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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.

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

Atlantic puffins courtship billing at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
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

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

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

Tom Koerner/USFWS

A sage thrasher perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush.

Photo: 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

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

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

Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

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

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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Healthy little brown bat in Mt. Aeolus Cave

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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

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

Photo by Anna Weyers/USFWS.

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

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

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Category: Creative Nature - 3rd place

Photo Credit: L. Bush

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Category: Bird Life

Photo Credit: J. Hodges

Tom Koerner/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

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

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

04 May 2013

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

Disney Wilderness Preserve
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

www.fws.gov/pelicanisland/

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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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

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

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

Red-winged blackbird at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

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

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

Photographed at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Bri Rudinsky/USFWS

http://www.fws.gov/refuge/rachel_carson/

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

Yellow-crowned night heron foraging on Great Inagua Island.

Photo Credit: Caleb Spiegel/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Credit: James Weliver/USFWS

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

A trio of trumpeter swans swim upstream as the sun sets over Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/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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Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, MD

Photo: Bill Buchanan, USFWS

Lone white-faced ibis heading to greener pastures through the blue Cokeville Meadows sky.

K. Theule/USFWS

Willet (Tringa semipalmata) at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: USFWS

This female spruce grouse was spotted at Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan. It is the most elusive of the three grouse species found on the refuge!

Photo by USFWS.

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

USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

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

Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, 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

animals mammals

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Category: Animal Behavior

Photo Credit: L. Bush

Wild turkey are ready to greet you at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Now is a great time to get outside!

Photo by Mara Koenig/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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Cackling Geese near Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge. You are free to use this photo with the following credit: Joseph Sands, 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

A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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