Archive for the ‘Great Blue Heron’ Tag
Great Blue Heron landing in a field of bullrush from the 2016 Bear River Photo contest. Photo by Ron Welker / USFWS. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 11/30/16.
Greater sandhill crane pairs return to Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in late March and early April. They immediately begin to re-establish a nesting territory and will begin nest building/repair activities. This pair was out for a mid morning foraging stroll, looking for meadow voles, crayfish, and invertebrates. The invertebrates are found by probing the damp soils and by flipping over the cow pies left from the prescribed grazing conducted during the winter. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Posted on Flickr by the US Department of the Interior, 4/7/17.
Because of the flexibility of their diet, mountain bluebirds are able to migrate north earlier than most birds. Photo by Dave Fitzpatrick. Posted on Facebook by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/7/17.
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Five young green herons scan the sky avidly for signs of their next meal at Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama. Photo by Roy W. Lowe. From the US Fish & Wildlife website.
Black-necked stilts have the second-longest legs in proportion to their body in the bird world, exceeded only by flamingos. You can spot black-necked stilts at San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge, where this photo was taken. Photo by Rinus Baak/USFWS. From the US Fish & Wildlife website.
Photo: Paul Brooke. Yellow-crowned night heron, at the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. Photo by Paul Brooke from the US Fish & Wildlife website.
Bad hair day. A great blue heron chick tries out a punk look at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah. In migration season, millions of birds stop to rest and feed in refuge wetlands in the Great Salt Lake ecosystem. Some stick around to nest. Photo by Brian Ferguson/USFWS. From the US Fish & Wildlife website.
A worried-looking Atlantic puffin at Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge wears its fish dinner before it eats it. From the US Fish & Wildlife website.
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