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

Photographer: Keenan Adams

The #mypubliclandsroadtrip moves from the Washington D.C. area down to the Gulf Coast for some behind-the-scenes science. We first visit the Lathrop Bayou in Florida where the BLM Eastern States, Sout

Credit: Bill Butcher/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.
In total, the Refuge a

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LSU Museum of Natural Science - Exhibition room with bird specimen

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Tagged and released. Photo by Ariel Kallenbach/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

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One of the endangered species poster on the exhibition.

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Lynda Bird Johnson in the Oval Office

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A Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) puffs its feathers on this cold and snowy day in April. Photo: David Restivo, NPS

Male greater sage-grouse struts for female at lek (dancing or mating grounds) near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

Common Gallinule at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

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

The effort is a collaboration between American Bird Conservancy, Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Pacific Rim Conservation, State of Hawaiʻi Departmen

These birds are usually easy to find in winter toward the end of Bayside Drive at Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas

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Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

USFWS personnel ringing a red knot (Calidris canutus)

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

Credit: James Weliver/USFWS

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

Red-winged blackbird at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) on teddybear cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii), Joshua Tree National Park. NPS/Brad Sutton

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

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, MD

Photo: Bill Buchanan, USFWS

Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Siana Cup attribted to the Griffin Bird Painter, HAA

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Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Original caption: "No. 28. Side view of nest of Blue-gray Gnatcatcher."

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

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Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

09 June 2013

Cactus Wren (Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus) on teddybear cholla (Cylindropuntia bigelovii), Joshua Tree National Park. NPS/Brad Sutton

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Around the world Osprey are also known as fish hawks, sea hawks, river hawks & even fish eagle. It's not uncommon to see them flying with their fish dinner dangling in their talons. Their wingspan

The distinctive plumage of a soaring rough-legged hawk over Seedskadee NWR. They are one of the few Buteos that will routinely hover in place while hunting. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher public domain from USFWS

Four American White Pelicans on the water with two of them preening their feathers. Entrant in Bear River Refuge 2014 photo contest in animal behavior category.

Photo Credit: Jerry Whetstone / USFWS

STILT BIRDS LIVE PROTECTED IN KANAHE POND, IN A CONSERVATION DISTRICT SURROUNDED BY AN URBAN AREA. THE POND WAS MADE MORE THAN 200 YEARS AGO BY KING KANEHAMEHA THE GREAT AS A ROYAL FISH POND. THE STIL

A Florida scrub jay perches in a tree in an area called Wilson's Corner in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (MINWR) near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The bird is one of more than

A hungry Little Blue Heron wades in Halifax River near Daytona Beach.

Credit: Rosie Walunas/USFWS

Photographed at Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Fred Yost/USFWS

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

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse strut at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse strut at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

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 at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Common Gallinule, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

13 June 2014

Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus sanctijohannis, Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico, USA

Marsh Wren Great Meadows NWR, Concord, MA

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

18 May 2012

A Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) perched on a branch. Photo taken with an Olympus E-5 in Sarasota County, FL, USA.Cropping and post-processing performed with Adobe Lightroom.

Photo of the Week - 7/30/12

Snowy egret photographed at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum in Philadelphia, PA.

Credit: Ron Holmes/USFWS

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

Credit: Steve Brooks

Yesterday we shared a story of a Superb Owl loss; today we have a win. In Acadia National Park, models suggest that our changing climate will reduce habitat for some bird species, but expand it for ot

A Northern harrier hovers above a flock of red-winged blackbirds burrowed into the cattails. Northern harriers, previously called marsh hawks, are birds of the wind. On breezy days, they soar, glide

Song Sparrows walk or hop on the ground and flit or hop through branches, grass, and weeds. Here, a banded sparrow makes its way through some shallow water on the National Elk Refuge.

USFWS / Ann Hou

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Male greater sage-grouse struts at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

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 at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

Virginia rail at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica feigning injury at nest, Teshekpuk Lake, North Slope of Alaska.

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,

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,

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,

A Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) searching for food in the tall grass.Photo taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50 in Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA.

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 common moorhen swims near the edge of the turn basin in Launch Complex 39 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The turn basin provides a haven for birds and other wildlife during the mild wint

A Great Egret, Casmerodius albus, preens in a tree on an island in Tampa Bay. Great Egrets are another species of bird that become entangled in discarded fishing line in their roosting habitat. Tampa

These godwits (the first photographed of the season in the Kulm Wetland Management District) were along Highway 11 in McIntosh County. Hudsonian Godwits can be seen migrating through North Dakota on t

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Female Peregrine Falcon photographed at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Ken Sturm/USFWS

Four Toxostoma rufum (Brown Thrasher) eggs.

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

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 strut at lek (dancing or mating grounds) to attract females near Bodie, California. (Jeannie Stafford/USFS)

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