Wildlife Diversity Program Quarterly Report for October–December 2025
Table of Contents Wildlife Diversity Program Staff ..........................................................................................................4 Searching for Herps in All the Right Places – Sandhills Ecoregion ........................................................6 Locals and Visitors Intermingling at Shackleford Banks ........................................................................ 7 Using Motus Stations to Document Full Annual Cycles of Songbirds .....................................................8 Restoring Bog Habitat to Support Recovery of the Southern Lineage of Bog Turtles .............................10 Trapping for Waterdogs! ...................................................................................................................11 A Core Banks Atlasing Adventure .....................................................................................................12 What We Are Learning About the Elusive Black Rail From a Dry Year ...................................................13 2025 Post-Tropical Storm Helene Gray Bat Efforts Conclude ..............................................................14 Studying Timber Harvest Effects on Green Salamanders and Their Micro-climate ...............................15 Extended Non-nesting Period For a Loggerhead Sea Turtle .................................................................17 Technical Assistance .......................................................................................................................18 Partners for Green Growth ................................................................................................................18 Resilience Strategy ..........................................................................................................................19 Conservation Partnerships ...............................................................................................................19 Western NCDOT: Bats ......................................................................................................................20 Aquatic Passage ..............................................................................................................................20 Aquatic Organism Passage/Culvert Assessment Project .....................................................................21
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