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Black Brant

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Warbling Vireo

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November 2010

Credit: Steve Brooks

Wood stork at Pelican Island NWR by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS

Royal tern near Port Fourchon at Belle Pass, La. by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS July 11, 2010

Photo by Mary Ellen Urbanski for USFWS.

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

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The juvenile American alligator is placed into this transport container. He is being moved to the display pool at the Warm Springs National Fish Hatchery.
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Cody Meshes assisted the Warm Springs Fish Technology Center by cleaning the salamander tanks. These salamanders are being used in reproduction and cryopreservation trials.
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As part of their reproductive cycle, the wavy-rayed lampmussel attracts fish which nip at the mussels display, black in this case, thinking they're get a meal. Instead, the larval mussels, contained i

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Image title: * Endemic cyprinid fish at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, in southern Nevada, United States. An IUCN Critically endangered species.
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Song Sparrow

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National Eagle Repository, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Staff processing a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Dawn is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wildlife biologist at the Pacific Regional Office in Portland. She first began working with sage-grouse in 1998 and has collaborated on projects in Nevada, Ca

Brandt's Cormorant

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Great Horned Owl at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina.
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Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

Great blue heron (Ardea Herodias) at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge
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Photographer: Keenan Adams

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Alligator looking for fun. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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In a field at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
www.fws.gov/blackbayoulake/. Thank you Dendroica cerulea for identifying this bird.

Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Alligator bathing on the bank. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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Red Knot feeding on eggs of Horseshoe crabs. Mispillion Harbor, Delaware

Photo by Mary Ellen Urbanski for USFWS.

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Bell City, Louisiana: Coot Fulica americana waddling away. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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Photo: Mary Ellen Urbanski.

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

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

Canal Run Trail
November 2010

Credit: Steve Brooks

Western Toad (Anaxyrus boreas)

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John Organ of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service weighs a Canada Lynx kitten.

Credit: James Weliver / USFWS

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Gunshot red wolf found on private property north of the Town of Swanquarter, in western Hyde County, North Carolina, on Tuesday, November 19, 2013. Public domain Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv

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As part of their reproductive cycle, the wavy-rayed lampmussel attracts fish which nip at the mussels display, orange in this case, thinking they're get a meal. Instead, the larval mussels, contained

Steve Klett, Refuge Manager for Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, shows the CARE group a den made of rocks and other material for the endangered Key Largo woodrat.

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Thanks to the donation of a conservation easement by The Nature Conservancy, Mountain Bogs National Wildlife Refuge was established in April, 2015. Bog conservation partners gathered in North Carolina

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A brooding female winged mapleleaf mussel is displaying her lure for catfish, the host fish for her larvae. Catfish like to eat dead things and the mussel mimics a dead mussel to attract the host fis

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At Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
www.fws.gov/blackbayoulake/. Thanks Dendroica cerulea for identifying this bird.

Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

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

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A biologist measures the length of a portion of the leg of a juvenile Whooping Crane. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, Alabama.

Song Sparrow

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February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Moorhen hiding from the sun. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

Oiled pelican on Queen Bess Island, Louisiana, USA

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

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Brown pelican chicks on Mangrove Island by Tom MacKenzie USFWS aug 22 2010

The Black-bellied Plover is commonly found at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. This one is seen getting ready to snack on a small crab. They also feed on insects, bivalves and a variety of crustac

Male Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina.
www.fws.gov/caperomain/. Thank you to Dendroica cerulea for identifying this bird.

Photographer: Garry Tucker, US

THEODORE, Ala. – Michelle Bellizzi, a wildlife rehabilitation specialists cleans an oiled gannet at the Theodore Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center June 17, 2010. The center in Theodore is one of fo

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, GA
wilderness canoe trip, Nov. 11-13, November 2010

Credit: Steve Brooks

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

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By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAPPuerto Rican Parrot nest
The male feeding their babies after feeding the female.

By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

A couple of Puerto Rican Parrot feeding their babies.

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

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February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Alligator bathing in the sun along the bank of a levee. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens) at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

Enjoying a swim at Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge.
Photo: Garry Tucker, USFWS

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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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All sections of Surf and Wall Beaches are slated to close March 1, for the nesting season of the western Snowy Plover. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be implementing the seasonal restrictions

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

Our second table at the SAVE THE FROG DAY event.

The biologists are looking for endangered Appalachian elktoe mussels that are carrying young mussels. They’ll be taken to a hatchery run by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission where the y

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A veterinarian inspects a juvenile Whooping Crane as part of a health examination. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur, AL.

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Roseate Spoonbills looking for the next meal. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

January 15, 2011 - Natchitoches, LA
These are two baby Little Spectaclecase mussels under the microscope. They were also just harvested from their host fish earlier that morning.
Photographer: Tony

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By: Carlos Pacheco USFWS
May 01, 2012

A crested toad was available on our table for the exhibition.

Fork-tailed Storm Petrels Oceanodroma furcata feeding

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Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is one of the places Bobwhite calls home. They nest on the ground and eat a diet consisting of insects, leaves and seeds. One of their calls really does sound

Biologist Jesús Rios measuring trees as part of a Hispaniolan Parrot (Amazona ventralis) habitat evaluation on Isla Saona, Dominican Republic. Photo by Service Biologist, Tom White in December 2011.

California Sea Lion

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Sea lemon nudibranch (Anisodoris nobilis)

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arthropod animals

Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
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Photographer: Keenan Adams

At Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. The Refuge’s prime location along the Atlantic Flyway makes it a vitally important stopover for wintering waterfowl. Credit: Allie Stewart,

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Roseate Spoonbills out in the water. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Roseate Spoonbills feeding and playing. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

Facing threats from habitat loss and degradation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to add 49 species from Hawaii to the Endangered Species Act. . Photo by Andre Raine KESRP

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: The Moorhen (aka "Gallinule") waddles alone in pond. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: alligator on the bank. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

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

February 15, 2012- Bell City, Louisiana: Wood Duck Box in front of the wildlife refuge. Photo by Corey Douglas www.fws.gov/swlarefugecomplex

A juvenile Whooping Crane stretches while other move about their holding pen. These birds are the new members of a flock being established in the eastern U.S. Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Decatur

July 22, 2010 - Theodore, Alabama: An oiled laughing gull is rinsed at the Theodore Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Credit: USFWS www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/

At Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia.
Credit: USFWS/Mary Ellen Urbanski.

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January 15, 2011 - Natchitoches, LA
These are two baby Little Spectaclecase mussels under the microscope. They were also just harvested from their host fish earlier that morning.
Photographer: Tony

Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
at J.N. “Ding” Darling NWR
Credit: USFWS

Photographer: Keenan Adams

Resting on a branch at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
www.fws.gov/blackbayoulake/. Thank you Dendroica cerulea for identifying this bird.

Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

At Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. The Refuge’s prime location along the Atlantic Flyway makes it a vitally important stopover for wintering waterfowl. Credit: Allie Stewart,

Prothonotary Warbler at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
www.fws.gov/blackbayoulake/. Thank you Dendroica cerulea for identifying this bird.

Photographer: Garry Tucker, USFWS.

July 22, 2010 - Theodore, Alabama: An oiled laughing gull is rinsed at the Theodore Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Credit: USFWS www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/

Leatherbacks crawling to the sea. Tinglares arrastrandose hasta el mar

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

Photographer: Keenan Adams

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

photo by Garry Tucker, USFWS

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

A chick inside an artificial nest.

Red-legged Frog eggs

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American Bittern in Chase Prairie, along Round Top Trail.
Date: November 2010

Credit: Steve Brooks

As part of an education and outreach program, students got to see and ask questions about a live bald eagle

Photo credit: Greg Thompson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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

Photographer: Keenan Adams

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

The Puerto Rican Crested Toad (Sapo Concho).

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Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS

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By: Danna Liurova, USFWS YAP
February 22, 2012

A Puerto Rican parrot eating fruit.

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