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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

Female Peregrine Falcon photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

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

Black-billed magpies quickly move in on what is left of a white-tailed jackrabbit killed by a golden eagle.

Photo: Tom Koerner/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

A Bohemian Waxwing eyes a piece of fruit from a tree outside the National Elk Refuge administrative offices.

Credit: Lori Iverson / USFWS

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

Credit: USFWS / Tony Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

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)

Greater sage-grouse eating phlox on Seedskadee NWR. 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

Two mature mule deer bucks in late summer on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/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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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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Little brown bat with white-nose syndrome in Greeley Mine, Vermont, March 26, 2009

Credit: Marvin Moriarty/USFWS

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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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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

BCI educator Dianne Odegard shows visitor a Mexican free-tailed bat

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Western fence lizards range from central Idaho, south through Nevada, and west to the Pacific Coast.

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

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

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

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

Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

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

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

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Atlantic puffins at Matinicus Rock at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

A golden eagle eating a white-tailed jackrabbit on Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A collared wolf watches near a group of wintering elk.

Credit: USFWS / Tony and Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteers

Charles M. Russell NWR staff track lions with the help of hounds. Credit: USFWS

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A Brewer's sparrow perched on a Wyoming big sagebrush at Seedskadee NWR in Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Four condors await medical evaluation at the condor capture facility at Hopper Mountain NWR. Jon Myatt/USFWS

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Photo Credit: J. Hodges

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A rough-legged hawk perches on Wyoming big sagebrush at Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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

A greater sage-grouse walks to a night roost in sage-steppe habitat on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Greater sage-grouse eating Wyoming big sagebrush leaves. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Mexican free-tailed bats exiting Bracken Bat Cave

photo credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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Female Wood Turtle with Radio Transmitter at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/USFWS

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Very old adult Wood turtle Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Colin Osborn/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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Elephants "know" and recognize one another and go through elaborate greetings when they encounter other elephants they know. Credit: Richard Ruggiero/USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A mule deer buck in riparian habitat along the Green River on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Harris's Hawks are common at Santa Ana, and often permit photographers to get relatively close.

Photo credit: Marvin DeJong/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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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Two male sage grouse catch the early morning sun on a ridge at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photographed at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Bri Rudinsky/USFWS

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Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

Wildlife Refuge Specialists Pember shows Alex how to identify his Green-winged teal by looking at the wing. Photo by Mary Stefanski/USFWS.

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

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White faced ibis on Seedskadee NWR. Photo Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Bell's Vireo (Vireo bellii) public domain from USFWS

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

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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

Photo Credit: USFWS

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

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American black ducks in the winter at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (MA).

Credit: USFWS

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

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

Cackling Geese near Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge. You are free to use this photo with the following credit: Joseph Sands, USFWS

Tree swallow at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

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

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

Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

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

A sika elk off the Wildlife Loop at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

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

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

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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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

Common tern hovering at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
credit: USFWS

Least Bittern, Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

04 May 2013

Least Bittern, Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

04 May 2013

Virginia rail at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Male elephants are shot by trophy hunters legally in some parts of Africa. Researchers are monitoring elephant behavior in and around hunting areas. Credit: Michelle Gadd/USFWS

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