaboration with the Graduate Group in Ecology, UC Davis Herpetological Club, and American Fisheries Society Davis-Sacramento Subunit, we got to showcase many of our iconic museum specimens, in addition to live fish and reptiles! 🐦‍⬛🦦🐧🦇🐍🐟

#museum #museums #ucdavis #picnicday #aggies

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Spring is here!! These lucky 5th graders got to go out to Putah Creek with scientists from @ucdavis and see, feel and study what lives in our creek and learn about the history of the creek and watershed 🦋🐟🍃🌱

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Thank you everyone who came to visit us last Saturday for the 15th annual Biodiversity Museum Day, we reached a total of over 3,000 guests!🦉🦇🦎🐟🦦

This event is the only time our collection is open and exhibiting to the general public, so if you missed out... don’t fret! Visit us and the 12 other campus museums next year for more! 🔍🐾

#museum #museums #ucdavis #aggies #wildlife

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Join the WFCB Advising Team and the Wildlife Society at UC Davis for a joint event, featuring a graduate student panel! Let’s learn about and demystify the graduate school process and what it’s about! Join us on Thursday, February 26 at 6-7 pm in Academic Surge room 1371. 📝🍃

Light snacks will be provided so please RSVP via the link in the TWS linktree or here: https://forms.gle/nNRAny3LaJzrQRJL6

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The MWFB would like to welcome incoming transfer and freshman Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology students to UC Davis! 🐾📚

At Aggie Orientation last week, new students met WFCB faculty and Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology staff. They got tours of the collection from our interns and learned about opportunities in the department. They’ll be seeing more of our specimens in their classes very soon! 🐦‍⬛

Good luck, Aggies!

#ucdavis #davis #museum #museums #mammal #mammals #bird #birds #aggies #science #college #wildlife

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❗❗🚨ATTENTION 🚨 ❗❗Our 2025 #Evolution and #Ecology #Graduate School Preview Program application is OPEN! Please refer to our website (link in bio) for more information. We especially encourage individuals from historically excluded groups to apply!

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🐻 🦨 Link in bio to watch new episode!! In this week’s episode I interviewed UC Davis PhD student Julia Owen-Orcutt on her genetic research project about bears and skunks! Click to listen about awesome field research, poop studies, and DNA testing!

#podcast #wildlife #animals #bears #skunk #scat #genetics #research #ucdavis #wfcb #animals #conservation

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Graduating soon from UC Davis with a Bachelor’s of Science in Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology which basically means I’ve spent the last four years learning how to wrestle with both wildlife and my own sanity. I’ve been slapped by a 7-foot sturgeon, wrestled angry ewes in the name of mastitis research like a sheep OB, got spray peed on by my dialysis patient (dw it’s water anyway), and survived internal medicine shifts that made me question everything.

But, this is just the beginning of my wild journey! Between the fieldwork shenanigans and enough yerbs to keep me awake for a century, I’m looking forward to everything coming my way. Here’s to handling more poop, fur, and claws than ever (but, please, with a stethoscope this time)!

Thanks @createdby_arya and @gmgdomeny‘s aunt for the amazing pictures!

@ucdavis @ucdaviscaes @ucdavis.life @ucd_wfcb

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Are you "caught" up on our latest paper? Check out this work by @dr.surfnturf and an awesome team of collaborators (including @physioshark, @rummerjodie, @johann_mourier, @kzecofishiology, Dr. Taylor Chapple and @sulikowskilab of the BFL, and more). Can you use catch data to learn more about whether and why sharks, skates, and rays hang out together? Read the paper to find out, and as a bonus, you'll also get to learn about some adorable juvenile blacktip reef sharks 🦈. Link in bio!

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