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  • A black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) lands next to its nesting mate on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland. It breeds in colonies in large reedbeds or marshes or on islands in lakes, and nests on the ground.
    Gull_BlackHeaded_Nesting_8119.jpg
  • An osprey (Pandion haliaetus) delivers a fish to its nesting mate on an old piling off Jetty Island in Everett, Washington. Osprey find their prey by hovering over water, then plunging head and feet first. Barbed pads on their feet help them grip slippery fish.
    Osprey_Nesting_Fish_6888.jpg
  • An osprey (Pandion haliaetus) delivers a fish to its nesting mate on an old piling off Jetty Island in Everett, Washington. Osprey find their prey by hovering over water, then plunging head and feet first. Barbed pads on their feet help them grip slippery fish.
    Osprey_Nesting_Fish_6889.jpg
  • An American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) gathers nesting material and is partially reflected in a small pool in Juanita Beach Park, Kirkland, Washington.
    Crow_American_Twigs_Juanita_1863.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) grabs grass for use as nesting material while a crow chases. Bald eagles build the largest nests recorded for any animal species: as much as 8 feet (2.5 meters) wide, 13 feet (4 meters) deep, and with a weight of approximately 1 ton.
    BaldEagle_NestingMaterial_5057.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), trailed by a red-winged blackbird, gathers material to line its nest in Bow, Washington.
    Bald-Eagle_Gathering-Nesting-Supplie...jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) delivers a salmon to its mate on their nest in Puyallup, Washington.
    BaldEagles_Nesting_0285.jpg
  • A marsh wren (Cistothorus palustris) collects material for a nest it's building in the wetlands near Swan Lake, Victoria, Canada. Marsh wrens build nests that are suspended above the ground, attached to reeds. The male sometimes builds several nests, using the decoys to confuse predators.
    MarshWren_Nesting_Victoria_7595.jpg
  • Dozens of common guillemots (Uria aalge) crowd together to nest on the Látrabjarg bird cliff in western Iceland. Látrabjarg is Europe's largest bird cliff: 14 km (8.7 miles) long and standing up to 440 meters (1444 feet) above the Atlantic Ocean. Common guillemots, also known as common murres or thin-billed murres, are members of the auk family. They breed in very dense colonies, laying a single egg on a bare rocky ledge.
    Guillemots_Nesting_Latrabjarg_2505.jpg
  • A common guillemot (Uria aalge) nests on a small ledge on the Látrabjarg bird cliff in western Iceland. Látrabjarg is Europe's largest bird cliff: 14 km (8.7 miles) long and standing up to 440 meters (1444 feet) above the Atlantic Ocean. Common guillemots, also known as common murres or thin-billed murres, are members of the auk family. They breed in very dense colonies, laying a single egg on a bare rocky ledge..
    Guillemot_Nesting_Latrabjarg_2834.jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) rests on its nest in a decaying tree in Interlaken Park, Seattle, Washington. Barred owls nest in existing tree cavities or use abandoned nesting platforms.
    Owl_Barred_OnNest_Interlaken_3112.jpg
  • Numerous common eiders (Somateria mollissima) nest on the shore of Bitrufjörður, a large fjord in northwestern Iceland. Common eiders are a large sea duck that nest at the edge of the sea. Nests are lined with feathers plucked from the female eider's breast.
    Iceland_EidersNesting_Bitrufjordur_2...jpg
  • Numerous common eiders (Somateria mollissima) nest on the shore at Þorpar, Iceland, located next to a large fjord in the northwestern part of the country. Common eiders are a large sea duck that nest at the edge of the sea. Nests are lined with feathers plucked from the female eider's breast.
    Iceland_EidersNesting_Þorpar_2983.jpg
  • A killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) sits on her nest on the rocks in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Killdeer, like other plovers, nest on the ground, such as this nest, built on a gravel bar along Mud Lake. When threatened, the killdeer tries to distract predators away from the nest, often by pretending it has a broken wing.
    KIlldeer_Nesting_Malheur_5573.jpg
  • An arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) guards the two eggs in her nest in Iceland's West Fjords. The arctic tern migrates farther than any other known animal, spending the southern hemisphere summer in the ocean off Antarctica and breeding during the northern hemisphere summer near the Arctic Circle. One study found the average arctic tern flies 44,300 miles (70,900 km) per year.
    ArcticTern_Nesting_5950.jpg
  • An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) rub bills together in Látrabjarg, Iceland. Normally solitary birds, Atlantic Puffins nest each summer in large colonies. A nesting pair rubs their bills together to establish their relationship, a practice known as billing. About 60 percent of the Atlantic Puffins nest in Iceland.
    Puffins_Latrabjarg_Pair_Billing_5352.jpg
  • An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) rubs its bill on another puffin in Látrabjarg, Iceland. Normally solitary birds, Atlantic Puffins nest each summer in large colonies. A nesting pair rubs their bills together to establish their relationship, a practice known as billing. About 60 percent of the Atlantic Puffins nest in Iceland.
    Puffins_Latrabjarg_Pair_RubbingHead_...jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) calls to its chick on their nest near Puyallup, Washington. The size of the nest dwarfs both of the birds. Bald eagle nests rank as the largest nests of any bird, with a typical diameter of six feet (2 meters) and a height of three feet (1.5 meters). Some bald eagle nests way more than two tons.
    BaldEagle_ParentAndChick_Nest_Puyall...jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) sits on its nest high in a tree in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. The bald eagle builds the largest nest of any North American bird. The typical bald eagle nest weighs up to 1 ton, though one in Florida was documented to weigh 3 tons.
    BaldEagle_Nest_Sunrise_Kirkland_1431.jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is hidden while on its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. Bald eagles have the largest nests of any North American bird. One bald eagle nest in Florida was 9.5 feet (2.9 meters) wide, 20 feet (6.1 meters) deep, and weighed nearly 3 tons.
    BaldEagle_Nest_Hiding_Kirkland_9475.jpg
  • A male red-shafted northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) builds a nest in a snag in the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington. The red-shafted northern flicker, also known as the western flicker, is a type of woodpecker and builds its nest by hollowing out decaying trees. It removes most of the wood chips to form a cavity in the tree, but reserves some wood chips to insulate and cushion its eggs. Unlike other birds, it does not use anything other than the wood chips to build its nest.
    Flicker_Northern_BuildingNest_0034.jpg
  • A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) feeds the young chicks on its nest in a heron rookery in Kenmore, Washington.
    Heron_Great-Blue_Nest_Feeding-Young_...jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) sits over its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. Bald eagles typically lay from one to three eggs, though occasionally they will lay four. This particular nest produced two healthy juveniles.
    BaldEagle_Nest_6693.jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) rests on its nest in a decaying tree in Interlaken Park, Seattle, Washington. Barred owls nest in existing tree cavities or use abandoned platform nests.
    Owl_Barred_OnNest_Interlaken_2321.jpg
  • An owlet of a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) pokes its head out from its mother's feathers on their nest near Wiley Slough in the Skagit Wildlife Area near Mount Vernon, Washington.
    Owl_Great-Horned_Nest_Owlet_5803.jpg
  • A barred owl (Strix varia) rests on its nest in a decaying tree in Interlaken Park, Seattle, Washington. Barred owls nest in existing tree cavities or use abandoned platform nests.
    Owl_Barred_OnNest_Interlaken_3205.jpg
  • A pied-billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) sits on her nest among dried-out water lilies in the wetlands of the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington. Pied-billed grebes are found throughout the Americas, typically on freshwater wetlands that have aquatic plants.
    Grebe_Pied-Billed_Nest_Arboretum_330...jpg
  • Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) chicks are active in two adjacent nests as their parents look on in a rookery in Everett, Washington. For this image, two images were stacked on top of each other so that both nests would appear in focus.
    Heron_Great-Blue_Nest_Chicks_Everett...jpg
  • An owlet of a great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) snuggles up to its mother on their nest near Wiley Slough in the Skagit Wildlife Area near Mount Vernon, Washington.
    Owl_Great-Horned_Nest_Owlet_4892.jpg
  • A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) protects its young on its nest near Wiley Slough in the Skagit Wildlife Area near Mount Vernon, Washington.
    Owl_Great-Horned_Nest_Skagit_3872.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) lands on the nest in Puyallup, Washington, where its mate is watching over their young. Both the male and the female bald eagle take turns on the nest.
    BaldEagles_ParentsTakingTurnsOnNest_...jpg
  • A male red-shafted northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) looks out from the nest it is building in a snag in the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington. The red-shafted northern flicker, also known as the western flicker, is a type of woodpecker and builds its nest by hollowing out decaying trees. It removes most of the wood chips to form a cavity in the tree, but reserves some wood chips to insulate and cushion its eggs.
    Flicker_Northern_Male_LookingOutFrom...jpg
  • A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) sits at the entrance to its nest on a rocky ledge overlooking Montezuma Well in Arizona as its young owlet looks out. Montezuma Well is part of the Montezuma Castle National Monument, which protects ancient cliff dwellings built and used by the Sinagua people between 1100 and 1425 AD.
    Owl-Great-Horned_Nest_Montezuma-Well...jpg
  • An adult barred owl (Strix varia) cuddles with one of its owlets in its nest in Interlaken Park, Seattle, Washington. Barred owls typically nest in natural cavities that form in decaying trees.
    Owl_Barred_ParentOwletNest_Interlake...jpg
  • A red-throated diver (Gavia stellata) sits on its nest located on a small pond in southern Iceland. Red-throated divers breed all along the Icelandic coast by ponds, lakes, and rivers, wherever fish is plentiful.
    RedThroatedDiver_Nest_Iceland_9967.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) watches over its newly hatched eaglets in its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington.
    BaldEagle_Nest_Parent_Chicks_8279.jpg
  • An adult bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) watches the two young eaglets on its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. The young eaglets in this image are approximately two weeks old.
    BaldEagle_Nest_Parent_TwoEaglets_776...jpg
  • A killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) sits on her nest on the rocks in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. Killdeer, like other plovers, nest on the ground, such as this nest, built on a gravel bar along Mud Lake. When threatened, the killdeer tries to distract predators away from the nest, often by pretending it has a broken wing.
    KIlldeer_Nesting_Malheur_5630.jpg
  • One northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) flies off to find food while the other tends to their nest high on a cliff above Vík, Iceland.
    Fulmars_Nesting_8928.jpg
  • A Pelagic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pelagicus), also known as Baird's cormorant, collects materials for its nest near Anacortes, Washington.
    PelagicCormorant_Nesting_7902.jpg
  • An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) guards the entrance to its burrow while its mate tends to their nest in the Látrabjarg bird cliff in Iceland. Puffins nest in burrow at the top of the bird cliff, up to 440 meters (1444 feet) above the Atlantic Ocean. Látrabjarg, Europe's largest bird cliff, hosts up to 40 percent of the breeding populations of some species.
    Puffins_Latrabjarg_Burrow_3303.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) regurgitates food for its two young eaglets, which are hidden behind the wall of the nest in Kirkland, Washington. Both bald eagle parents take turns protecting and feeding the eaglets.
    BaldEagles_Nest_Parents_Regurgitate_...jpg
  • A wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) rests outside its burrow in the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai, Hawaii. Wedge-tailed shearwaters, called `Ua`u Kani in Hawaiian, nest in burrows just underneat the soil's surface and lay one egg per breeding season.
    shearwater-wedge-burrow.jpg
  • A colony of caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia, formerly Sterna caspia) nest on Rat Island located at the northern end of Puget Sound in Washington state.
    Terns_Caspian_NestingColony_RatIslan...jpg
  • Thousands of red-footed boobies (Sula sula rubripes) roost on the cliffs of the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge in Kauai, Hawaii. The refuge is popular with many different types of marine birds, though the red-footed boobies are one of the few that use it year-round. They nest in trees and shrubs and incubate their eggs with their large webbed feet.
    red-footed-boobies-many.jpg
  • A colony of caspian terns (Hydroprogne caspia, formerly Sterna caspia) nest on Rat Island located at the northern end of Puget Sound in Washington state.
    Terns_Caspian_NestingColony_RatIslan...jpg
  • A juvenile wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) looks out from its nest on a high cliff in the Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kauai, Hawaii. The Hawaiian name for the bird is `Ua`u Kani. While the wedge-tailed shearwaters are relatively common on the coasts of the Hawaiian islands, the birds are threatened by modern life and recovery efforts are underway.
    shearwater-wedge-juvenile.jpg
  • A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) flies with a large stick in its beak to build its nest in the Black River Riparian Forest in Renton, Washington.
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  • A great blue heron (Ardea herodias) flies with a large stick that it will use to build a nest in the Black River Riparian Forest in Renton, Washington.
    heron-branch-5946.jpg
  • Two northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) engage in a courtship ritual on a cliff high above Vík, Iceland.
    Fulmars_Courtship_9019.jpg
  • Two Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) share a rocky ledge in Látrabjarg, Iceland. Puffins form huge colonies in Iceland during the spring breeding season, then scatter all over the Atlantic Ocean.
    Latrabjarg_PuffinPair.jpg
  • A sea stack off Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon, is completely covered with Common Murres (Uria aalge), also known as Common Guillemots. The area hosts one of the largest colonies of breeding murres on the Oregon coast.
    Murres_Common_FlockOnSeaStack_Chapma...jpg
  • A red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) catches an insect at the entrance to its nest in Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington. Red-breasted nuthatches line the entrance to their nest with sticky pitch, which may be intended to trap insects and serve as an obstacle for predators. The nuthatches avoid the pitch by flying straight through the hole. Red-breasted nuthatches, which feed mainly on insects and spiders during the summer nesting months, found several insects trapped in the pitch surrounding the hole to its nest.
    Nuthatch_Red-Breasted_Insect_Nest_27...jpg
  • One juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) feeds at the nest while its sibling is forced to wait in the shadow for its turn. The young eagles were about two and a half months old at the time this image was taken and both had been flying for a couple weeks. One of the parents would deliver food to the nest while the young eagles were away and they would race back to the nest to feed. The dominant eagle arrived first and prevented the other juvenile from feeding.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_FeedingAtNest_878...jpg
  • Three young osprey (Pandion haliaetus) jockey for position as one of their parents delivers part of a fish to their nest in Everett, Washington. Osprey feed almost exclusively on fish.
    Osprey_Nest_Food-Delivery_Everett_47...jpg
  • A bald eagle chick (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) that is just over one month old looks over the edge of the nest. The juvenile eagle spent several more weeks flapping its wings inside the nest before it took its first flight.
    BaldEagle_Chick_NestEdge_1584.jpg
  • A young osprey (Pandion haliaetus) that recently fledged returns to join its two siblings on their nest in Everett, Washington.
    Osprey_Nest_Three-Young_Everett_4938.jpg
  • A young osprey (Pandion haliaetus) that recently fledged returns to join its two siblings on their nest in Everett, Washington.
    Osprey_Nest_Three-Young_Everett_4942.jpg
  • An empty bald eagle nest, otherwise known as an eyrie, is turned golden by the rising sun. Two juvenile bald eagles were raised in this nest. As they grew, they knocked one of the sides down (the hanging debris is visible on the left) to make more room.
    baldeagle_nest_empty_1346.jpg
  • An osprey (Pandion haliaetus) delivers a fish to its family — its mate and two young chicks — waiting on its nest on a piling in the Snohomish River in Everett, Washington.
    Osprey_Nest_Food-Delivery_3116.jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) that recently fledged looks back at its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. The young eagle, approximately 12 weeks old, made its first flight a few days before this image was captured. Down and developmental feathers are visible on the nest and branches of the tree.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_LookingAtNest_800...jpg
  • A young bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), approximately six weeks of age, begins to outgrow its nest. The bald eagle chick spent three more weeks sitting on the edge of the nest and testing its wings before it took its first flight.
    BaldEagle_Eaglet_SixWeeks_3372.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) watches over its two young eaglets on their nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. Bald eagles construct the largest nests of any North American bird, up to 8 feet (2.5) meters wide and weighing more than a ton.
    BaldEagles_Nest_Parent_TwoEaglets_13...jpg
  • Two juvenile bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), approximately seven weeks old, sit together on their nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. At this stage of development, both birds would regularly take turns testing their wings and sitting on the edge of the next, but it was another two weeks before they took their first flights.
    BaldEagle_Eaglets_Nest_Together_3567.jpg
  • A bald eagle chick (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) that is about one month old approaches its parent on their nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington.
    BaldEagles_Parent_Chick_Nest_0598.jpg
  • Two bald eagle chicks (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), approximately one month of age, seem to hide on the nest as their parent watches over them.
    BaldEagles_Chicks_Parent_Nest_0700.jpg
  • Two bald eagle chicks, estimated to be about a week and a half old, share a nest. The eaglets are in the process of replacing their natal down with thermal down, a process that begins at about 10 days of age. They are hatched with natal down, a light-colored down that has little insulating ability. After its replaced with thermal down, which occurs at about 15 days of age, the eaglets are able to regulate their body temperature on their own.
    BaldEagle_Chicks_NatalDown_9652.jpg
  • Water boils out of a small spring on the Birds Nest Terrace in the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley near Rotorua, New Zealand. The terrace is part of a hydrothermal system in 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera. Waimangu means 'black water' in Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. The area was given that name because its largest geyser erupted water that was filled with mud and rocks.
    NZ_Waimangu_BirdsNestTerrace_9002.jpg
  • Two juvenile bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) sit together on their nest in Puyallup, Washington. While young bald eagles are nearly as big as their parents by the time they are two months old, they do not develop their distinctive white heads until they are four or five years old.
    BaldEagles_JuvenilesOnNest_Puyallup_...jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) tests its wings from the nest while another eaglet looks on. The eaglets are five to six weeks old in this image and will not fly for another three weeks.
    BaldEagle_Chicks_TestingWings_3284.jpg
  • A bald eagle chick (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) that is just over one month old tests its wings while sitting on the nest. It spent several more weeks flapping its wings on the nest, standing at the edge of the nest, and climbing onto branches before it made its first flight.
    BaldEagle_Chick_TestingWings_1561.jpg
  • A red-shafted northern flicker (Colaptes auratus cafer) feeds its young in its nest in the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, Washington. Northern flickers primarily feed on insects; ants make up nearly half their diet. They feed their young by regurgitation. Juvenile flickers typically leave the nest 25 to 28 days after they hatch.
    Flicker_Northern_FeedingYoung_3034.jpg
  • A tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) feeds its young chick by depositing insects directly into its mouth at their nest in a snag in the Skagit Wildlife Area in Skagit County, Washington.
    Swallow-Tree_Feeding-Young_Nest_Skag...jpg
  • A tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) feeds its young chick by depositing insects directly into its mouth at their nest in a snag in the Skagit Wildlife Area in Skagit County, Washington.
    Swallow-Tree_Feeding-Young_Nest_Skag...jpg
  • A tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) feeds its young chick by depositing insects directly into its mouth at their nest in a snag in the Skagit Wildlife Area in Skagit County, Washington.
    Swallow-Tree_Feeding-Young_Nest_Skag...jpg
  • A young Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) rests on its mother's back on its nest in the Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, Washington.
    Grebe_PiedBilled_MotherChickNest_649...jpg
  • A young bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), approximately four weeks old, looks out from its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington.
    BaldEagle_Eaglet_FourWeeks_0404.jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), approximately seven weeks old, adjusts its flight feathers from the edge of its nest. Less than two weeks later, this eaglet made its first flight.
    BaldEagle_Eaglet_AdjustFeathers_3975.jpg
  • A bald eagle chick (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), estimated to be about 10 days old, flaps one of its wings in its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. Eaglets are hatched with a coat of light-colored natal down, which has little insulating ability. After 10 days, the natal down begins to be replaced by thermal down. That transition is beginning to take place with this chick. Its wings and chest are covered with thermal down; its head and back are still covered with natal down. The change is typically complete by age 15 days, when the eaglets are able to regulate their body temperature on their own.
    BaldEagle_Chick_NatalDown_9544.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) fledgling prepares for its first flight by sitting at the end of its nest. Earlier, the eaglet tested its wings. Some of its down is visible, stuck in the branch behind its head.
    BaldEagle_Fledgling_3886.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) rests at the top of a tree in the middle of a great blue heron rookery in Kenmore, Washington.
    Heron_Rookery_Bald-Eagle_Kenmore_560...jpg
  • Flight feathers begin to grow on the back of a juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Feathers begin to grow on bald eagle chicks by the time they are 27 days old. The dark feathers grow in tracts, starting with their head and back.
    BaldEagle_Chick_FeatherDevelopment_9...jpg
  • Three bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) rest on the beach of Protection Island in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island mainly covered with grass and low brush. The island, which also has high sandy bluffs, serves as a nesting ground for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area. Bald eagles prey on those seabirds and their young.
    BaldEagles_Beach_ProtectionIsland_81...jpg
  • A pair of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) hunt on the cliffs of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island mainly covered with grass and low brush. The island, which also has high sandy bluffs, serves as a nesting ground for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area. Bald eagles prey on those seabirds and their young.
    BaldEagles_Hunting_ProtectionIsland_...jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) rests on driftwood that washed up on the beach of the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island mainly covered with grass and low brush. The island, which also has high sandy bluffs, serves as a nesting ground for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area. Bald eagles prey on those seabirds and their young.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_Driftwood_Protect...jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) rests on driftwood on Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington as a glaucous gull flies by. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island mainly covered with grass and low brush. The island, which also has high sandy bluffs, serves as a nesting ground for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area. Bald eagles prey on those seabirds and their young.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_ProtectionIsland_...jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) rests on driftwood that washed up on the beach of the Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island mainly covered with grass and low brush. The island, which also has high sandy bluffs, serves as a nesting ground for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area. Bald eagles prey on those seabirds and their young.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_Driftwood_Protect...jpg
  • A pair of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) stand guard next to a National Wildlife Refuge sign on Protection Island near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island mainly covered with grass and low brush. The island, which also has high sandy bluffs, serves as a nesting ground for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_RefugeSign_Eagle...jpg
  • A flock of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) take flight in wetlands near the town of Höfn, Iceland. Barnacle geese typically use Iceland as a migratory stop as they travel between their wintering grounds in Great Britain and their breeding grounds in Greeland, although growing numbers of the birds are now nesting in Iceland as well.
    Geese-Barnacle_Flock_Hofn-Iceland_37...jpg
  • An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) flies over the northern tip of Grímsey, the northernmost point in Iceland. The northern tip of the island lies within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Ocean is visible in the background. The towering cliffs of Grímsey are used by thousands of nesting birds in the summer, including Atlantic puffins, gulls and fulmars.
    Iceland_Grimsey_NorthernTip_8033.jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) sits on a branch over its nest. Nearly eight weeks old, this eaglet repeatedly climbed to this branch and then jumped down and glided into the nest, several feet below. A little over one week later, this eaglet made its first flight.
    BaldEagle_Eaglet_BranchAboveNest_434...jpg
  • A bald eagle fledgling (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) takes one of its first flights away from its nest, located in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington.
    BaldEagle_Fledgling_FlyingAway_8309.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) fledgling flies from its nest. At the time of this image, the juvenile eagle was less than three months old and had been flying for about two weeks.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_Flying_9514.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flies a fish up to its nest in Heritage Park, Kirkland, Washington. Bald eagles nest in the park each year, fishing in neighboring Lake Washington to feed their chicks.
    BaldEagle_Fish_Kirkland_1369.jpg
  • A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) hunts for food on ths cliffs of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County, Washington. Nearly three-quarters of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area use Protection Island and they are a target for bald eagles.
    BaldEagle_Hunting_ProtectionIsland_6...jpg
  • A juvenile bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) gets ready for its first flight by testing its wings and hopping from branch to branch about 20 feet from its nest in a tall Douglas Fir tree in Kirkland, Washington. At the time of this image, the young eagle was about 10 weeks old.
    BaldEagle_Juvenile_Branching_6433.jpg
  • Two fulmars fly between the southern coast of Iceland and the Dyrhólaey peninsula. The peninsula features several sea arches, resulting its name, which means "the island with the hill door." During the early summer, thousands of fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) nest on rocky cliffs throughout Iceland.
    Iceland_Dyrholaey_Fulmars_7525.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5316.jpg
  • A large group of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), including many young pups, rest on the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_HarborSeals_5437.jpg
  • Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) share the beach of Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge near Port Townsend, Washington. Protection Island, located at the mouth of Discovery Bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is a 364-acre island that serves as pupping grounds for hundreds of harbor seals as well as a summer home for 72 percent of the seabirds that nest in the Puget Sound area.
    WA_ProtectionIsland_SealsAndGulls_52...jpg
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