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Healthy little brown bat in Mt. Aeolus Cave

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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A mountain bluebird in a narrow leaf cottonwood on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. A sure sign that spring is on its way. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Piping plover chicks and eggs at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge

Photo credit: Josh Seibel/USFWS

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The distinctive call of a Swanison's hawk, with a western meadowlark in the background.

Video: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Blanding's turtle release, Assabet River, MA.

Credit: Keith Shannon/USFWS

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Credit: USFWS; Andrew King

Biologists are measuring the area of bat clusters to estimate numbers of hibernating bats. This is an older survey technique. The new technique is to take digital photos

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Category: Creative Nature - 3rd place

Photo Credit: L. Bush

A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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Mulitple James spinymussels (Pleurobema collina) were found during a stream survey in August 2006 in southwestern Virginia. Credit: USFWS

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Photo: Shelley Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Grotto Lake in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Photo by Tim Weissman/USFWS.

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

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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Juvenile Wood turtle at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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Male wood duck at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

credit: ken sturm/usfws

Mispillion Harbor, Delaware. Credit: Gregory Breese/USFWS

A family group of trumpeter swans on the Hawley Unit of Seedskadee NWR. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Song sparrow at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

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

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

A gadwall hen and her brood appear from the emergent vegetation on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A gadwall hen and her brood appear out of emergent vegetation on Seedskadee NWR 02. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

A greater sage-grouse in grazed baltic rush in a seasonal wetland on Seedskadee NWR in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse in grazed baltic rush in a seasonal wetland on Seedskadee NWR in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A blue winged teal nest found in grassland in the Sand Lake Wetland Management District. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Check out that camouflage! Another cool snake sighting from Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri.

Video by USFWS.

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Bio Tech Sarah holds a least auklet by Laney White/USFWS. St George Island, Alaska

Credit: Rosie Walunas/USFWS

A red necked phalarope (adult male) on Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

An adult trumpeter swan leads four cygnets to a roost site for the night. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Trumpeter swans flying upriver on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, MA. Credit: Matt Poole/USFWS

Category: Bird Life

Photo Credit: V. Shearer

Located on the edge of a steep incline, this lynx den was difficult to locate and operate around.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Male Kirtland's warbler from Adams county, Wisconsin. Photo by Joel Trick/USFWS.

Waterfowl feeding in shallow waters of Pond 6 on Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Bob Danley / USFWS

A greater sage-grouse drinking from a wetland on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge, VA. Credit: USFWS

A white-tailed jackrabbit runs through the sage steppe on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A leopard frog in a South Dakota seasonal wetland. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Category: Animal Behavior

Photo Credit: L. Bush

Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps on nest. Photo Credit: K. Hodges

Common Gallinule at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Common tern preening at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

Tern chick and adult at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts.

Credit: James Weliver/USFWS

Two male northern harriers having a dispute. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Bristol County Agricultural School sophomores partnered with species experts to raise Blanding's turtles and released them in late spring into wetland habitat.

Credit: Keith Shannon/USFWS

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

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

Townsend's big-eared bats exiting maternity colony site (mine) near Marble, CO

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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Photo: American coots feeding during a foggy sunrise on Seedskadee NWR. Tom Koerner/USFWS

Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

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

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

A trio of trumpeter swans swim upstream as the sun sets over Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, MT

Photo: Erin Clark, USFWS

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/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

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

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

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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

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

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

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

This young muskrat was repeatedly diving into shallow portions of the river and returning to shore with submerged aquatic vegetation to eat. 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

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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USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

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

Photo Credit: Caleb Spiegel/USFWS

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

Female Peregrine Falcon photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

A Cooper's Hawk waits for its next meal on the bird feeder at the Visitor's Center on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Black-billed magpies quickly move in on what is left of a white-tailed jackrabbit killed by a golden eagle.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Black-billed magpies quickly move in on what is left of a white-tailed jackrabbit killed by a golden eagle.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A Bohemian Waxwing eyes a piece of fruit from a tree outside the National Elk Refuge administrative offices.

Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS

A horned lark sits on a pile of frozen slush at the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Tony Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Male greater sage-grouse struts to attract females at a lek (breeding or dancing ground) near Bodie, California in April. (Jeannie Stafford/USFWS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts to attract females at a lek (breeding or dancing ground) near Bodie, California in April. (Jeannie Stafford/USFWS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts to attract females at a lek (breeding or dancing ground) near Bodie, California in April. (Jeannie Stafford/USFWS)

Greater sage-grouse eating phlox on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Look close, one mule deer buck is watching the front while the other is watching the back. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

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Biologist applies wing band to little brown bat. The band will help biologists and researchers identify individual bats from year to year.

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Biologist applies wing band to little brown bat. The band will help biologists and researchers identify individual bats from year to year.

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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