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In an ongoing effort to track bog turtle populations, biologists recently spent several days visiting southern Appalachian bogs in western North Carolina, searching for the rare turtles. Measurements

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Brown pelicans flying near Queen Bess Island, Louisiana, USA, during BP oil spill response.

Brown Pelicans feeding during BP oil spill response off Queen Bess Island, Louisiana, USA.

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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lue-winged Teals are small dabbling ducks that are occasionally found in the shallow ponds and wetlands of our local refuges. During migration some of them fly all the way to South America!

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though the initial waves have washed the carapace clean, this female loggerhead is on her way out into the Atlantic Ocean to mate again. She weighs close to

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's a long haul, but every step is invaluable to the hatchling's survival. The hatchlings imprint the beach as they walk using the magnetic field to return 35 yea

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Resting in the shade before stretching his flippers, this baby needs to be alert to bypass all of the obstacles that await him on his journey to adulthood.

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Wildlife Service employee Rachael Volsteadt looks over the automated aerial Brown Tree Snake bait delivery system attaches to a helicopter and allows for the dispersal of up to four bait cartridges pe

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Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley, Hawk, near Florence, MT. US Forest Service photo, by Roger Peterson

Colored leg bands and a radio transmitter designed to indicate movement on the legs of a juvenile Whooping Crane. The transmitter will allow biologists to locate it using a special receiver. Wheeler N

Image title: Aleutian cackling goose survey crew
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US Navy 090704-N-2757S-096 Sailors from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 move a bird cage to a new location at the Native Animal Rehabilitation Centre during a community service p

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Scientific name: Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri
Common name Mona Island Iguana
Common name Spanish: Iguana de Mona
Status: Threatened
Listed on February 3, 1978
Location: Puerto Rico
Photo by Jan Pa

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Reddish egrets and juveniles gather on the beach to feed in the shallow waves.

Credit: USFWS/Molly Martin

Jo Santiago, a wildlife biologist and a raptor rehabilitation specialist, handles Freedom, a bald eagle during a presentation in Washington D.C., April 24, 2019. (Forest Service photo by Tanya Flores)

Glue is applied to a part of the radio transmitter that will surround another part after it is placed on the leg of a Whooping Crane. Two colored leg bands are already on the other leg. These help to

In an ongoing effort to track bog turtle populations, biologists recently spent several days visiting southern Appalachian bogs in western North Carolina, searching for the rare turtles. Measurements

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This Loggerhead baby is taking his time to adjust to his new surroundings and strengthen his muscles before his long journey to the middle of the Atlantic. Once in

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Good morning! The hatchlings use the limited space in the "neck" of the lighbulb shaped nest and each others' backs to squeeze and climb out of the chamber.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The gentle warmth of the early morning sand comforts a young Loggerhead emerging from the nest, allowing the baby to rest and assess it's environment. At any give

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A Key Deer in an area burned the previous day in a prescribed fire at National Key Deer NWR Photo by Josh O'Connor - USFWS

November 5, 2010 - Natchitoches, LA
This red ear slider turtle and American alligator are having a staring contest. There is a third turtle which is almost not visible behind the alligator.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though most nests hatch at night to avoid mammalian predators, these little guys seem to camouflage well enough in the wrack line. Nevertheless, this place is

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Scientific name: Trichechus manatus
Common name Spanish: Manatí antillano
Status: Endangered
Listed on March 11, 1967 and December 2, 1970
Photo by Mike Morel
Location: Puerto Rico

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A Mountain Heritage High School Eco-Club member holds up an Appalachian elktoe found in the North Toe River during the 2011 Endangered Species Day float.
Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS

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Kary Schlick, Inyo National Forest Wildlife Biologist, and volunteer, Rowan Baker, UCLA Science and International Development, glass the flight path as sage-grouse disperse from the lek, Long Valley,

July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
She's crawled. She's dug. She's laid. She's covered. Now she returns to the warm Atlantic waters to breed again so she can lay more nests. A Loggerhead typically

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Contemplating his next move. He is so tiny compared to the little holes in the sand and the fine lines left by the last waves.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Scientific name: Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri
Common name Mona Island Iguana
Common name Spanish: Iguana de Mona
Status: Threatened
Listed on February 3, 1978
Location: Puerto Rico
Photo by Mike M

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Endangered freshwater mussels in the Clinch and Powell River Watersheds in Virginia. Bottom diagonal row, left to right: Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsa

Sophia, a rehabilitated turtle at the José A Rivero, Puerto Rico Zoo.
Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Common name Spanish: Peje Blanco, tortuga verde
Photo Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Photo by

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The spikes on the turtle's carapace or shell will eventually smooth out as the scutes, little "patches", grow over time.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
The mother Loggerhead cries salt water tears as she lays her eggs in the white sands on Blackbeard Island. She will never again return to check on her eggs, but m

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Baby sea turtles make their way to the sea, leaving behind a super highway in the sand. Not all babies head the same direction. Some often wander back into the du

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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Environmental journalist Mike Di Paola photographs excavation of a Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest at Fort Pickens, Gulf Islands National Seashore. Credit: Cather

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Scientifi name: Trichechus manatus
Common name manatee
Common name Spanish: manatí
Photo by Darryl Stansbury
Status: Endngered

Lislted on March 11, 1967 and December 2, 1970

July 25, 2010, Indian Pass, Florida- Willets are large shorebirds that are common along the Florida panhandle. Credit: Nicole Rankin, USFWS. www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill

Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea
Common name Spanish: Tinglar
Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS
Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands

More information: ecos.fws.gov

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Note: this is indicated as a big brown bat if you search in the en:United States Fish and Wildlife Service website at [1] using the keywords "big brown bat".
In a FWS newsletter, however, this is de

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December-6-2011, Wood duck boxes can be found in marshes all along the island. Photo taken by Zach Brooker, USFWS. www.fws.gov/charleston

Scientific name: Chelonia mydasCommon name Spanish: Peje blanco, tortuga verde
Photo: Caroline S. Rogers, USGSStatus: Threatened, Listed on July 28, 1978
For more information: ecos.fws.gov/speciesProf

Brown pelicans perch on boom at Queen Bess Island, Louisiana, duirng BP oil spill response.

July 11, 2010 Destin, FL - A Northern Gannet with no visible oil was rescued near Destin Harbor, FL. The gannet could not fly but was not visibly oiled. Photo by USFWS. www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill

July 24, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
It's all downhill from here as this juvenile turtle maneuvers over the cage that his doting biological interns placed over his nest to protect them from predators

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August 2010 - Mobile Bay Alabama. A young pelican balances on a hard oil boom off the shore of Gaillard Island, an island made of silt dredged from Mobile Bay. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS. w

July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Biologists excavate 89 eggs from a Kemp's ridley sea turtle nest at the National Park Service's Gulf Islands Naional Seashore near Fort Pickens. Credit: Catherin

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Flock of red knots (Calidris canutus) at sunrise at Folly Beach, South Carolina.

July 23, 2010, Panama City, FL - Brown pelicans were seen perched atop a number of structures including this piling in St. Andrews Bay. This image was taken during an aerial survey from a helicopter a

The Carolina northern flying squirrel is a cold-weather animal descendent from the northern flying squirrels pushed south by the ice sheets that covered northern latitudes during the last ice age. Whe

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This hatchling has already made it farther in life than a lot of his siblings and peers. His egg developed successfully without mutations. He has overcome the thre

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
This dawn nester on Blackbeard Island lays her eggs in the sand after "body pitting" and digging an inverted light bulb shaped nest. "Body pitting" is when the fe

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The Carolina northern flying squirrel is a cold-weather animal descendent from the northern flying squirrels pushed south by the ice sheets that covered northern latitudes during the last ice age. Whe

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
Wind them up and watch them go! Their "wind up" comes from their own yolks they absorb to power them with enough energy for the next 48 hours. They will need every las

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Greater black back gull & royal tern near Port Fourchon La. July 11, 2010. It was extremely unusuall to see the black back gull at his location at this time. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, U.S. Fish an

August 2010 - Mobile Bay Alabama. A young pelican balances on a hard oil boom off the shore of Gaillard Island, an island made of silt dredged from Mobile Bay. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS. w

Scientific name: Eritmochelys imbricata. Spanish: Carey de Concha. Status: Endangered. Listed on June 2, 1970
Photo by Caroline S. Rogers, available through NOAA

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FWS staff with two red wolf pups bred in captivity. The red wolf is an endangered species that is currently found in the wild only as experimental populations in Tennessee and North Carolina. These ca

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Image title: Rainbow trout fish salmo gairdneri
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One of two bald eagles were found dead in a field about 50 yards apart near Martinez Rd. in Thibodaux, LA. Poisoning is suspected. A GPS unit was placed near it as a size reference. Public Domain Pho

The Carolina northern flying squirrel is a cold-weather animal descendent from the northern flying squirrels pushed south by the ice sheets that covered northern latitudes during the last ice age. Whe

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July 25, 2010, Indian Pass, Florida - Gulls, terns, and brown pelicans were abundant on beaches in Indian Pass, FL. Ground crew biologists were surveying this area searching for birds in distress. Cre

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Service biologist releases a Prairie dog

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Bird watching at Baskett Slough NWR

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