Wildlife Diversity Program Quarterly Report for April–June 2026
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On the cover, clockwise from top left: An Indiana bat captured during a mistnet survey on the Nantahala National Forest. (photo, Katherine Etchison, NCWRC); NCWRC technicians Sean Devine and Brittni McGuire, along with volunteer, Marcia Lyons, survey a Royal and Sandwich Tern colony on a shoal in Pamlico Sound (photo, Carmen Johnson, NCWRC); Releasing an Allegheny woodrat (photo, Jonathon Gruenke, NCWRC); A hatchling Eastern mud turtle caught while surveying for amphibians on Sandhills Game Land (photo, Marissa Calvert, NCWRC).
Left, Larval glochidia from a federally-endangered James spinymussel collected from the Dan River, Stokes County (photo, Chris Eads, NC State University); right, A metamorph gopher frog is released at an artificial burrow in the Sandhills (photo, Marissa Calvert, NCWRC).
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