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Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, UC Davis Education and Conservation through Preservation. Visit our website at http://mwfb.ucdavis.edu

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE! Today we threw a party for the oldest banded songbird on Putah Creek, STEVE the Western Bluebird! ...
05/29/2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEVE! Today we threw a party for the oldest banded songbird on Putah Creek, STEVE the Western Bluebird! He’s 8 years old, which is really old for WEBL. Say happy bird day to Steve! 🥳

Steve was banded as a hatchling in 2018. He’s a big fan of the Putah Creek Nestbox Highway and has fathered AT LEAST 30 chicks of his own. What an MVP. We had a great time celebrating with Steve (watching Steve through binoculars) today. To 120, Steve. 🥂🪱🪺

Shoutout to Amanda and Maggie for organizing and to everyone who joined us!

Nothing says spring like some freshly pinned mice. 🪻 Good job to all the undergraduates in this year’s WFC-110L Laborato...
05/08/2026

Nothing says spring like some freshly pinned mice. 🪻 Good job to all the undergraduates in this year’s WFC-110L Laboratory in Biology & Conservation of Wild Mammals class who taxidermied their first museum specimens today! 🐁

Do you love Chonkers? We love ! Here’s another look at the size difference between a Steller sea lion like Chonkers (ri...
05/02/2026

Do you love Chonkers? We love ! Here’s another look at the size difference between a Steller sea lion like Chonkers (right) and a California sea lion (left), this time with their craniums. Steller sea lions, the largest species of sea lion, can be over three times the size of California sea lions.

That Steller sea lion skull is from Crescent City in the 1950s, and the California sea lion skull is from Ocean Beach in San Francisco, 1989.

Photo of Chonkers from AP Photo/Haven Daley.

Today in the Museum’s teaching lab: Dr. Carson Jeffres with students from GEL-136 Ecogeomorphology of Rivers & Streams l...
05/01/2026

Today in the Museum’s teaching lab: Dr. Carson Jeffres with students from GEL-136 Ecogeomorphology of Rivers & Streams learning about fishes of the Klamath River in preparation for a two-week trip the class will take to the field. A fishtastic time! 🐟

04/30/2026

Say hello and good luck to the first Ash-throated Flycatcher caught and banded on Putah Creek this field season! 🥳🐤 Last year we caught the first ATFL on the creek in over a decade. The Putah Creek Nestbox Highway biologist team has been employing new methods to band these guys for monitoring, and it’s working great!



Video: Museum Researcher Amanda Kindel releasing an Ash-throated Flycatcher after banding on Putah Creek.

Thank you to all who came to visit us on the 112th Picnic Day! 🧺🚲 In collaboration with the Graduate Group in Ecology, U...
04/24/2026

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! 🐦‍⬛🦦🐧🦇🐍🐟

That’s what we’re talking about! THANK YOU to the MWFB community for helping us meet our Give Day challenge! Each year w...
04/18/2026

That’s what we’re talking about! THANK YOU to the MWFB community for helping us meet our Give Day challenge! Each year we are so, so grateful. 💕

Stay tuned for photos from Picnic Day!

We need your help! 🐣 Today is the LAST DAY to give to our challenge fund for this year’s Give Day at UC Davis. Donations...
04/18/2026

We need your help! 🐣 Today is the LAST DAY to give to our challenge fund for this year’s Give Day at UC Davis. Donations of any size make a difference. If you can, please donate at the link in our bio to support experiential learning opportunities like the Putah Creek Nestbox Highway. Thank you, and thank you to those who have already donated!

Field photos from Grace Bottomley.


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Congratulations to undergraduate research assistant Rachel-Ann Arias for receiving the honor of Outstanding Service as a...
04/17/2026

Congratulations to undergraduate research assistant Rachel-Ann Arias for receiving the honor of Outstanding Service as a Representative of the UC Davis Student Chapter at the Annual Meeting of the Wildlife Society-Western Section! Rachel-Ann was recognized after presenting on her Mute Swan research at the event in February. 🦢🏆 Great job, Rachel-Ann!



If you want to support experiential learning for undergraduates at the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, please donat...
04/15/2026

If you want to support experiential learning for undergraduates at the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, please donate to our Give Day challenge fund this week. 15 donations of ANY SIZE will help us unlock a generous gift of $20,000 from Bruce and Carolyn Lowenthal to support student growth in museum science and wildlife biology in the field. The link is in our bio. Thank you!

Photo and graphic from UC Davis CA&ES.

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