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Regal Rascal - The luxurious golden hood of the yellow-headed blackbird may belie the fact that he is indeed very common in our Prarie Pothole wetlands.
Location: Medicine Lake NWR
Credit: Jamieson S

Refuge, Frederick Stuart Church, 1912

paintings by frederick stuart church in the smithsonian american art museum frederick stuart church

Mary and Joseph seek shelter in Bethlehem, Bento Coelho da Silveira

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This is one of 8 active bald eagle nests on Seedskadee NWR. This pair has used this location/nest for almost 10 years and has fledged over 20 young over their "career". Only one eaglet is

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: the Roseate Spoonbill feeding along the levee. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

Less agile than the common gray squirrel, the Delmarva fox squirrel often ambles along the forest floor
rather than leaping from branch to branch.

The animal usually avoids
confrontations by running

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A juvenile red-tailed hawk on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Sagebrush leaves make up most of the greater sage-grouse diet during the winter. During the growing season from April to September, they may also feed on other available vegetation. This greater sag

Prairie falcons are occasionally spotted on Seedskadee NWR. Some years, a pair or two will nest on the cliff faces along the Green River. During the spring and fall migrations, they can be spotted i

A Northern harrier hovers above a flock of red-winged blackbirds burrowed into the cattails. Northern harriers, previously called marsh hawks, are birds of the wind. On breezy days, they soar, glide

Northern harriers are also sometimes called marsh hawks. They nest in the wet meadows found on Seedskadee NWR. Courtship flights are fascinating to watch. Once the young fledge, family groups can b

The sound of jet fighters circling behind me caught my attention. When I twisted my neck to look, I spotted a pair of ring-necked ducks dropping into the wetland from a high altitude. The sound was

Brown pelican snares a stick for nest building at Breton NWR. May 3, 2010 by USFWS Tom MacKenzie. Taken during a bird count preassessment prior to the oil spill making landfall. 1868

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

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Prairie falcons are common spring and fall migrants, with a few remaining to winter on Seedskadee NWR. Horned larks are one of their prefered prey, and prairie falcons can be spotted at times stoopin

Ocean peggy's cove coast

landscape travel

Merge immigrants community

Cai alpine club stay

landscape stones

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie

A short-eared owl on Seedskadee NWR has just caught and eaten a meadow vole during the last light of dusk. As the temperatures will drop well below zero this night, a full meal of a meadow vole will

A short-eared owl flies past with its lunch, a meadow vole it has just caught. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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... then grabs another from a nearby branch. Bohemian Waxwings will pluck fruit while perched, or they may hover briefly to snatch it.

Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS

Greater sage grouse live on sagebrush leaves , 99 percent of their diet, during winter months. Sage grouse lack muscular gizzards and cannot digest hard foods that require a gizzard to grind, like mo

Greater sage grouse live on sagebrush leaves , 99 percent of their diet, during winter months. Sage grouse lack muscular gizzards and cannot digest hard foods that require a gizzard to grind, like mo

Greater sage grouse live on sagebrush leaves , 99 percent of their diet, during winter months. Sage grouse lack muscular gizzards and cannot digest hard foods that require a gizzard to grind, like mo

Greater sage-grouse can satisfy their need for water during much of the year from the foods they eat. Their digestive system extracts the moisture from sage brush leaves and other vegetation they eat

Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

A juvenile red-tailed hawk has just finished eating an entire mountain cottontail. Learning to hunt successfully is one skill that a juvenile red-tailed hawk must learn quickly. Looks like this one

Five young Northern harrier chicks wait in anticipation of the next meal. On Seedskadee NWR, they are fed a steady diet of meadow voles and other small mammals and birds. Northern harriers nest on th

A Key Deer in an area burned the previous day in a prescribed fire at National Key Deer NWR

A great white heron shares the bank of the turn basin with a couple of wood storks in Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The turn basin provides a haven for birds and other w

Refuge, Frederick Stuart Church, 1912

paintings by frederick stuart church in the smithsonian american art museum frederick stuart church

A brown bear sow prepares to share a fresh-caught salmon with her cubs near the confluence of the Kenai and Russian Rivers in Alaska. Interactions between bears and humans are a favorite topic of the

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Fish and Wildlife Service biologists used these short-tailed albatross decoys to help attract some of the critically endangered birds to Midway Atoll. The chick on the left is a Laysan albatross. The

Sage thrashers feed primarily on terrestrial insects and arthropods, such as ants, grasshoppers, and ground beetles, which they find on Seedskadee NWR in the sage steppe, where they nest. They will

The beaver (genus Castor) is a primarily nocturnal, large, semi-aquatic rodent.
Here, two beavers enjoy the beautiful Fall weather on Des Lacs Lake.

Photo Credit: Kirsten Brennan/USFWS

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A uniquely numbered aluminum band is being placed on the leg of a juvenile Whooping Crane. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

Mourning doves have a gizzard that slowly grinds the seeds they eat. Grit, or tiny pieces of rocks are eaten along with the seeds to aid the gizzard in the grinding. Western harvester ant mounds mak

A great horned owl is perched on the transition from sage steppe to riparian habitats at Seedskadee NWR. Great horned owls are common in the river valley and their calls can be heard up and down the r

Credit: Bill Butcher/USFWS

A short-eared owl flies past with its lunch, a meadow vole it has just caught. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A mule deer buck follows a doe through a tall stand of basin wildrye on Seedskadee NWR. The backlighting of the sun makes the basin wildrye along with his polished antlers glow. Photo: Tom Koerner/U

The silhouette of a northern harrier on Seedskadee NWR. As their former common name, marsh hawk, suggests they are birds of the marshes. They hover and glide on the winds above emergent vegetation,

A Key Deer in an area burned the previous day in a prescribed fire at National Key Deer NWR Photo by Josh O'Connor - USFWS

The speculum on a green-winged teal drake normally looks irridescent green. The muted light of a slightly foggy day along with the angle of the wing give this drake a more blue looking spe

Greater sage grouse live on sagebrush leaves , 99 percent of their diet, during winter months. Sage grouse lack muscular gizzards and cannot digest hard foods that require a gizzard to grind, like mo

Greater sage grouse, sandhill cranes, trumpeter swans, and other bird species have all have been documented striking fences. In low light, the wires may not be visible to birds until it is too late.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

The tracks of both mountain cottontail rabbits and white-tailed jackrabbits left behind in the snow indicate lots of travel. Both species are cyclic in the sage steppe habitats on Seedskadee NWR and W

A soaring northern harrier over Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Image title: Saguaro cactus plant carnegiea gigantea cereus giganteus
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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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lue-winged Teals are small dabbling ducks that are occasionally found in the shallow ponds and wetlands of our local refuges. During migration some of them fly all the way to South America!

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Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie/

A male Northern harrier above and female below engage in aerial acrobatics as part of a courtship flight.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A Key Deer in an area burned the previous day in a prescribed fire at National Key Deer NWR Photo by Josh O'Connor - USFWS

A veterinarian is placing a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. This will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

A veterinarian is placing a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. This will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

Brown pelicans at a dredge spoils island owned by the State of North Carolina called "Pelican Island" near Pea Island National Wildlife refuge. One of the most popular Wings Over Water field trips tak

A juvenile Whooping Crane is carried from the holding pen so it can receive a health exam, be banded, and fitted with a radio transmitter. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL.

A pair of nesting Western grebes in a colony of approximately 200.
Location: Haglund Waterfowl Production Area, Chase Lake Wetland Management District
Credit: Neil Shook / USFWS

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Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie

Gadwalls are medium-sized ducks characterized by a general lack of bright coloration. Male gadwalls are gray-brown with a white belly and a black rump. In flight, a white speculum and chestnut and bla

Image title: San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
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WHITE FEMALE WOLF IN THE ATIGUN VALLEY. THIS WOLF DENS IN THE RIVERBANK OF THE ATIGUN INSIDE THE MAIN VALLEY ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTH OF GALBRAITH CAMP. SHE ROAMS AT LEAST 20 MILES A DAY IN SEARCH OF FO

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A Brewer's sparrow perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush at Seedskadee NWR. They are a common nester here, but getting a good look at one can be a challenge.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Refuge, Frederick Stuart Church, 1912

paintings by frederick stuart church in the smithsonian american art museum frederick stuart church

21 Safely reaching a City of Refuge

bible-story book

21 Safely reaching a City of Refuge

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Couple takes refuge from a storm, Moses van Uyttenbroeck

prints by moyses van wtenbrouck in the statens museum for kunst etchings in the statens museum for kunst

Merge immigrants community

Raising young is hard work: a female Savannah sparrow must gather 10 times her weight in food to feed herself and her young during the 8 days they are in the nest.
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Returning from its pampas wintering grounds in Argentina, the Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda takes advantage of the nesting and feeding habitat that Kirwin NWR and adjacent private land prairie

A veterinarian is placing a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. This will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

A juvenile Whooping Crane with a hood on it's head to keep it calm during handling appears to be watching biologists glue a colored band to its leg. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Pho

Entrance tracks of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

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A short-eared owl on Seedskadee NWR has just caught a meadow vole during the last light of dusk. It looks around cautiously for a few minutes to determine if any other predators have noticed its succ

Image title: San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
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A close-up of a hummingbird visiting a Rocky Mountain bee plant won first place in 2013.

Photo Credit: Bob Brown

$These nutria (a.k.a. 'coypus'- Myocastor coypus<i\>) were killed as part of a population control program at Rockefeller Wildlife Management Area, Louisiana, USA. They were stored in a freezer$

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Bald eagles begin nesting on Seedskadee NWR when winter still grips the landscape. This pair has been repairing its nest since early February and the famale started incubating its first egg about Feb

A golden eagle pauses while eating a white-tailed jackrabbit to look around. Swirling winds have stirred up the snow, making dots of color as the snow crystals reflect the sun at different angles.

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Cassandra taking refuge at the foot of the altar, James Pradier

sculptures in the musée calvet sculptures by james pradier

Luigi Nono, Refugium peccatorum, Luigi Nono

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Cassandra taking refuge at the foot of the altar, James Pradier

sculptures in the musée calvet sculptures by james pradier

Lix Coriolan chez Tullus

A San Joaquin Kit Fox at the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, Calif. The species was placed on the endangered list on March 11, 1967. Before the Kit Fox inhabited much of California’s San Joaq

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American coots are common nesters on Seedskadee NWR. They build their floating nests among the hard stem bulrush and cattails. As fall approaches, additional coots begin to migrate and stage in larg

In Pursuit
This golden eagle was pursuing a white-tailed jackrabbit along the Auto Tour Route. The golden eagle eaglets have hatched so he (I am speculating he is a he) is now feeding himself, the f

Oh My! What big feet you have!
Trumpeter swans are very big birds. Adult male trumpeters can weigh 21 to 38 pounds while adult female trumpeters weigh 20 to 25 pounds. To get all of that weight off th

This drake Northern pintail has not molted in to its breeding plumage. It is likely a juvenille from a late hatch and is just beginning to show some of its breeding plumage, with a little of the redd

A Northern harrier hovers above a flock of red-winged blackbirds burrowed into the cattails. Northern harriers, previously called marsh hawks, are birds of the wind. On breezy days, they soar, glide

Northern harriers are common on Seedskadee and Cokeville Meadows NWRs in Wyoming. They migrate through, winter, and nest here. Meadow voles found in the wetland and wet meadow habitats are one of th

Image title: Two west Indian manatee trichechus manatus nuzzling noses together
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Couple takes refuge from a storm, Moses van Uyttenbroeck

prints by moyses van wtenbrouck in the statens museum for kunst etchings in the statens museum for kunst

Lix Coriolan chez Tullus

The attack on our outer ramparts - first the house of refuge - then the public schools - then - the Constitution! LCCN2011661440, 1885

cartoons by joseph keppler puck, 1885

Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie/US

Just chillin......... Common nighthawks are most active from half an hour before until an hour after sunset, and again starting an hour before sunrise. They are very well camouflaged, and can be har

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