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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

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

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

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

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.

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

The name ermine is often used for the long-tailed weasel in its pure white winter coat. Despite their small size and cute appearance, they are very aggressive carnivores.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, N

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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 sits on a post on the National Elk Refuge. A common sight in open areas of the American West, Mountain Bluebirds are recognizable by their brilliant blue color.

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Young mountain bluebirds on Seedskadee NWR that have just fledged. One is stretching a wing and flashing the blue. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

BCI staff Jim Kennedy takes photo of Mexican free-tailed bats emerging from Bracken Bat Cave

credit: USFWS/Ann Froschauer

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

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Common loon at Horn River, North West Territories.

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

A family group of three cygnets and two adults at Seedskadee NWR. The cygnets gray feathers will be replaced by white feathers during their next molt.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A snow goose stopped by the National Elk Refuge during its spring migration. During spring and fall, the geese will stop over in open habitats along four major North American flyways.

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One of the first tasks in spring for a white-tailed prairie dog is to repair tunnels and entrance holes that have been neglected during the winters slumber. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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The characteristic red and yellow shoulder patches can barely be seen on this Red-winged Blackbird in the wetlands outside of the visitor center.

USFWS / BJ Baker, National Elk Refuge volunteer

A great blue heron off the Wildlife Loop at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Emma Kerr/USFWS

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

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

These common, vocal birds are usually easy to find by call or sight at Santa Ana, often near one of the refuge wetlands.

Photo credit: Marvin DeJong/USFWS

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

A bald eagle bringing sticks to its nest at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Credit: Bill Buchanan/USFWS

A bald eagle perched at Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by 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

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Chutes and ladders on the beach. This baby is doing great!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Baby birds like these barn swallows are fledging everywhere it seems, leaving their nests for a new phase of life!

Photo by David Ellis/USFWS

We spotted this thirteen-lined ground squirrel enjoying a snack on the lawn. When we looked at the pictures we were surprised to see it was eating a baby painted turtle!
Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS

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

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Credit: Victoria Lima/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

In preparation for starting our own reintroduced population of black-footed ferrets in Kansas, Tony Ifland of Kirwin NWR and I spent time learning capture methods in the Conata Basin of South Dakota.

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Snowy plover (Charadrius nivosus) at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge
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Photographer: Keenan Adams

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

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

The bog turtle is protected under the Endangered Species Act and has suffered heavily from poaching.
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS

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Photo of the Week - 08/24/2010

A newly hatched bog turtle in northern New Jersey with yolk sac still attached.

Credit: Rosie Walunas/USFWS

The bog turtle was federally listed as a threatened specie

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Female Peregrine Falcon photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

photo credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Mallards can frequently be seen on the ponds outside of the visitor center. Here, a group suns on the sidewalk just outside the visitor center front door.

Credit: USFWS / Mike Nordell, NER winter nat

A drake and hen mallard pair sunning on a muskrat house on Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Snow geese coming in for a landing on Snow Goose Pool, Wildlife Loop at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Emma Kerr/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.

Atlantic puffin lineup led by a razorbill at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge
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Roseate Spoonbills (Platalea ajaja) at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
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Photographer: Keenan Adams

Dolphins playing and feeding.
October 13, 2012 - Savannah, GA
Refuge Week celebration at Wassaw NWR.

photo by Garry Tucker, USFWS

Dolphins playing and feeding.
October 13, 2012 - Savannah, GA
Refuge Week celebration at Wassaw NWR.

photo by Garry Tucker, USFWS

This short-eared owl is hunting while perched on a No Hunting Zone Sign. Maybe it knows that hunting is allowed on all of Seedskadee NWR for short-eared owls.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A female mountain bluebird with a big meal. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

A Northern harrier hunts during a foggy sunrise on Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

The song of the western meadowlark is a commonly heard on Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

Photo Credit: USFWS / George Ho, Jr., a Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge volu

A juvenille white-crowned sparrow rests in a narrow-leaf cottonwood on Seedskadee NWR. White-crowned sparrows are common spring and fall migrants through the Refuge. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. Photo: Bonita Caldwell/USFWS

Yellow-rumped warblers eat mainly insects in the summer. Here, a warbler has plenty to choose from in the wetlands near the visitor center.

USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

Broad banded watersnakes have been hanging around at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri. If you like snakes, spring is the time to visit Mingo!

Photo by Anna Weyers/USFWS.

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Getting closer!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

What did you have for your Thanksgiving meal? This northern river otter was feasting on white suckers at Seedskadee NWR.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Petit Manan Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/terns/
Credit: Kayla Pelletier/USFWS

By: Danna Liurova (DRV) USFWS YAP
May 02, 2012

The Yellow-shouldered Blackbird's natural nest. They build their nests in the mangroves. Their favorite is the black mangrove.

The juvenile American alligator reigns over his enclosure on his rock perch.
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Photo Taken By: Cody Meshes, USFWS

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Visitors are treated to a rich variety of waterfowl near the visitor center. Here, a Green Winged Teal stands on the spring ice on Flat Creek.

Credit: USFWS / Ann Hough, National Elk Refuge volunteer

This Ruddy Duck was showing off to his mate who was watching from the safety of the cattails. Picture captured during inspection of this new wetland easement acquisition.
Location: Audubon WMD, Sherid

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.

This leopard frog was spotted soaking in some sunshine at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. Have you seen any lately?

Photo by Katie Goodwin/USFWS.

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During the first den visit, a litter of two Canada Lynx kittens were discovered in a den covered in thick growth behind the structure of fallen trees.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

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A mule deer buck soaking up the warming rays of the sun along a red rock wall in SW Wyoming. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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White ibis at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. Credit: Allie Stewart, USFWS.

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Bison graze on Ordway Prairie, owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy. Site has a USFWS grassland easement protecting it in perpetuity. It is situated in the center of a large block of the Prai

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Photo of the Week - 12/15/09

A group of puffins at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: USFWS

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Western Grebe swimming with an open mouthed chick on its back. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in Grebes! category.

Photo Credit: Jerry Whetstone / USFWS

A fall migrant orange-crowned warbler rests in a narrow-leaf cottonwood on Seedskadee NWR. Orange-crowned warblers are common spring and fall migrants through the Refuge. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Porcupines feed on evergreen needles and the inner bark of trees during the winter. They prefer buds, small twigs, and grasses during the summer.

Photo Credit: Gary Eslinger/USFWS

Rhinoceros auklets can walk as soon as they are hatched, are fed nightly by both parents and develop contour feathers within 4 weeks of hatching. It's quite a look. Photo credit: Roberta Swift/ USFW

This Marbled godwit stands on a fencepost brace on the Hille Waterfowl Production Area of the Kulm Wetland Management District in Dickey County, North Dakota.

Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS

Service intern Jessica Sutt examines an Appalachian elktoe mussel found in the North Toe River during the 2011 Endangered Species Day float.
Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS

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Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) at Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Credit: Keenan Adams (USFWS)

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

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

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Eastern Kingbird Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

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Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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Approximately 332,000 snow geese on a Rainwater Basin wetland during spring migration. This is an untouched photo of a privately owned wetland known as Moses Hill in Phelps Co., NE. The few remaining

Wyoming big sagebrush flowers are on the menu for this brood of greater sage-grouse. Sometimes access to the flowers is easier when they just hop onto the sagebrush to dine. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Grebes dancing in the open water of the marsh. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in Grebes! category.

Photo Credit: Jeremy Freshwater / USFWS

The Cheat Mountain Salamander has been listed by the USFWS as threatened throughout its range since 1989. This small woodland salamander makes its home in mixed spruce/hardwood forest. Improving the s

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Taking a break after a long crawl!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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

Photographer: Keenan Adams

Ferruginous hawk nestlings in the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area

You are welcome to use this photo with the following credit: Matthew Stuber, USFWS

This Swift fox (Vulpes velox) doesn't mind living in town (a black-tailed prairie dog town), where the grocery store is never far. He prefers to do his shopping at night and just might bump into his

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Nothing like a tiny frog on a tiny branch to brighten your day! This spring peeper was spotted hanging out at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.

Photo by Ariel Lepito/USFWS.

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