Urban Wildlife Inst.

Lincoln Park Zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute researches species diversity on an urban to rural gradient. Tweets by @masonfidino.

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

Check out the latest @uwi_network paper led by @masonfidino which shows how the effects of gentrification in cities extends to wildlife!

[Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino]

Beyond thrilled to share the new @uwi_network paper out today in @PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14
https://t.co/MURNkjsLGR

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

Mothman and chupacabra in Chicago? More like great blue heron and coyote. Check out this article we were interviewed for, honestly it was treat getting to chat about this!

https://t.co/sV3Vf2FhVP

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

Okay #cameratrap people. What do we think this coyote is carrying around? This is one of our more rural sites outside of Chicago.

[Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @UrbanZoochory]

Ever felt like the global landcover maps were a bit lacking in urban areas? We used the OpenStreetMap database to make fine resolution LULC maps. The beauty is OSM is vector-based so you can go as fine as you want. Now published in @WileyEcolEvol https://t.co/Z4yIC6GIWP

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

@kaylee_byers It’s so cool!

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

We've been placing 'ratcams' in alleys throughout #Chicago to get a look at rat abundance throughout the city, but rats are not the only species we see. Check out this opossum investigating our camera!

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

And what's a rat summit without an evening rat safari! @kaylee_byers snapped this photo of some NYC rats earlier this week.

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

Today our Assistant Director of One Health @maureenhmurray (far right of photo), is in New York for the first National Urban Rat Summit! Dr. Murray was invited to the summit to speak about her rat research in #Chicago.

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

Today our Assistant Director of One Health @maureenhmurray (far right of photo), is in New York for the first National Urban Rat Summit! Dr. Murray was invited to the summit to speak about her rat research in #Chicago.

[Liza Lehrer @ms_woodchuck]

What kind of trees do bats like in urban green spaces? That’s what we aim to find out! Some fun field work today at Humboldt Park. @LPZ_UWI

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

This paper is VERY important. We sampled raccoons, skunks, and opossum for rodenticide throughout #Chicago and detected it IN EVERY SINGLE ONE, even opossum joeys weaning on their mother! Check out this thread for more details.

[Jacqueline Buckley M.S. @Jackie__Buckley]

🧵 We are excited to share our new pub with @STOTEN_journal titled: "Widespread exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides among common urban mesopredators in #Chicago.“ This pub is OA for the next 50 days using https://t.co/S3tYWKjsIw (1/8)

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

The next season of Chicago Wildlife Watch is now live! Come help us comb through our July 2024 camera trapping season! #cameratrapping
https://t.co/kWKlsXJYnX

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

We are very excited to have Dr. Tiziana Gelmi Candusso (@UrbanZoochory) to join our team! We’ve been collaborating for years via @uwi_network and are looking forward to do some really great human-wildlife conflict work across multiple cities with her!

[Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @UrbanZoochory]

Next week I start a new chapter in the same book, along my awesome partners @LPZ_UWI , inc @maureenhmurray @masonfidino @sbmagle, who I already saw as colleagues after 4 years of meetings and collaborations through the @uwi_network . I’m excited to become a part of their team.

[Emily Blackwell @EmilyABlackwell]

I defended my thesis on Friday! It was really amazing to get to share this moment with so many special people who have supported me along the way. A special thank you to Dr. Stankowich, everyone in the @CSULBMammalLab, and the @uwi_network for making this work possible.

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

It's been confirmed that the family of owls in Lincoln Park that died this year was the result of rodenticide poisoning for all three owls. #Chicago

https://t.co/5ecEnsCVf3

[F. Blake Morton @DrBlakeMorton]

🚨*Please Retweet*🚨We're looking for #applicants for a fully-funded #PhD on the #welfare impacts of #urbanisation on #wild #fox and #hedgehog #cognition and #health with me, @cds_york and Simon Clegg. Deadline 15th September, details below. 🦊🦔🧩🧠🏙️ #BritishCarnivoreProject

[Liza Lehrer @ms_woodchuck]

This bat 🦇 acoustic recorder survived the tornado on Monday 💪@LPZ_UWI

[Liza Lehrer @ms_woodchuck]

@LPZ_UWI Thrilled to be a co-host of the 2024 Midwest Beaver Summit, held on Weds, August 28, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT. Register now!
https://t.co/HRgoDR8lU8

#beavers #beaverbeliever #MidwestBeaverSummit #coexist #wetlands #wildlife #ecologicalrestoration #water #webinar

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

@robertloerzel @ms_woodchuck @BowmanOutside Can’t really tell from the burrow, sorry!

[Chicago Piping Plovers @ChicagoPiping]

🐣🐣🐣🥚
The day we have waited for, worked for has come! At this moment, 3 chicks have hatched and the parent plovers are still incubating the fourth egg. Our work continues as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

We have been very fortunate to receive grants from the Walder Foundation in the past (if that helps with anyone considering to explore this possibility with us).

[Urban Wildlife Inst. @LPZ_UWI]

The 2025 Biota awards application for post-doctoral research has been posted! We'd love to explore this possibility with people wrapping up their PhDs to co-develop a project that interfaces with all the data coming out of @uwi_network. Please share!

https://t.co/hY0vuFJ9L5