USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Sandhillcrane
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Sandhill cranes in a field
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
row of pelicans
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Bird release at 2010 BP oil spill
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Sandhill Cranes at Merced Nat'l Wildlife Refuge
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Sandhill cranes
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Sandhill crane at Klamath Marsh NWR, Oregon
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Banding clapper rails before release
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Clapper rails bursting from their boxes
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Light-footed clapper rails being release on Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Terns swarm the salt ponds on San Diego Bay NWR in June
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
We're coming at you!
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Elegant tern chicks huddle with parents
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Fuzzy and fragile
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Long-billed curlew
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Long-billed curlew
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
California Least tern adult
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Great Catch!
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Feeding time!
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Female Western snowy plover
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Snowy egret, April 2011
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Egret hunts within the marsh, coexisting with human industrialization nearby
USFWS Pacific Southwest Region:
Yellow crowned night heron (Nyctanassa violacea) catching a crab