Shout out to our moms! Thanks for being so patient with us – and for tolerating us when we were being annoying.

Because California condors lay 1 egg per year, this chick is her parents' sole focus until her first flight at 7 months old!

📷Cornell Lab of Ornithology/USFWS

⚠️HELP FIND WHO MUTILATED A MANATEE: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating who carved the word 'Trump' on a Florida manatee. USFWS is looking for any information: cal Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation hotline at 888-404-3922. chronicleonline.com/news/local/fed…

Flashy and purple? Hot moves and killer vocals? It's the Costa's hummingbird. The male Costa's shows a female he's got the look by flying loops around her and then performing a series of dives while singing a high pitched whistling song.

Photo: courtesy James N Stuart

If you're dead inside, go outside. Whether you're taking a walk in a park or hiking in the wilderness, spending time in nature can improve mental health and cognition. Where is your favorite place to spend time outside? Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.

When Monday you meets Friday you.

Yellow-headed blackbirds can be easily identified because they're blackbirds with yellow heads. Watch for them around prairie wetlands, where they may or may not be staring into waters as they contemplate how they got here.

📷 Mike Budd/USFWS

Don't listen to the 'fashion experts,' you go ahead and wear that camo outfit to the beach. Channel your inner-piping plover. 🧵

Important announcement: We're designating the northern cardinal as the best holiday season bird. It just makes sense and we won't be taking any questions at this time. Thank you.

BARKING NEWS and BREAKING NEWS

The Red Wolf Recovery Program recently announced the birth of a wild litter of red wolf pups!

A lot of y'all who said I couldn't fit this whole starfish in my mouth are real quiet these days.

New game: Find the mountain lion challenge.

The rules are simple. Find the mountain lion in this picture.

Happy Mother's Day! Today we appreciate all moms, but give a specific shoutout to wolf spider moms who carry around dozens of baby spiders until they get big enough to venture out on their own.

📷 Megan Seymour/USFWS

NEW: The exchange of gifts between the Trump White House and foreign governments was a mess. Among many issues: Saudis gave Trump WH white tiger and cheetah furs that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement has now discovered were fakes that had been dyed. nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/…

Happy #MigrationMonday ! How did you celebrate #WorldMigratoryBirdDay over the weekend?
Which birds did you see? There are another 340 million birds predicted to migrate through North America this evening!🐦 #LightsOut forBirdsatNight #DimtheLights #LightsOut #BirdMigration

Today we are taking action to further safeguard migratory birds across North America by conserving and restoring thousands of acres of the wetland habitat they rely on. I’m grateful to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission for leading us in the important work.

The mouth of an Arctic lamprey

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[📷 Randy Brown, USFWS]

The hognose snake gets its name from its upturned snout. This snake will act tough when feeling threatened, flattening its neck and hissing, similar to a cobra! They will not bite in self-defense but will sometimes play dead!

📷 Courtney Celley/USFWS

Did you know?

Excited President Biden announced June as #GreatOutdoorsMonth . Take a weekend to explore some great Bureau of Land Management - National U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service spots

Find a healthy snack to latch on to, like a crab on a coconut.

Hermit crabs on Rose Atoll Marine National Monument are known to scavenge across the two tiny islands for dead animals, bird eggs, and yes, coconut.

USFWS photo: Pete Leary