USFWS National Digital Library

- Explore the world with shorebirds
- Birds; Shorebirds;
- A multidisciplinary education guide for grades 2-12 (with sections on "How to Adapt" for Preschool - 1st grade, home schools, youth groups, and nature centers)
- Documents
- Clark's Grebes (rushing)
- Migratory birds;
- A pair of Clark's Grebes display their courtship ritual known as "rushing" or "weed dance".
- Images
- American dipper
- Birds; Migratory birds; Perching birds;
- Bird standing on rocks among vegetation at edge of rushing water of Three Sisters Creek on Kodiak Island.
- Images
- Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan
- Document;Wildlife refuges; Planning
- kootenai-final.pdf
- Documents
- Steve Kufrin oral history transcript
- History; Biography; Employees (USFWS); Military; Hunting; Wilderness; Wildlife management; Wildlife refuges; Work of the Service;
- Oral history interview with Steve Kufrin. Dorothe Norton as interviewer.
- Documents
- Runoff Rushing Into Fields
- Erosion; Water conservation; Water management; Wildlife refuges;
- Runoff on the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge rushes into fields to form pools.
- Images
- The state of the birds United States of America 2009
- Document; Birds;
- State_of_the_Birds_2009.pdf
- Documents
- American Rubyspot Damselfly
- Insects; Aquatic environments; Riparian environments; Rivers and streams;
- The beautiful rubyspot damselfly is difficult to mistake for any other species in California with its brightly colored thorax, bright red spot at the base of the wings,and large size. While occasionally found at large lakes, its most typical...
- Images
- Audio of whale blow
- Marine mammals; Audio Clip;
- This is a 30-second mp3 audio clip of a whale "blowing." What do we mean when we say a whale "blows?" While a whale is holding its breath, air is compressed in its chest. Upon reaching the surface, the air is exhaled through the...
- Audio
- Tom Wardleigh oral history transcript
- History; Biography; Personnel; Aviation;
- Tom Wardleigh oral history interview with Jim King.
- Documents