During winter, food becomes scarce and snow covers much of the vegetation that deer typically consume. To cope, white-tailed deer shift their diets from green plants to woody browse. They feed on ...

Starvation, although probably always causing some mortality even during moderate Adirondack winters, may cause massive mortality when deep snow cover exceeds 100 days (as was the case in the winters ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that ...

Photos of the striking specimen in the snow were shared by the West Seneca ... the fence built around its perimeter trapped a small herd of white-tailed deer within its walls.

Reindeer are members of the deer family, but several features set them apart from their white-tailed cousins found ... hooves are adapted for padding over snow. Members of both sexes also sport ...

above average for mule deer and below average for white-tailed deer. Snow levels were high enough to make high-country travel difficult for hunters, but not enough to concentrate elk on winter ranges.

Unlike moose with their long legs, he said, white-tailed deer aren't built for deep snow, so when there's a lot of snow, mortality rates are high. And since northern New Brunswick historically ...

The DNR's winter severity index was developed mostly to gauge impacts on deer in the northern part of the state. Here's how 2024-25 stacks up.