Archive for the ‘Sharp-tailed Grouse’ Tag
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.
Two male northern harriers fighting over a nesting territory on the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 3/19/17.
Northern flicker on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Posted on Flickr by the US Department of the Interior; taken 4/12/17.
Sharp-tailed Grouse in North Dakota. Photo by Rick Bohn / USFWS. Taken 4/19/17 and posted on Flick by the US Department of the Interior.
American White Pelican. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/24/17.
Mountain Bluebird. Tweeted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 3/18/17.
Hooded Mergansers winter at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge. In the spring, these tiny diving ducks head for forested wetlands to nest in tree cavities. Tweeted by the Chincoteague NWR 3/19/17.
A male Red-shafted Northern flicker on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 4/17/18.
Many birds are monogamous, but Laysan Albatrosses mate for life. Young birds search for a mate with elaborate courtship dances. Once they hit breeding age, Albatrosses breed their entire lives, hatching and caring for one chick at least every other year. Pictured here is Wisdom — the oldest living, banded, wild bird — and her current mate at their nest at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Pete Leary, USFWS, from the US Department of the Interior blog.
Sharp-tailed Grouse. Photo by Rick Bohn / USFWS. Posted on Flickr by the US Department of the Interior, 4/12/17.
