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

Credit: ken sturm/USFWS

Falco peregrinus tundrius at nest, Alaska - USFWS photo

Least Bittern, Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA
Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

04 May 2013

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

A white-tailed jackrabbit in the sage steppe at Seedskadee NWR backlit by the setting sun. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Ahem, I think you have a little something on your face.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

This white-tailed jackrabbit heads over the hill and into the sunset on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/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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Nestled on an alder leaf, this spring peeper will add its voice to a chorus of croakers as the season arrives.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Little brown bat with wing band. The band will help biologists and researchers identify individual bats from year to year.

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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The Western fence lizard eats beetles, flies, caterpillars, ants, other insects, and spiders.

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

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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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Credit: Bill Butcher/USFWS

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

Photo: Roy W. Lowe/USFWS

Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) are endemic to interior western and central North America. In North America they are commonly referred to as pronghorn antelop

Category: Bird Life

Photo Credit: J. Hodges

A male red-shafted Northern flicker on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Disney Wilderness Preserve
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

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Female Peregrine Falcon photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.
Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

An algae-covered snapping turtle ignores a nosy photographer while digging a nest at Waubay NWR.

Credit: Laura Hubers / USFWS

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Ann Froschauer (USFWS) with a common vampire bat at the BatsLIVE! Distance Learning Adventure dress rehearsal
www.batconservation.org/drupal/common_vampire

photo credit: USFS/Sandy Frost

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Category: Creative Nature - 3rd place

Photo Credit: L. Bush

Male elephants are shot by trophy hunters legally in some parts of Africa. Researchers are monitoring elephant behavior in and around hunting areas. Credit: Michelle Gadd/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

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse females at a lek (dancing or mating ground) near Bridgeport, CA.

A greater sage-grouse hen feeds in a wet meadow on Seedskadee NWR in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Listen for the call of the yellow-headed blackbird along the shores of the refuge lakes and among the cattails.

Photo Credit: USFWS / Cindy Souders

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Adult Marbled Murrelet on the Oregon Coast adjacent to Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, OR

Photo: Roy W. Lowe/USFWS

A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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Great Inagua has one of the largest populations of this greater flamingos in the world.

Photo Credit: Caleb Spiegel/USFWS

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

Photo credit: Marvin DeJong/USFWS

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

Black-capped chickadee in a sycamore tree at Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge.

Photo by Anna Weyers/USFWS.

Healthy little brown bat in Mt. Aeolus Cave

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

As spring approaches, the white winter coat is slowly replaced with a brown coat on this white-tailed jackrabbit. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Refuge staff band a blue-winged teal at Bowdoin NWR.

Credit: USFWS

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

Eastern Shore of Virginia Refuge. Photo: USFWS

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee holding a tern at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts.

Credit: James Weliver/USFWS

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

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Piping plover chicks and eggs at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge

Photo credit: Josh Seibel/USFWS

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Blanding's turtle release, Assabet River, MA.

Credit: Keith Shannon/USFWS

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Male downy woodpecker on the suet feeder at Prairie Wetlands Learning Center in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Photo by David Ellis/USFWS.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

A sage thrasher perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata at Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Credit: Zachary Cava/USFWS

Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

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

Photo: USFWS

Wildlife Refuge Specialists Pember shows Alex how to identify his Green-winged teal by looking at the wing. Photo by Mary Stefanski/USFWS.

This painted turtle was laying eggs at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

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A cinnamon teal feeding on submerged aquatic plants and insects. Reflections from the waters surface make a kaleidoscope of colors. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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

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

Harlequin Duck and Western Gull at Yaquina Bay in Newport, OR.

You are free to use this photo with the following credit: Joseph Sands, USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Bald eagle taking flight at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Credit: Bill Buchanan/USFWS

Royal terns at Belle Pass, La. by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS July 11, 2010 5318

Two male sage grouse catch the early morning sun on a ridge at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo Credit: 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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Common tern preening at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

Common Gallinule at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Little brown bat with wing band. The band will help biologists and researchers identify individual bats from year to year.

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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BCI educator Dianne Odegard holds Mexican free-tailed bat

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Horned larks, Wyoming big sagebrush, and snow.
Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) are endemic to interior western and central North America. In North America they are commonly referred to as pronghorn antelo

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Cape May National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Laura Perlick / USFWS

A Zoo Condor Program Coordinator, Mike Clark and L.A. Zoo Keeper Chandra David prepare a condor for an X Ray. Photo: Jon Myatt/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Muskrats are large rodents that always live near water. They are excellent swimmers, as demonstrated by this one outside of the visitor center.

USFWS / BJ Baker, National Elk Refuge volunteer

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A male greater sage-grouse in Wyoming big sagebrush on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

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

Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) are endemic to interior western and central North America. In North America they are commonly referred to as pronghorn antelop

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