This sharp-tailed grouse is lekking—dancing and singing as an invitation to mate. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 8/11/17.
A red fox in Maine’s Acadia National Park. Photo by Matthew Lambert, National Park Service. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 6/28/17.
A broadhead skink spotted at Marais des Cygnes #NationalWildlifeRefuge in #Kansas. It lives in wooded habitats & eats insects. Photo: USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 8/9/17.
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Photo of a Western tanager at Wyoming’s National Elk Refuge. Photo by Ann Hough/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 8/16/17.
North America doesn’t have lions, but we do have the “mountain lion” (a.k.a. cougar, panther or puma). Photo by Justin Shoemaker. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 8/9/17.
American avocets take flight at Utah’s Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge where wetlands provide food, shelter, space, & water. Photo by USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 8/12/17.
