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A juvenile red-tailed hawk on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A juvenile red-tailed hawk has just finished eating an entire mountain cottontail. Learning to hunt successfully is one skill that a juvenile red-tailed hawk must learn quickly. Looks like this one

Tundra Swans pair monogamously until one partner dies. Should one partner die long before the other, the surviving bird often will not mate again for some years, or even for its entire life.

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Gadwalls are medium-sized ducks characterized by a general lack of bright coloration. Male gadwalls are gray-brown with a white belly and a black rump. In flight, a white speculum and chestnut and bla

A male mountain bluebird pauses for a moment after catching a grasshopper. All is clear, so he quickly feeds one of the young bluebirds through the nest cavity hole and sets off to find another one.

A soaring northern harrier over Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Less agile than the common gray squirrel, the Delmarva fox squirrel often ambles along the forest floor
rather than leaping from branch to branch.

The animal usually avoids
confrontations by running

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Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

lue-winged Teals are small dabbling ducks that are occasionally found in the shallow ponds and wetlands of our local refuges. During migration some of them fly all the way to South America!

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Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie

A juvenile Whooping Crane in a hood designed to keep it calm during handling is ready for being banded and having a radio transmitter attached to one of its legs. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Dec

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A brown bear sow prepares to share a fresh-caught salmon with her cubs near the confluence of the Kenai and Russian Rivers in Alaska. Interactions between bears and humans are a favorite topic of the

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A Key Deer in an area burned the previous day in a prescribed fire at National Key Deer NWR Photo by Josh O'Connor - USFWS

A great white heron shares the bank of the turn basin with a couple of wood storks in Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The turn basin provides a haven for birds and other w

Brown pelican snares a stick for nest building at Breton NWR. May 3, 2010 by USFWS Tom MacKenzie. Taken during a bird count preassessment prior to the oil spill making landfall. 1868

A short-eared owl on Seedskadee NWR has just caught and eaten a meadow vole during the last light of dusk. As the temperatures will drop well below zero this night, a full meal of a meadow vole will

Greater sage grouse, sandhill cranes, trumpeter swans, and other bird species have all have been documented striking fences. In low light, the wires may not be visible to birds until it is too late.

Greater sage grouse live on sagebrush leaves , 99 percent of their diet, during winter months. Sage grouse lack muscular gizzards and cannot digest hard foods that require a gizzard to grind, like mo

A mule deer buck follows a doe through a tall stand of basin wildrye on Seedskadee NWR. The backlighting of the sun makes the basin wildrye along with his polished antlers glow. Photo: Tom Koerner/U

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Raising young is hard work: a female Savannah sparrow must gather 10 times her weight in food to feed herself and her young during the 8 days they are in the nest.
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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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In Pursuit
This golden eagle was pursuing a white-tailed jackrabbit along the Auto Tour Route. The golden eagle eaglets have hatched so he (I am speculating he is a he) is now feeding himself, the f

Northern harriers are common on Seedskadee and Cokeville Meadows NWRs in Wyoming. They migrate through, winter, and nest here. Meadow voles found in the wetland and wet meadow habitats are one of th

Image title: San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
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A veterinarian is placing a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. This will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

A veterinarian is placing a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. This will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

A juvenile Whooping Crane is carried from the holding pen so it can receive a health exam, be banded, and fitted with a radio transmitter. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL.

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It is pretty rare to see a coot flying. They are really poor at flight as they do not fly often and their flight muscles are poorly developed. When they do decide to actually fly, they need a really

Brown pelicans at a dredge spoils island owned by the State of North Carolina called "Pelican Island" near Pea Island National Wildlife refuge. One of the most popular Wings Over Water field trips tak

Couple takes refuge from a storm, Moses van Uyttenbroeck

prints by moyses van wtenbrouck in the statens museum for kunst etchings in the statens museum for kunst

Cassandra taking refuge at the foot of the altar, James Pradier

sculptures in the musée calvet sculptures by james pradier

A golden eagle pauses while eating a white-tailed jackrabbit to look around. Swirling winds have stirred up the snow, making dots of color as the snow crystals reflect the sun at different angles.

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Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie

A short-eared owl flies past with its lunch, a meadow vole it has just caught. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A close-up of a hummingbird visiting a Rocky Mountain bee plant won first place in 2013.

Photo Credit: Bob Brown

A male Northern harrier above and female below engage in aerial acrobatics as part of a courtship flight.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A San Joaquin Kit Fox at the California Living Museum in Bakersfield, Calif. The species was placed on the endangered list on March 11, 1967. Before the Kit Fox inhabited much of California’s San Joaq

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Image title: San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
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Just chillin......... Common nighthawks are most active from half an hour before until an hour after sunset, and again starting an hour before sunrise. They are very well camouflaged, and can be har

A Key Deer in an area burned the previous day in a prescribed fire at National Key Deer NWR Photo by Josh O'Connor - USFWS

A uniquely numbered aluminum band is being placed on the leg of a juvenile Whooping Crane. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

A juvenile Whooping Crane with a hood on it's head to keep it calm during handling appears to be watching biologists glue a colored band to its leg. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Pho

Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie/

A pair of nesting Western grebes in a colony of approximately 200.
Location: Haglund Waterfowl Production Area, Chase Lake Wetland Management District
Credit: Neil Shook / USFWS

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WHITE FEMALE WOLF IN THE ATIGUN VALLEY. THIS WOLF DENS IN THE RIVERBANK OF THE ATIGUN INSIDE THE MAIN VALLEY ABOUT FIVE MILES SOUTH OF GALBRAITH CAMP. SHE ROAMS AT LEAST 20 MILES A DAY IN SEARCH OF FO

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American coots are common nesters on Seedskadee NWR. They build their floating nests among the hard stem bulrush and cattails. As fall approaches, additional coots begin to migrate and stage in larg

Bald eagles begin nesting on Seedskadee NWR when winter still grips the landscape. This pair has been repairing its nest since early February and the famale started incubating its first egg about Feb

A Northern harrier hovers above a flock of red-winged blackbirds burrowed into the cattails. Northern harriers, previously called marsh hawks, are birds of the wind. On breezy days, they soar, glide

A veterinarian is placing a hood on a juvenile Whooping Crane. This will help keep the bird calm while it is handled. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL. Photo: Bill Gates, USFWS

Returning from its pampas wintering grounds in Argentina, the Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda takes advantage of the nesting and feeding habitat that Kirwin NWR and adjacent private land prairie

A short-eared owl flies past with its lunch, a meadow vole it has just caught. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Entrance tracks of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta)
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

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A Brewer's sparrow perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush at Seedskadee NWR. They are a common nester here, but getting a good look at one can be a challenge.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Lix Coriolan chez Tullus

Lottin-Caravan, Pierre-Victorien Lottin, 1887

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Eaglets grow very quickly! Within six weeks of birth, they are almost the same size as their parents.

Photo Credit: Rich Keen / DPRA

A short-eared owl on Seedskadee NWR has just caught a meadow vole during the last light of dusk. It looks around cautiously for a few minutes to determine if any other predators have noticed its succ

Oh My! What big feet you have!
Trumpeter swans are very big birds. Adult male trumpeters can weigh 21 to 38 pounds while adult female trumpeters weigh 20 to 25 pounds. To get all of that weight off th

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Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie/US

09 Psalm 104 v18 The high hills are a refuge for the Wild Goats

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A Northern harrier soars overhead on Seedskadee NWR. Harriers are birds of the wind, and soar over the wetlands and riparian habitas along the Green River. Small birds, voles, and mice are their pre

Oh My! What big feet you have!
Trumpeter swans are very big birds. Adult male trumpeters can weigh 21 to 38 pounds while adult female trumpeters weigh 20 to 25 pounds. To get all of that weight off th

This drake Northern pintail has not molted in to its breeding plumage. It is likely a juvenille from a late hatch and is just beginning to show some of its breeding plumage, with a little of the redd

Berenice, wife of Antiochus Theos, and her son take refuge in Daphne, Edward Francis Burney

drawings in the metropolitan museum of art edward francisco burney

Leroux 1859 Verdun, Louis Hector Leroux

collections of musée de la princerie louis hector leroux

The attack on our outer ramparts - first the house of refuge - then the public schools - then - the Constitution! LCCN2011661440, 1885

cartoons by joseph keppler puck, 1885

Glaucous-winged Gulls (Larus glaucescens) and Sea Lions at Hazy Islands Wilderness, Alaska, USA.

Paul Klee Refuge 1930 Norton Simon, Paul Klee

expressionism,surrealism,pointillism,bauhaus,color field paintings by paul klee

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A large alligator checks out a prescribed fire at Ace Basin NWR. The prescribed fire was conducted by USFWS firefighters on 3/10/14 to help reduce wildfire risk and improve wildlife habitat.

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Swainson's hawks have one of the longest migration routes of raptors. They spend the winter in Argentina and migrate back to western North America for the summer, a roundtrip journey of up to 17,000 m

The distinctive plumage of a soaring rough-legged hawk over Seedskadee NWR. They are one of the few Buteos that will routinely hover in place while hunting. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Joshua 20 v01-09, Psalm 62 v07 The Cities of Refuge (anon 1907)

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Cool Facts about the Common Raven
The Common Raven is an acrobatic flier, often doing rolls and somersaults in the air. One bird was seen flying upside down for more than a half-mile. Young birds are

Few raptors exhibit sexual dimorphism to the degree of the Northern harrier. Males (top) are smaller and a ghostly silver overall, with black wingtips. Females (bottom) are mostly dark brown, heavily

US Navy 090704-N-1062H-073 Air Traffic Controller 1st Class Luke Wray plays with Cruiser, a dog at the Dogs Refuge Home, during a community service project

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After a short eared owl captured a meadow vole, a prairie falcon chased the owl down and swiped the vole. A rough legged-hawk got there too late. Left to right - rough-legged hawk, prairie falcon wi

Gennevilliers.Rue du Moulin-de-la-Tour

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Theodore Clement Steele - The Muscatatuck, Theodore Clement Steele

paintings by theodore clement steele hoosier group

His Majesty Shah Shoojah-ool-Moolk. The governor's place of refuge during the capture of the fortress LCCN2016647844 (cropped), 1842

sketches in afghaunistan (1842)shuja shah durrani

22 Fleeing to the City of Refuge

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33 Running to a City of Refuge

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Temistokles finds refuge with king Admet, Franz Caucig, by 1801

paintings in the czech republic paintings by franc kavčič

Photo credit: USFWS/George Gentry

In populated coastal areas, wetland migration is often constrained by land development and shoreline stabilization measures. These conditions can result in the crowd

Gunshot red wolf found on private property north of the Town of Swanquarter, in western Hyde County, North Carolina, on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Public domain Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv

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We don't see short-eared owls at Seedskadee NWR often, but in some years a number of them may spend the winter with us, when meadow voles are abundant. Short-eared owls are one of the few owl species

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Cool Facts About Rough-Legged Hawks
The name "Rough-legged" hawk refers to the feathered legs. The rough-legged hawk, the ferruginous hawk, and the golden eagle are the only American raptors to have l

Berne-Bellecour 1859, Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour

étienne-prosper berne-bellecour military art

A juvenile whooping crane with a hood on to keep it calm appears to be watching biologist Eva Szyszkoski, International Crane Foundation, place a radio transmitter on its leg. Wheeler National Wildli

January 2013 - US Fish and Wildlife Service employee Mary Jo Hill attempting to locate two radio collared mountain lions siblings (a male and a female) with radio direction finding equipment. They had

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