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Wood stork foraging at Pelican Island National Wildlife refuge. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

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Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge,
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
January 2012

Photo: 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

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/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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Eastern Shore of Virginia Refuge. Photo: USFWS

Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, OR
Nesting colony on Colony Rock at Yaquina Head

Photo: Roy W. Lowe/USFWS

A flock of greater sage-grouse fly across the Green River at Sunset on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

Artificial nest for the breeding of Puerto Rican parrot.

May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS

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Aside from GPS and radio collars, lynx scat can alert biologists to the presence of Canada Lynx in their region of study.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

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Disney Wilderness Preserve
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

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The fine hair on a Canada goose gosling shines in the morning sun.

USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Now that spring has arrived, we've been seeing a lot of muskrat activity at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa.

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

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Atlantic puffins courtship billing at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

Two cygnets, or young of the year, trumpeter swans feed among the ice floes in the Green River on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

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

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, MT

Photo: Erin Clark, USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

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

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

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

Video by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

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

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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

USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

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

The electric blue of a mountain bluebird stands out against the subdued background of greasewood and Wyoming sagebrush. 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

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

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photographed at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Bri Rudinsky/USFWS

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Harris's Hawks are common at Santa Ana, and often permit photographers to get relatively close.

Photo credit: Marvin DeJong/USFWS

Rob Mies (Organization for Bat Conservation), a Malayan Flying Fox, and Ann Froschauer (USFWS) in dress rehearsal for the BatsLIVE! Distance Learning Adventure
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Lone white-faced ibis heading to greener pastures through the blue Cokeville Meadows sky.

K. Theule/USFWS

White faced ibis on Seedskadee NWR. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Bell's Vireo (Vireo bellii) public domain from USFWS

A mule deer buck in riparian habitat along the Green River on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Two male sage grouse catch the early morning sun on a ridge at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

Wildlife Refuge Specialists Pember shows Alex how to identify his Green-winged teal by looking at the wing. Photo by Mary Stefanski/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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Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont, March 26, 2009

Credit: Marvin Moriarty/USFWS

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Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont, March 26, 2009

Credit: Marvin Moriarty/USFWS

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Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont, March 26, 2009

Credit: Marvin Moriarty/USFWS

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

BCI educator Dianne Odegard shows visitor a Mexican free-tailed bat

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Western fence lizards range from central Idaho, south through Nevada, and west to the Pacific Coast.

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

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A juvenile Swainson's hawk on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Gila Woodpecker. Public domain from USFWS. Possibly taken at Colorado River.

Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program restoration project in Las Vegas, completed in partnership with Red Rock Audubon. Photo by Joe Milmoe / USFWS.

Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

Eye to Eye A trumpeter swan headed upriver at Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A bevy of trumpeter swans on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Atlantic puffins at Matinicus Rock at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

A sage thrasher perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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