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Young American White Pelicans on Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota.

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A Wilson's phalarope (adult female) forages in a shallow wetland on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis, USFWS Pacific Southwest Region, USA.

A male Northern harrier at Seedskadee Natioanal Wildlife Refuge.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Female Wood Turtles Testing Experimental Nest Box at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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Female Wood Turtle with Radio Transmitter at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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Common goldeneyes at last light on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Forest elephants gather at clearings, which unfortunately makes them susceptible to ambush by poachers. Credit: Richard Ruggiero/USFWS

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A collared wolf watches near a group of wintering elk.

Credit: USFWS / Tony and Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteers

For the second year in a row, Missisquoi NWR provides nesting habitat for bald eagles.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Wonder what got this greater sage-grouse so ruffled? Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse walks to a night roost in sage-steppe habitat on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Greater sage-grouse eating Wyoming big sagebrush leaves. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Here's a new one, hoar frost on a white-tailed jackrabbit at Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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By: Carlos Pacheco USFWS
May 01, 2012

A crested toad was available on our table for the exhibition.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Volunteers were ready to come right back to help the refuge in its recovery efforts.

Photo by USFWS.

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Juvenile Wood turtle at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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Female forest elephants have a close bond with all of their families for all their lives. A mother with offspring drinking from a spring. Credit: Michelle Gadd/USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Male wood duck at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

credit: ken sturm/usfws

Beaver lodge at Seney National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.

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A Barrow's Goldeneye swims in the icy water of Flat Creek on the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

The upland sandpiper is a shorebird that prefers the prairie. You may see them perched on wooden fence posts or tree stumps.

Phot Credit: Gary Eslinger / USFWS

An adult trumpeter swan and two cygnets flying upriver on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Ring-billed Gull at Whitefish Point Unit of Seney National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by USFWS.

Four condors await medical evaluation at the condor capture facility at Hopper Mountain NWR. Jon Myatt/USFWS

Four condors await medical evaluation at the condor capture facility at Hopper Mountain NWR. Jon Myatt/USFWS

Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: R. Baak, USFWS

The hatchery maintains a captive population for breeding, rearing, and refugia, and progeny from this program will be used for reintroduction efforts.

Credit: USFWS

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

Parrots eating their daily diet.

A cinnamon teal brood feeding on submerged aquatic vegetation and insects on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Check out this colorful visitor recently spotted at Neosho National Fish Hatchery in Missouri!

Photo by Bruce Hallman/USFWS.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A pygmy rabbit (Sylvilagus idahoensis) feeds on sagebrush during the winter on Seedskadee NWR

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

An adult male mourning dove feeding in the sage-steppe on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse feeds on Wyoming big sagebrush on Seedskadee NWR in SW Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse walks to a night roost in sage-steppe habitat on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Two mature mule deer bucks in late summer on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A redhead duck runs across the water on takeoff at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Grotto Lake in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Photo by Tim Weissman/USFWS.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Volunteer banding a young 6-week old osprey at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: USFWS

An osprey keeps watch from a wooden post on the south end of the National Elk Refuge.

USFWS / BJ Baker, National Elk Refuge volunteer

This species of shorebirds can be seen throughout the southern Great Plains in shortgrass habitats.

Photo credit: USFWS

Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) found on Malan Waterfowl Protection Area in Michigan on June 14, 2015. Photo by Jim Hudgins/USFWS

Smith's Longspur Calcarius pictus, Neal Smith NWR, Iowa.

Credit: Paul Roisen/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Brrrrr....... Muskrats live in cold/icy water in the winters and keeping a waterproof coat is essential to survival. Taken on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Ruddy turnstone on Berry Islands. (one of the most commonly seen shorebirds)

Photo Credit: Caleb Spiegel/USFWS

Mosquitoes bugging you? You’re not the only one! Check out this irritated turtle.

Video by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

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By: Danna Liurova (DRV) USFWS YAP
May 02, 2012

A chick inside an artificial nest.

By: Danna Liurova (DRV) USFWS YAP
May 02, 2012

A couple of Yellow-shouldered Blackbird.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Greater sage-grouse on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

The first rays of sunshine shure feels good after an over night low of -24F.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Great Lizard Cuckoo - species is only found on Puerto Rico, Cuba, and 3 Bahamian islands.

Photo Credit: Caleb Spiegel/USFWS

This tufted titmouse was spotted near the Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in Iowa.

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

Black-throated Sparrows are common in the sagebrush steppe ecosystem.

You are free to use this photo with the following credit: Elizabeth Materna, USFWS

It is always a good idea to check your backtrail when you are a mule deer. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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You never know what might surprise you! This gray fox popped out of the woods only five feet from where we were standing.

Photo by Tammy Mealman/USFWS.

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Only days away from their first attempt at flight. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage grouse walks past the Seedskadee NWR headquarters on the way to the Green River. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse walks to a night roost in sage-steppe habitat on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Male yellow-headed blackbirds sitting on the fence next to a water hole on the Pixley Ditch at Cokeville Meadows, WY.

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Category: Other Wildlife - 2nd place

Photo Credit: J. Barney

American bullfrog at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

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The first Canada goose gosling of the spring on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

By: Danna Liurova (DRV) USFWS YAP
May 01, 2012

The Puerto Rican Crested Toad (Sapo Concho).

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Cottontail rabbits are a frequent sight at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo Credit: John Carr / USFWS

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The electric blue of a mountain bluebird stands out against the subdued background of greasewood and Wyoming sagebrush. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Onlookers watch as Mexican free-tailed bats exiting Bracken Bat Cave

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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A Northern harrier hunts during a foggy sunrise on Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

On the first day western meadowlarks returned to Seedskadee NWR, we had a spring snow squall to welcome their arrival.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS

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Both sexes in African elephants have ivory tusks. Elephant males have bigger, thicker tusks than females. Credit: Richard Ruggiero/USFWS

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Wild Turkeys in a private farm field adjacent to the Missisquoi NWR, Vermont

Credit: USFWS

A mallard drake floats into a wetland on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

MDC biologist Tony Elliot collects research samples from a healthy Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii, Grayling, Michigan. Photo By Jim Hudgins/USFWS

By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

A Puerto Rican parrot eating fruit.

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Several trumpeter swans gather on the edge of the ice along the Flat Creek.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A Brewer's sparrow perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush at Seedskadee NWR in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Jenny Sanders, with the Little Tennessee Watershed Association, holds a wavy-rayed lampmussel in her hand.
Credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS

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Closeup photo of James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina) found during a stream survey in August 22, 2006. Credit: USFWS

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Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica at Tijuana Slough NWR, California. (R. Baak/USFWS).

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

The snowy owl is the most powerful North American owl. This owl is active during the day and night.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

Artificial nest for the breeding of Puerto Rican parrot.

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

A roseate tern at the Nantucket National Wildlife Refuge, MA. Credit: Amanda Boyd/USFWS

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