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Common Gallinule at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Common tern preening at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
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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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Tagged endangered oval pigtoe mussel in Spring Creek, nearly Colquitt, Ga. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

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Tree Swallow at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

Photo Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

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Here's a peak into a Western Meadowlark's nest that was found on the Cornell WPA in LaMoure County, ND.

Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS

A western meadowlark, in crisp new plumage, sits on a Wyoming big sagebrush.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Silhouette of a swainson's hawk on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

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Common tern hovering at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
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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)

Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, MA
Nov. 15, 2011

Photo: Ranger Poole, USFWS

Eastern Shore of Virginia Refuge. Photo: USFWS

These blue jays were spotted hanging out at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.

Photo by Katie Goodwin/USFWS.

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 - 7/2/12

Young raccoon in crab apple tree at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia.

Credit: Bill Buchanan/USFWS

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Female Peregrine Falcon photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Category: Bird Life

Photo Credit: J. Barney

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Kirtland's Warbler Setophaga kirtlandii, Grayling, Michigan. Photo By Jim Hudgins/USFWS

A horned lark sits on a pile of frozen slush at the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Tony Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Atlantic puffins at Matinicus Rock at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
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A hen greater sage grouse and her brood head to Seedskadee NWR wetlands to spend the day.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Greater sage-grouse eating phlox on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Wyoming big sagebrush provides habitat for a number of species of sparrows. This savannah sparrow was sunning itself on sagebrush on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo of the Week - 10/6/10
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Missouri Department of Conservation biologists at a gray bat survey site.
Credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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Arctic Tern flying with fish in mouth at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

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

Credit: James Weliver/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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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Red-winged blackbird at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, MD

Photo: Bill Buchanan, USFWS

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

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

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

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)

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

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

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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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Here is a pair of young raccoon hiding out next to our sturgeon building. Sometimes it feels like there is more of these guys than fish...

Photo Credit: Spencer Neuharth / USFWS

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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.

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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.

Credit: 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)

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

Look close, one mule deer buck is watching the front while the other is watching the back. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Tree swallow at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

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Red-Breasted Nuthatch at Cape May National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Laura Perlick / USFWS

Swainson's hawk gladly uses a center pivot sprinkler system as a perch to scan the surrounding sagebrush sea for prey.

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Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, OR
Photo: Barbara Wheeler, USFWS

Originally set aside by Congress in 1908 primarily to protect migratory birds, this refuge also shelters many other kinds of wildlif

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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.

Black tern nest photographed 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

Brown pelicans at Mangrove Island near Grand Isle, La. Aug. 8, 2010 by Tom Mackenzie USFWS 8105

CMR National Wildlife Refuge was established, in part, for pronghorn antelope.

Credit: USFWS

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A great horned owl is seen perched on a log at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo Credit: USFWS

Check out this cranky visitor spotted at Neosho National Fish Hatchery in Missouri! Have you seen any snapping turtles lately?

Photo by Bruce Hallman/USFWS.

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White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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

Credit: Marvin Moriarty/USFWS

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Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides, Carrizo Plain, California. Photo Credit: Sarah Swenty/USFWS

SInce breeding began at the Saratoga Fish Hatchery in 1998 they have released 53,866 toads back into the wild. The station currently hosts 80 to 120 toads at one time.

Credit: USFWS

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