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A white-tailed jackrabbit in the sage steppe at Seedskadee NWR backlit by the setting sun. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A redhead duck runs across the water on takeoff at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Listen for the call of the yellow-headed blackbird along the shores of the refuge lakes and among the cattails.

Photo Credit: USFWS / Cindy Souders

The hatchery maintains a captive population for breeding, rearing, and refugia, and progeny from this program will be used for reintroduction efforts.

Credit: USFWS

Common tern preening at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

Healthy little brown bat in Mt. Aeolus Cave

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Piping plover chicks and eggs at Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge

Photo credit: Josh Seibel/USFWS

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The distinctive call of a Swanison's hawk, with a western meadowlark in the background.

Video: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Blanding's turtle release, Assabet River, MA.

Credit: Keith Shannon/USFWS

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Credit: USFWS; Andrew King

Biologists are measuring the area of bat clusters to estimate numbers of hibernating bats. This is an older survey technique. The new technique is to take digital photos

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Category: Creative Nature - 3rd place

Photo Credit: L. Bush

A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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Mulitple James spinymussels (Pleurobema collina) were found during a stream survey in August 2006 in southwestern Virginia. Credit: USFWS

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On the first day western meadowlarks returned to Seedskadee NWR, we had a spring snow squall to welcome their arrival.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Stay warm bunny. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Check out this beautiful barred owl spotted at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri!

Video by USFWS.

Black duck at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: USFWS

Category: Creative Nature

Photo Credit: E. Owen

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Muskrat Kit Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

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A muskrat glides past with a rose colored reflection from the waters surface at sunset on Seedskade NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Sanderlings at Stone Harbor, New Jersey.

Credit: Bill Buchanan/USFWS

Annoyed Common musk turtle at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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A pair of greater sage grouse headed to wetland habitat on Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse hen feeds in a wet meadow on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A greater sage-grouse eating Wyoming Big Sagebrush leaves and flowers. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Greater sage-grouse on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A young black-billed magpie emerges from its nest to investigate the big world. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Category: Other Wildlife - 3rd place

Photo Credit: K. Hodges

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Razorbills at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

A recently released ferret peers out at its new home.

Photo Credit: Steve Segin / USFWS

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An adult male mourning dove feeding in the sage-steppe on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Volunteer banding a young 6-week old osprey at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: USFWS

An osprey keeps watch from a wooden post on the south end of the National Elk Refuge.

USFWS / BJ Baker, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Both sexes in African elephants have ivory tusks. Elephant males have bigger, thicker tusks than females. Credit: Richard Ruggiero/USFWS

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

Greater sage-grouse on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

The first rays of sunshine shure feels good after an over night low of -24F.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) found on Malan Waterfowl Protection Area in Michigan on June 14, 2015. Photo by Jim Hudgins/USFWS

This young muskrat was repeatedly diving into shallow portions of the river and returning to shore with submerged aquatic vegetation to eat. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Onlookers watch as Mexican free-tailed bats exiting Bracken Bat Cave

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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A redhead duck runs across the water on takeoff at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Male yellow-headed blackbirds sitting on the fence next to a water hole on the Pixley Ditch at Cokeville Meadows, WY.

K. Theule/USFWS

USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

Great Lizard Cuckoo - species is only found on Puerto Rico, Cuba, and 3 Bahamian islands.

Photo Credit: Caleb Spiegel/USFWS

Jenny Sanders, with the Little Tennessee Watershed Association, holds a wavy-rayed lampmussel in her hand.
Credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS

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A cinnamon teal brood feeding on submerged aquatic vegetation and insects on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Category: Animal Behavior

Photo Credit: L. Bush

Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps on nest. Photo Credit: K. Hodges

Common Gallinule at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Common tern preening at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

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

Credit: James Weliver/USFWS

Two male northern harriers having a dispute. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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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The snowy owl is the most powerful North American owl. This owl is active during the day and night.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

Townsend's big-eared bats exiting maternity colony site (mine) near Marble, CO

photo credit: Ann Froschauer/USFWS

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Photo: American coots feeding during a foggy sunrise on Seedskadee NWR. Tom Koerner/USFWS

Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

This tufted titmouse was spotted near the Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in Iowa.

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

A trio of trumpeter swans swim upstream as the sun sets over Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, MT

Photo: Erin Clark, USFWS

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

For the second year in a row, Missisquoi NWR provides nesting habitat for bald eagles.

Credit: ken sturm/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

It is always a good idea to check your backtrail when you are a mule deer. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Eastern Shore of Virginia Refuge. Photo: USFWS

By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

Artificial nest for the breeding of Puerto Rican parrot.

May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS

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Aside from GPS and radio collars, lynx scat can alert biologists to the presence of Canada Lynx in their region of study.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

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Wood stork foraging at Pelican Island National Wildlife refuge. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

Tom Koerner/USFWS

Ann Froschauer (USFWS) with a common vampire bat at the BatsLIVE! Distance Learning Adventure dress rehearsal
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photo credit: USFS/Sandy Frost

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Category: Bird Life

Photo Credit: J. Hodges

This species of shorebirds can be seen throughout the southern Great Plains in shortgrass habitats.

Photo credit: USFWS

You never know what might surprise you! This gray fox popped out of the woods only five feet from where we were standing.

Photo by Tammy Mealman/USFWS.

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Cottontail rabbits are a frequent sight at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo Credit: John Carr / USFWS

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Nestled on an alder leaf, this spring peeper will add its voice to a chorus of croakers as the season arrives.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, OR
Nesting colony on Colony Rock at Yaquina Head

Photo: Roy W. Lowe/USFWS

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

Disney Wilderness Preserve
Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS

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The fine hair on a Canada goose gosling shines in the morning sun.

USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Now that spring has arrived, we've been seeing a lot of muskrat activity at Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa.

Photo by Jessica Bolser/USFWS.

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Little brown bat with wing band. The band will help biologists and researchers identify individual bats from year to year.

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge,
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument
January 2012

Photo: USFWS

Atlantic puffins courtship billing at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

Black-throated Sparrows are common in the sagebrush steppe ecosystem.

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

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

On the first day western meadowlarks returned to Seedskadee NWR, we had a spring snow squall to welcome their arrival.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Two cygnets, or young of the year, trumpeter swans feed among the ice floes in the Green River on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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