U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Mountain-Prairie Region Flickr Update

Latest update from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region Black-billed magpie at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge 06/17/2021 05:01 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Photo: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Black-billed magpie at Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge 06/17/2021 05:01 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Photo: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Measuring Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Jennifer is measuring a pallid sturgeon that was captured during the PSPAP spring Mark and Recapture Study on the Missouri River. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Releasing Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Jason is releasing this recently telemetry tagged pallid back into the Missouri River to begin it's 3-4 years of tracking it movement. Photo: Jennifer Johnson/USFWS Pallid Sturgeon Captured in Trammel Net 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Trammel nets are used by biologist on the Missouri River to capture pallid sturgeon for reproductive assessment and to implant them with telemetry tags. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Pallid Sturgeon Spawn Event Implant 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: This wild pallid sturgeon captured by biologist is getting a 'Spawn Event' tag implanted into her oviduct canal. When the fish begins to spawn the 'spawn event' tags are pushed out of the fish letting biologist know when a fish has spawned. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Jason releasing a pallid sturgeon back into the Missouri River after capturing it during the PSPAP Mark and Recapture Study. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Trotline Sampling for sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Landon is pulling in a shovelnose sturgeon on a trotline. Egg sample of Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Biologist take egg samples of reproductive female sturgeon in order to calculate a time frame of their potential spawn date. Figuring out when they could spawn helps concentrate tracking efforts to pinpoint spawning location in the Missouri River. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Sarah Releasing Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Sarah is getting ready to release this pallid sturgeon back into the Missouri River. This sturgeon was capture during the PSPAP Mark and Recapture Study. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Pulling Trotlines 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Cole is pulling trotlines on the Missouri River as part of the Pallid Sturgeon Population Assessment Program's spring Mark and Recapture Study. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Releasing Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Jason is releasing this recently telemetry tagged pallid back into the Missouri River to begin it's 3-4 years of tracking it movement. Photo: Jennifer Johnson/USFWS Implanting Pallid with Telemetry Tag 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Jason is implanting this pallid sturgeon with a telemetry tag that will be used to track it's movement in the Missouri River for the next 3-4 years in hopes to learn more about their spawning activities and locations, seasonal movements, and habitat use. Photo: Jennifer Johnson/USFWS Ultrasounding Pallid Sturgeon 06/17/2021 04:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Jason is ultrasounding a pallid sturgeon to determine sex and reproductive stage. It was captured on the Missouri River as part of the Pallid Sturgeon Population Assessment Program. Photo: Jennifer Johnson/USFWS Silver Carp Sampling 06/17/2021 02:46 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: USFWS collecting silver carp as part of a 3-4 year telemetry study on the 3 major tributaries in South Dakota below Gavins Point Dam. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Silver Carp Sampling 06/17/2021 02:46 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: USFWS collecting silver carp as part of a 3-4 year telemetry study on the 3 major tributaries in South Dakota below Gavins Point Dam. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Silver Carp Sampling 06/17/2021 02:46 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: USFWS collecting silver carp as part of a 3-4 year telemetry study on the 3 major tributaries in South Dakota below Gavins Point Dam. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Silver Carp Sampling 06/17/2021 02:46 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: USFWS collecting silver carp as part of a 3-4 year telemetry study on the 3 major tributaries in South Dakota below Gavins Point Dam. Photo: Jason Kral/USFWS Perch in the throat of a bass 06/17/2021 12:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Largemouth bass eating a yellow perch caught at Denby Lake, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, during 2012 electrofishing survey. Photo: USFWS Largemouth bass 06/17/2021 12:33 PM EDT USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo: Dan James with a largemouth bass caught at Denby Lake, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, during 2012 electrofishing surveys. 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