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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

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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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.

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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

This willet forages along a wetland edge on the Schneider Waterfowl Production Area in Dickey County, North Dakota.

Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS

Alligator National Wildlife Refuge. www.fws.gov/alligatorriver/

Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Short-eared owl perched on fence in December 2009 at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah.

Credit: C. Wirick / USFWS

Pintails in Snow Goose Pool, Wildlife Loop at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

The location and angle of the American Bittern's eyes allow it to point is head to the sky and still see what is going on front, below and all around. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A young pelican newly banded on Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota.

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Taken August 2, 2010. Photo by Michael Woodbridge, USFWS.

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A Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel in a fabric cone that is used to handle the captured animals during a fox squirrel population survey. Credit: USFWS/Ryan Hagerty

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Moose and black-billed magpies on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Video: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Students learn by doing. Here students band ducks and take wind measurements before releasing. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A ferret peers out at what will soon be its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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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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Wilson's phalarope at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

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

Black tern nest photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

A late migrant or wintering coot feeding in warm water spring discharge site (Pond 6) on Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Bob Danley / USFWS

Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), Petit Manan Island, Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge/USFWS

CBS News camera films USFWS endangered species biologist Susi von Oettingen and VT DFW wildlife technician Alyssa Bennett working up a little brown bat

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Bluebirds are a sign of spring in Jackson Hole. Here, one waits out a snow flurry on the National Elk Refuge.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo Credit: Jeannie Stafford/USFWS

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

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.

A greater sage-grouse hen sounds the alarm with a soft call and the chicks head for cover. Overhead, an eagle soars past, the cause for alarm. Video: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A white-tailed jackrabbit enjoying some Wyoming big sagebrush on Seedskadee NWR.
Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

A Heron at Merritt Island. Supported by the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. Credit: USFWS

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A pair of cardinals at Cape May National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Laura Perlick / USFWS

Category: Other Wildlife - Fan Favorite

Photo Credit: J. Barney

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Patuxent Research Refuge, MD
Photo: courtesy of Steve Noyes, USFWS

Patuxent Research Refuge is the world's first refuge for wildlife research, created by Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936. It i

Also called the "cat owl" or "hoot owl", the great horned owl has a wingspan of 3-5 feet.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

A hawk stares down from its perch in a tree at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo Credit: USFWS / John Carr

Weasel Standing up on rock near a cement roadway. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in other wildlife category.

Photo Credit: Jeremy Freshwater / USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Piping Plover chick photographed at Second Beach in Middletown, Rhode Island.

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Credit: Victoria Lima/USFWS

Piping Plover photographed at Second Beach in Middletown, Rhode Island.

Credit: Victoria Lima/USFWS

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This feathered-friend made a visit to the Bear River Migratory BIrd Refuge wetlands - an American White Pelican.

Photo: Jason St. Sauver / USFWS

A killdeer guards its nest in the gravel just off the Service Road at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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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.

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.

The burrowing owl only stands 9-11 inches tall and lives in underground burrows.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Male Least Bittern, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

29 May 2015

Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Trumpeter swans feeding in the Green River on Seedskadee NWR. The last light of the day illuminates them as the sun slips below the horizon. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Swamp Sparrow, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

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Skunk with its tail up trying to hide in vegetation. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in other wildlife category.

Photo Credit: Lloyd Bush / USFWS

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The Cooper's hawk preys on starlings, robins, blackbirds, meadowlarks, and small mammals.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

At Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
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Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

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.

North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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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.

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.

Lesser yellowlegs at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

You are free to use this photo with the following credit: Joseph Sands, 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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A red tailed hawk perched on Wyoming big sagebrush.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Hen Hooded Merganser and Chicks, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

30 May 2015

Photo of the Week - 9/10/12

First winter Herring Gull eating a crab at Beavertail State Park, Jamestown, RI.

Credit: Bill Thompson/USFWS

Least Bittern, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

12 June 2015

By: Danna Liurova (DRV) USFWS YAP
May 01, 2012

Our second table at the SAVE THE FROG DAY event.

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

A greater sage-grouse feeds on the seeds of Wyoming big sagebrush on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in SW Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

This thirteen-lined ground squirrel was attempting to blend in next to the Bloomington Visitor Center at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

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Trumpeter swans feeding in the Green River on Seedskadee NWR. The last light of the day illuminates them as the sun slips below the horizon. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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.

U.S. and Russian wildlife managers discuss polar bear management during a meeting in Nome, Alaska in the 1990s. Credit: USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A short-eared owl perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Snow geese and white- fronted geese over South Dakota cornfield in spring. Laura Hubers/USFWS

This juvenile pelican is resting by a banding station. It has a colored blue band on its leg.

Credit: Char Binstock / USFWS (2012)

Forest elephants socialize and get minerals at clearings in the rainforest like Mbeli Bai. Credit: Michelle Gadd/USFWS

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A rarely seen badger pokes its head out of its burrow one morning at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo Credit: USFWS / Cindy Souders

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North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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Clapper rail at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: USFWS

Three Lesser yellowlegs at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

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

Piping plover wintering at Turks and Caicos Islands

Photo credit: Craig Watson/USFWS

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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

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

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.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, CA
Photo: USFWS

Note: Hopper Mountain and Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuges were created as habitat for the critically endangered California condor. Captiv

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Wood frog egg mass at Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Zachary Cava/USFWS

Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge is part of the Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Greater prairie-chickens on the booming grounds, putting on their best dance moves in the largest remaining block ofin the world.
Photo taken on a private ranch in the Flint Hills of Kansas
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