Wildlife Diversity Program Quarterly Report for April–June 2025
Table of Contents Wildlife Diversity Program Staff ..........................................................................................................4 Looking Back at Five Years of Alligator Spotlight Surveys ......................................................................6 Monitoring Day and Night .................................................................................................................... 7 Emerging Gopher Frog News ..............................................................................................................8 The Jersey Shore Flocks to NC - Banded Piping Plover Spotted in Carteret County ...................................... 9 Post-Helene Bird Monitoring ............................................................................................................10 Wood Thrush Nanotagging ...............................................................................................................11 Monitoring Bog Turtle Populations Post-Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina ............................. 12 Backyard Snakes and a Bioblitz ......................................................................................................... 13 Turtles, Frogs, and Snakes, Oh My! ..................................................................................................... 13 The Secret Lives of Breeding Birds .................................................................................................... 14 Post-Hurricane Helene Bat Surveys Show Reduced Gray Bat Counts ..................................................15 Keeping Tabs on Sea Turtle Habitat ..................................................................................................16 Detections of Eastern Hellbenders Post Hurricane Helene .................................................................17 Woodrats in Western North Carolina .................................................................................................19 New Colony Discovered During Annual Wood Stork Monitoring Survey ................................................20 Development of Genetic Tools to Aid in the Restoration of Two Federally Endangered Mussel Species, the Tar River Spinymussel and Yellow Lance ......................................................... 20 Robust Redhorse Sampling and Propagation ....................................................................................... 21 Cape Fear Shiner Broodstock Collection ............................................................................................. 21 New Hope Creek Mussel Relocation .................................................................................................22 Monitoring the Movement and Habitat Use of Stocked Carolina Madtoms in Sandy Creek ....................... 23 Hurricane Helene Monitoring and Woody Debris Technical Guidance in the Foothills Region of the Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program ................................................................................................. 24
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