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At Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. Credit: Allie Stewart, USFWS.

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Scenery and wildlife at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota

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Photo by Mary Ellen Urbanski for 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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Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont, March 26, 2009

Credit: Marvin Moriarty/USFWS

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Photo of the Week - 2/13/12

White-breasted nuthatch photographed in Hadley, Massachusetts.

Credit: Bill Thompson/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

Credit: Rosie Walunas/USFWS

Photographed at Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Fred Yost/USFWS

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

Royal tern near Port Fourchon at Belle Pass, La. by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS July 11, 2010

Short-horned lizards have an array of defenses to dissuade would-be predators, including a spike-covered exterior.

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

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Black Terns At Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Lesser yellowlegs at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

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

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

Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

A striped skunk helps clean up the leftovers at a Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge bird feeder in September 2010.

Credit: Jason St. Sauver / USFWS

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Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

A great blue heron awaits the return of spring on a late March afternoon on the Visitor Center lawn of the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming.

Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS

Greater Sage-grouse on lek in spring. Males display to attract females in open, designated areas called leks, or dancing grounds. Bowdoin WMD.

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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)

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Common Gallinule, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

13 June 2014

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

A hen and drake cinnamon teal. The slight spatulate tip of the bill on the hen identifies her as a cinnamon teal and not a blue-winged teal hen.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Check out this beautiful snapping turtle getting ready to lay her eggs at Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan!

Photo by USFWS.

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Photo by Mary Ellen Urbanski for USFWS.

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Hawk outside of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Regional Office, August 14 2013 on top of a light post.

Photo Credit: Beth Decker/USFWS

Credit: Allie Stewart, 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

Category: Animal Behavior

Photo Credit: J. Hodges

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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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

Common Grackle fledgling, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

12 June 2015

Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse male struts at a lek (dancing or mating ground) near Bridgeport, CA to attract a mate.

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

A hen sage grouse leads her brood from wetlands to a night roost in sagebrush on Seedskadee NWR. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse eating leaves from a Wyoming big sagebrush plant on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

A greater sage-grouse hen and her brood feed on insects and green leaves as they stroll towards the wet meadows for the day.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Credit: Lily Dancy-Jones/USFWS

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Grotto Lake in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Photo by Tim Weissman/USFWS.

This rough-legged hawk was injured. After resting for a few hours, the hawk recovered and was released.

Photo Credit: Colette Guariglia/USFWS

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
March 2012

Photo: Noah Kahn/USFWS

Least Sandpiper Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

Least Sandpiper Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Getting a little crowded in there? Eastern phoebes lay up to 6 eggs in a nest with inside dimensions of about 2.5 inches wide and 2 inches deep!

Video by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

A green heron on the Wildlife Loop at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

Marsh Wren, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

12 June 2015

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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A Northern Pintail duck looks spectacular in the late afternoon sun at the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Category: Bird Life

Photo Credit: E. Owen

Missisquoi NWR protects one of the largest great blue heron rookeries on Lake Champlain, Vermont.

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This group of greater sage-grouse was selectively picking the flowerheads off of Wyoming big sagebrush as they fed their way to a night roost. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

This group of greater sage-grouse was selectively picking the flowerheads off of Wyoming big sagebrush as they fed their way to a night roost. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge has diverse and productive animal communities.

Photo credit: USFWS

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The waterfowl are really moving in at the hatchery! Here is a sequence of pictures that captured a redhead drake preparing to land on our bass pond.

Photo Credit: Spencer Neuharth / USFWS

Northern Saw-whet Owl at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Bri Rudinsky/USFWS

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A greater sage-grouse male struts at a lek (dancing or mating ground) near Bridgeport, CA to attract a mate.

In the summer of 2012, USFWS Region 6 interns visited the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (NBFFCC) in Colorado to learn how the program reintroduces the endangered Black-footed ferret

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Two young kits peek out from their burrow. Black-footed ferrets are one of the nation's most endangered mammals. Thanks to recovery efforts, however, their numbers are bouncing back.

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A black tern maneuvering in flight to catch a small fish. The early morning light catches its outstretched wings. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Virginia Rail, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

29 May 2015

This Upland Sandpiper was spotted near a potential FWS wetland easement acquisition.
Location Long Lake WMD, Burleigh County, North Dakota
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This willet forages along a wetland edge on the Schneider Waterfowl Production Area in Dickey County, North Dakota.

Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS

A Northwest salamander (Ambystoma gracile) darts along the ground at Cape Meares National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. (Roy W. Lowe/USFWS)

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A group of buffalo trudge across the landscape at the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS

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Did you know that belted kingfishers nest in burrows? This one was spotted at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa!

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

NH Fish and Game Department biologist Emily Burnkhurst and Boston University technician Leon Spencer apply wing band to little brown bat.

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Whoo do you see? This long-eared owl was spotted at Prairie Wetlands Learning Center in Minnesota!

Photo by David Ellis/USFWS.

This pair was spotted at Prairie Wetlands Learning Center in Fergus Falls, Minnesota just 72 hours after their return this spring. Photo by David Ellis/USFWS.

The color variation on a Canada goose gosling shows clearly on this stunning head shot.

USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Another view of the top-netted pen with costumed humans interacting with the cranes.

Photo credit: Carrie Thompson/USFWS

Lesser yellowlegs at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

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

Three trumpeter swans present a symmetrical image as they duck their heads into Flat Creek on the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Photo by Mary Ellen Urbanski for USFWS.

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Thacher Island National Wildlife Refuge, MA. Credit: Matt Poole/USFWS

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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

Long-finned Pilot Whales photographed southeast of Block Island, RI.

Credit: Bill Thompson/USFWS

During Friday's den visit, a wildlife biologist locates a collared lynx from the bed of a truck.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

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By: Danna Liurova (DRV) USFWS YAP
May 02, 2012

A Yellow-shouldered Blackbird chick. This chick has 12 days old.

A distinguishing characteristic of the wood frog is the dark mask around its eyes.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

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A male mountain bluebird checking in. He was also on guard duty, keeping an eye on several tree swallows that were interested in this prime real estate. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Can you spot the albino bat among the many Mexican free-tailed bats exiting Bracken Bat Cave?

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Hooded Merganser, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

A fox squirrel balancing on a small tree branch. Fox squirrels are larger and heavier than gray squirrels.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

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

Two eagles sit in a cottonwood tree along Flat Creek on the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS

In the summer of 2012, USFWS Region 6 interns visited the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (NBFFCC) in Colorado to learn how the program reintroduces the endangered Black-footed ferret

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In the summer of 2012, USFWS Region 6 interns visited the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (NBFFCC) in Colorado to learn how the program reintroduces the endangered Black-footed ferret

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In the summer of 2012, USFWS Region 6 interns visited the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center (NBFFCC) in Colorado to learn how the program reintroduces the endangered Black-footed ferret

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A rough-legged hawk keeps an eye on its surroundings from a post on the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

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