Wild Pantex

Article by Jim Ray, Pantex Wildlife Biologist/Scientist

Jim Ray, wildlife biologist, holds "Pink-and-Green" and her brother, "Pink-and-Red."

Article by Jim Ray, Pantex Wildlife Biologist/Scientist

For more than a decade Pantex and West Texas A&M University studied the ecology of our resident prairie rattlesnakes. We captured hundreds of them and marked them with subcutaneous microchips.

Spiders were not my favorite critter to have to deal with.

Article by Jim Ray, Pantex Wildlife Biologist/Scientist

Swainson’s hawks are migrating from Texas to Argentina

As mind-boggling as it may seem, as of this writing 13 adult songbirds are currently drifting southward

The June/July/August time frame is a busy time for the wildlife program here at Pantex.

Article by Jim Ray, Pantex Wildlife Biologist/Scientist

Every state in the United States has designated a bird species as its state bird. Texas’ is the Northern Mockingbird, Oklahoma’s the Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher, and New Mexico’s is the Greater Roadrunner. Besides Texas, the mockingbird is also claimed by four other states: Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Article by Jim Ray, Pantex Wildlife Biologist/Scientist

The U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration and Pantex eagerly await word on the announcement of the winner of the 2014 Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award. Abstracts for Pantex and the two other national finalists are now posted on the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s web page for the Council for the Conservation of Migratory Birds.

Good news has come our way once again!