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An adult osprey brings a fish to its nestlings at Poplar Island, Maryland. USGS researchers placed game cameras in some osprey nests to identify the types of fish that Chesapeake Bay ospreys are eating, then tested those fish species for toxic chemicals.

Bradley Compton, Research Associate with the Massachusetts CRU, holding a Blanding's turtle, a threatened species in Massachusetts.

Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife research unit students (L to R) Colleen Olfenbuttel (MS), Johnny Wills (MS), and Sybille Klenzendorf (Ph.D.) weigh and measure a black bear cub at a den site in western Virginia.

Red-shouldered hawk capture. Recently graduated MS student Carlene Henneman working on MN Unit Leader David Anderson’s Red-shouldered hawk project.

Ted Simons, Assistant Leader-NC Unit, Arielle Waldstein, MS Student-NC Unit, and Allan O'Connell-Research Wildlife Biologist-USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, with nine raccoons trapped at Cape Lookout National Seashore as part of a study there to evaluate the consequences of predator removal for endangered species management.

Emerald Lake in the High Sierras of Sequoia National Park. Ph.D. Student Luke Ackerman, Ph.D. Student Jennifer Ramsay, and Oregon-Fish Unit Leader Carl Schreck, sampling blood and tissues from trout and taking whole fish for determination of possible effects of airborne contaminants. 

Katlyn Steinkerchner (undergraduate research technician for PA Coop Unit) is banding a Henslow’s sparrow.

Michael Jones, Ph.D. candidate in the Massachusetts unit, tracking the movements of wood turtles in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.

Lincoln Parrett, of the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, restrains a female caribou as her calf looks on.

Iowa Unit Graduate student Chris Penne listens for signals from carp with surgically implanted radio transmitters in Clear Lake. Chris studied carp aggregation to assist in planning for carp reduction by the DNR.

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit - Nathan Gosch (right; master's student) utilizes a gastroscope to verify that all stomach contents were recovered from a flathead catfish held by Jeff Stittle (undergraduate).

Research on sika and white-tailed deer on Assateague Island National Seashore is investigating movements and habitat partitioning between these two ungulate species. Photo is of Sonja Christensen (M.S. student in Wildlife and Fisheries Science at Penn State University) with a sika deer.

Tennessee Cooperative Fish and Widlife Research Unit students John Damer and Casey Bergthold sampling elusive brook trout in the Watauga River in east Tennessee. 

Graduate Student Alina Niklison Measuring a hummingbird — Montana Wildlife AUL Tom Martin's project in Venezuela.

Virginia unit researchers study seasonal movement, dispersal, and home range of invasive Northern Snakehead Channa argus. Scientists also research growth and reproductive behavior in a newly established population of northern snakehead.

Josh Schloesser, a MS student at the Kansas Unit holding a grass carp collected while sampling with the USFWS on the Missouri River. Josh is working closely with the FWS and other agencies to develop sampling protocols for Missouri River fishes.

2007 Research crew for the short-tailed albatross satellite tracking study conducted on Torishima Island, Japan. Front row (left to right): Noboru Nakamura, Hayao Murakami, Paul Sievert, Yuki Watanabe, Fumio Sato. Back row: Miwa Tsuchiya, Robert Suryan.

Matt Reiter, MN Ph.D. student, and Steve, field technician, gathering data near Churchill, MB, Canada for Canada Goose research project.

Janie Kearns, with a mature (caviar-bearing) paddlefish captured by a commercial fisherwoman.

Dr. Mike Redding, Co-Principal Investigator (Tenn Tech) and Phil Bettoli, implanting a sonic tag into the body cavity of an endangered pallid sturgeon on the banks of the Mississippi River. 

Arkansas Unit student Aaron Cushing implanting a transmitter in a rainbow trout.