Piping Plover

From U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region:

Piping plovers search for food on exposed beach surfaces. They eat insects, worms, crustaceans, mollusks and even eggs and larvae of flies and beetles!

Photo: Endangered piping plover by Jim Hudgins/USFWS.

Happy Labor Day!

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region:

Happy #LaborDay to our employees, partners & volunteers. Thank you to your commitment to #wildlife& #conservation.

Restoring a Tidal Marsh

From the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System:

On Labor Day, we honor American workers' can-do spirit. Photo: Staff and volunteers restore tidal marsh at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, NJ (http://www.fws.gov/refuge/edwin_b_forsythe/). Credit: Don Freiday/USFWS

Boll's Grasshopper

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region:

Boll's Grasshopper at Cokeville Meadows. Sometimes the wildlife follows staff into the shop.

Bar-tailed Godwit

From USFWS_Migratory Birds:

A #LaborDay weekend #WorldShoreBirdsDay mashup: The Bar-tailed Godwit can fly up to 6,500 miles nonstop (each way) from Alaska to the Southern Hemisphere and back. Photo: Kristine Sowl, USFWS

World Shore Bird Day

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region:

Today is #WorldShoreBirdDay. Shorebirds, like this Lesser Yellowlegs, come in many shapes and sizes. However, they all share common characteristics besides living on wetlands or shorelines; they also have slender, probing bills and longish legs. The interesting fact about the Lesser Yellowlegs is that it runs through shallow water to catch its prey.

Tags:

#birds #animals #nature #wildlife 

Soaring white pelicans

From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region:

American white pelicans are starting to head south. These birds can be easy to identify in the air thanks to their size and impressive ability to soar mixed with slow wingbeats.

Photo: Soaring white pelicans courtesy of David Mitchell/Creative Commons.