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

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

29 May 2015

Flock of gulls.
October 13, 2012 - Savannah, GA
Refuge Week celebration at Wassaw NWR.

photo by Garry Tucker, USFWS

Photo of the Week - 06/15/2010

Friday's litter of lynx kittens were more than pleased to see the team leave their den.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Are we there yet?

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Green-winged teal on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

This painted turtle was laying eggs at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

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At Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge.
Photo: Garry Tucker, USFWS

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This trumpeter swan cob (male) was keeping guard, while the pen (female) fed with her cygnets on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Brown pelican balance on boom at Mangrove Island (Bird Island 2) Aug 8, 2010 by Tom MacKenzie 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: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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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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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 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.

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

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

Lesser yellowlegs at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

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

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

Our second table at the SAVE THE FROG DAY event.

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.

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

Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge/USFWS

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

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

Photo of the Week - 12/19/2011

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

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

08 June 2014

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.

A bald eagle feeding newly hatched eaglets on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Hey what are we having for breakfast? Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

American White Pelican nest in Lake Bowdoin on various islands at Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge in Montana. The favorite island by the pelicans is Woody Island.

Credit: USFWS

A green heron on the Wildlife Loop at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

The Great Basin collared lizard (Crotaphytus Bicinctores) is found throughout much of the western U.S. The species occurs in the western half of Utah in the Great Basin in dry, rocky areas with little

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Check out these distinctive ducks! These northern shovelers were spotted taking a break at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa.

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

A white-tailed deer backlit by the rising sun at Lacreek NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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The color of this frog varies from green to gray. They are also known as the "meadow frog."

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

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At Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
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Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

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

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Credit: Victoria Lima/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.

Wilson's phalarope at Mills Lake in Northwest Territories.

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

Black Skimmer at Belle Pass, La. by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS during a search a rescue mission July 11, 2010 5351

Atlantic Puffins and Common Murres at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

Apparently the rules don't apply to this American kestrel, sitting atop a No Hunting Zone sign with a decapitated mouse clutched in its talons. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Black tern photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Snow geese take flight over Tom's Cove at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge / Assateague Island National Seashore.

Credit: Emma Kerr/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

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