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A small brown bat with what looks like white powder on its nose. The white is in fact a fungus.

Wildlife Wonders

Do "bat” an eye. These critters need our help!

An image of a wood duck pair sitting on a log beside a turtle.

Wildlife Wonders

We’re Not Wood Ducking Around: A Survival Story

Wildlife Wonders

The Kaleidoscope of Monarch Migration

Minnesota Valley NWR - Confluence Gallery

Minnesota Valley NWR - Walk for the Wild 5k Challenge

A pile of Higgins Eye Pearly Mussels facing many different directions with light glinting off their shells.

Wildlife Wonders

Mussels: The Muscles of a Healthy Waterway

2 Canada geese, which are large birds with black heads with a white section below their eyes, a brown backside and black-tipped white tail, are swimming close to each other. One goose is closer to the camera, and one is further away. The goose that is further away has its head above the goose that is closer as if it is resting its head on the other.

Wildlife Wonders

(Canada) Goosin’ Around in Minnesota

Dark silhouettes of trees and their branches stand out in front of the sun shining in the background. These silhouettes are further emphasized when they are seen reflected in flooded water below them with added texture from the ripples in the water.

Wildlife Wonders

The March Equinox

Federal Wildlife Officer Bests Endurance Challenge

Barred Owl resting with its eyes closed in a tree, perched right next to the white papery trunk. No leaves on any of the trees within the background with the light blue winter sky seen through tree trunks and branches.

Wildlife Wonders

Barred Owls: ‘Tis the mating season

A person wearing snowshoes and a winter hat with a red pompom faces away from the camera as they look out across the Minnesota River Valley from the field next to the overlook behind the Bloomington Education and Visitor Center.

Exploring the Winter Wonderland

Pale bluish-grey foliose lichen adorns the top and sides of a purplish-brown rock, it is accompanied by some moss in the upper corners.

Wildlife Wonders

Lichen: What the fungus is it?

A small brown bat with what looks like white powder on its nose. The white is in fact a fungus.

Wildlife Wonders

Do "bat” an eye. These critters need our help!

An image of a wood duck pair sitting on a log beside a turtle.

Wildlife Wonders

We’re Not Wood Ducking Around: A Survival Story

Wildlife Wonders

The Kaleidoscope of Monarch Migration

Minnesota Valley NWR - Confluence Gallery

Minnesota Valley NWR - Walk for the Wild 5k Challenge

A pile of Higgins Eye Pearly Mussels facing many different directions with light glinting off their shells.

Wildlife Wonders

Mussels: The Muscles of a Healthy Waterway

2 Canada geese, which are large birds with black heads with a white section below their eyes, a brown backside and black-tipped white tail, are swimming close to each other. One goose is closer to the camera, and one is further away. The goose that is further away has its head above the goose that is closer as if it is resting its head on the other.

Wildlife Wonders

(Canada) Goosin’ Around in Minnesota

Dark silhouettes of trees and their branches stand out in front of the sun shining in the background. These silhouettes are further emphasized when they are seen reflected in flooded water below them with added texture from the ripples in the water.

Wildlife Wonders

The March Equinox

Federal Wildlife Officer Bests Endurance Challenge

Barred Owl resting with its eyes closed in a tree, perched right next to the white papery trunk. No leaves on any of the trees within the background with the light blue winter sky seen through tree trunks and branches.

Wildlife Wonders

Barred Owls: ‘Tis the mating season

A person wearing snowshoes and a winter hat with a red pompom faces away from the camera as they look out across the Minnesota River Valley from the field next to the overlook behind the Bloomington Education and Visitor Center.

Exploring the Winter Wonderland

Pale bluish-grey foliose lichen adorns the top and sides of a purplish-brown rock, it is accompanied by some moss in the upper corners.

Wildlife Wonders

Lichen: What the fungus is it?