Herons, Egrets and Ibis

From Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex:

Saturday at the Salt Ponds: Herons, egrets and ibis often congregate together at shallow inland wetlands in National Key Deer Refuge. You'll even see them following each other in hopes that someone will scare up a fish or shrimp that the other can quickly grab with their beak. Sometimes there are arguments, but often there is plenty for everyone. 

Photo: Kristie Killam/USFWS 




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A Fish Vacuum Cleaner!

From USFWS Fisheries:

A Fish Vacuum Cleaner! The pallid sturgeon, an ancient species that has existed since the age of the dinosaurs, has a toothless mouth underneath its snout for siphoning food off of the river bottom. Listed as an endangered species. Some individuals may live for 50 years. More: bit.ly/2j8lzfP

Soaring Northern Harrier

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

A soaring northern harrier over Seedskadee NWR. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS

Raccoon on the Edge of a Frozen Wetland

From Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge:

Raccoon on the edge of a frozen wetland on the Louisa Division

Jessica Bolser/USFWS 

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1-04-17 

Teaching Grizzlies to Den is No Easy Task

Black bears in the Southeast

From USFWS Southeast Region:

Rise and grind!

Black bears in the Southeast don't hibernate in the winter, but they do slow down. Torpor is a sluggish state the bears go into where their metabolism reduces and they move around less and sleep more. (Photo: Jackie Orsulak

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Barred Owl

From Necedah National Wildlife Refuge:

Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all? Listen for the barred owl’s questions one of these long winter nights! https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/sounds

Photo: Barred Owl courtesy of Ken Mattison/ Creative Commons httpsflic.krpe6gLqC 




1-04-17 

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