453 Free Images of United States Fish And Wildlife Service Southeast Region

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This nest was found and marked by volunteers patrolling Carolina Beach in North Carolina. On August 7, a crowd gathered at an adjacent nest that was expected to hatch that night but it didn't. Whil
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Scientific name: Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri Common name Mona Island Iguana Common name Spanish: Iguana de Mona Status: Threatened Listed on February 3, 1978 Location: Puerto Rico Photo by Jan Pa
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Black bear takes a morning stroll across a harvested field at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. A percentage of refuge farm crops are grown for wildlife. Photo credit: Rock, USFWS
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A veterinarian prepares to place a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. The hood will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS
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At Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana. www.fws.gov/blackbayoulake/. Thank you Dendroica cerulea for identifying this bird. Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.
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Colored leg bands and a radio transmitter designed to indicate movement on the legs of a juvenile Whooping Crane. The transmitter will allow biologists to locate it using a special receiver. Wheeler N
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA Reddish egrets and juveniles gather on the beach to feed in the shallow waves. Credit: USFWS/Molly Martin
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Scientific name: Peltophryne lemur Puerto Rican Crested Toad Spanish: Sapo Concho Puertorriqueño Location, Puertu Rico Photo by Carlos Pacheco,USFWS More information about the Puerto Rican Creste
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA It's a long haul, but every step is invaluable to the hatchling's survival. The hatchlings imprint the beach as they walk using the magnetic field to return 35 yea
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA The knobbed whelk is a popular among beachcombers, who often mistake them for conch shells. Knobbed whelk females make these egg casings and stuff them under roc
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Scientific name: Accipiter striatus venator Common name in Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk Common name in Spanish: falcón de sierra Photo by Mike Morel Location: Puerto Rico More information:
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA As alligators age, they tend to lose the "callico" or yellowish coloring on their heads and bodies. Usually, gators loose this pattern around 4 years of age. you
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August 1, 2010, Apalachicola, Florida - Brown Pelicans flying over St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge. This image was taken during an aerial survey from a helicopter along the Florida coastline and
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Scientific name: Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri Common name Mona Island Iguana Common name Spanish: Iguana de Mona Status: Threatened Listed on February 3, 1978 Location: Puerto Rico Photo by Mike M
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Sophia, a rehabilitated turtle at the José A Rivero, Puerto Rico Zoo. Scientific name: Chelonia mydas Common name Spanish: Peje Blanco, tortuga verde Photo Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Photo by
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA She's crawled. She's dug. She's laid. She's covered. Now she returns to the warm Atlantic waters to breed again so she can lay more nests. A Loggerhead typically
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA This Loggerhead baby is taking his time to adjust to his new surroundings and strengthen his muscles before his long journey to the middle of the Atlantic. Once in
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Scientific name: Trichechus manatus Common name Spanish: Manatí antillano Status: Endangered Listed on March 11, 1967 and December 2, 1970 Photo by Mike Morel Location: Puerto Rico More informati
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A Mountain Heritage High School Eco-Club member holds up an Appalachian elktoe found in the North Toe River during the 2011 Endangered Species Day float. Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS www.fws.gov/ashevill
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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! Photo cre
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA Even though the initial waves have washed the carapace clean, this female loggerhead is on her way out into the Atlantic Ocean to mate again. She weighs close to
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA Contemplating his next move. He is so tiny compared to the little holes in the sand and the fine lines left by the last waves. Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba
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Meanwhile, on the refuge's west side, the cameras cap-tured a second family group with two kittens. They look to be about one month older than those in the first family group. Unique morphological cha
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August 5, 2010 - Dauphin Island, Alabama. Disaster Animal Response Team member Karen Burns receives an oiled juvenile Northern Gannet from Thea Hamm while team member Lisa Pittman looks on. Credit: C
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The Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge trail camera study provides eyes and ears for biologists to study panthers and their favorite food sources remotely. In just 6 months of the study, the re
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One of two bald eagles were found dead in a field about 50 yards apart near Martinez Rd. in Thibodaux, LA. Poisoning is suspected. A GPS unit was placed near it as a size reference. Public Domain Pho
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA The mother Loggerhead cries salt water tears as she lays her eggs in the white sands on Blackbeard Island. She will never again return to check on her eggs, but m
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Scientific name: Chelonia mydasCommon name Spanish: Peje blanco, tortuga verde Photo: Caroline S. Rogers, USGSStatus: Threatened, Listed on July 28, 1978 For more information: ecos.fws.gov/speciesProf
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA Baby sea turtles make their way to the sea, leaving behind a super highway in the sand. Not all babies head the same direction. Some often wander back into the du
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December-6-2011, Wood duck boxes can be found in marshes all along the island. Photo taken by Zach Brooker, USFWS. www.fws.gov/charleston
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Brown pelicans perch on boom at Queen Bess Island, Louisiana, duirng BP oil spill response.
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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Environmental journalist Mike Di Paola photographs excavation of a Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest at Fort Pickens, Gulf Islands National Seashore. Credit: Cather
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Scientifi name: Trichechus manatus Common name manatee Common name Spanish: manatí Photo by Darryl Stansbury Status: Endngered Lislted on March 11, 1967 and December 2, 1970
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA Even though most nests hatch at night to avoid mammalian predators, these little guys seem to camouflage well enough in the wrack line. Nevertheless, this place is
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA This hatchling has already made it farther in life than a lot of his siblings and peers. His egg developed successfully without mutations. He has overcome the thre
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August 5, 2010 - Dauphin Island, Alabama. Disaster Animal Response Team Kerri Burns (left) and Karen Burns transport an oiled juvenile Northern Gannet from a boat to a van for transportation to the T
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August 2010 - Mobile Bay Alabama. A young pelican balances on a hard oil boom off the shore of Gaillard Island, an island made of silt dredged from Mobile Bay. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS. w
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July 11, 2010 Destin, FL - A Northern Gannet with no visible oil was rescued near Destin Harbor, FL. The gannet could not fly but was not visibly oiled. Photo by USFWS. www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill
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July 24, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA It's all downhill from here as this juvenile turtle maneuvers over the cage that his doting biological interns placed over his nest to protect them from predators
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Flock of red knots (Calidris canutus) at sunrise at Folly Beach, South Carolina.
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July 25, 2010, Indian Pass, Florida- Willets are large shorebirds that are common along the Florida panhandle. Credit: Nicole Rankin, USFWS. www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill
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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Biologists excavate 89 eggs from a Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest at the National Park Service's Gulf Islands Naional Seashore near Fort Pickens. Credit: Catherin
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Photo is public domain Red wolf found shot in Washington County, N.C. on Nov. 18, 2013 This is the fifth red wolf killed or missing in less than a month. Photo by USFWS. USFWS NEWS RELEASE U.S. Fi
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August 2010 - Dauphin Island, Alabama. Disaster Animal Response Team Kerri Burns (left) and Karen Burns transport an oiled juvenile Northern Gannet from a boat to a van for transportation to the Theo
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Scientific name: Accipiter striatus venator Common name in Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk Common name in Spanish: falcón de sierra Photo by Mike Morel Location: Puerto Rico More information:
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July 23, 2010, Panama City, FL - Brown pelicans were seen perched atop a number of structures including this piling in St. Andrews Bay. This image was taken during an aerial survey from a helicopter a
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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA This dawn nester on Blackbeard Island lays her eggs in the sand after "body pitting" and digging an inverted light bulb shaped nest. "Body pitting" is when the fe
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Scientific name: Eritmochelys imbricata. Spanish: Carey de Concha. Status: Endangered. Listed on June 2, 1970 Photo by Caroline S. Rogers, available through NOAA More information about Hawksbill
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August 2010 - Mobile Bay Alabama. A young pelican balances on a hard oil boom off the shore of Gaillard Island, an island made of silt dredged from Mobile Bay. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS. w
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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island Wind them up and watch them go! Their "wind up" comes from their own yolks they absorb to power them with enough energy for the next 48 hours. They will need every las
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The Carolina northern flying squirrel is a cold-weather animal descendent from the northern flying squirrels pushed south by the ice sheets that covered northern latitudes during the last ice age. Whe
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July 25, 2010, Indian Pass, Florida - Gulls, terns, and brown pelicans were abundant on beaches in Indian Pass, FL. Ground crew biologists were surveying this area searching for birds in distress. Cre
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Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea Common name Spanish: Tinglar Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands More information: ecos.fws.gov
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