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Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon.: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, March 1982
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Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Oregon. True to its name, the Tundra Swan breeds in the high tundra across the top of North America. It winters in large flocks across both coasts, and is frequently encountered during its migration across the continent, This pair, with snow-clad Steens Mountain in the backdrop, was photographed near the small town of French Glen in southeast Oregon in April 2007.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007
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Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. True to its name, the Tundra Swan breeds in the high tundra across the top of North America. It winters in large flocks across both coasts, and is frequently encountered during its migration across the continent, This pair was photographed in the southern part of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in April 2007.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007
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Robinson Jeffers: Love the Wild Swan, 1933, from Solstice (1935)
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Fire and Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Prescribed fire is used at the refuge to maintain ecological processes, specifically: thinning and opening up emergent marsh vegetation, removing decadent material in sagebrush steppe uplands, stimulating herbaceous production, maintaining herbaceous diversity, and improving wildlife habitat and foraging. Prior to this burn, vegetation was very thick and was not being used to optimal level by wildlife. By next year, this area will offer prime habitat for upland birds and waterfowl on the edges of the wetlands adjacent to the marsh.: photo by Carla Burnside, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Pacific Region, 27 February 2014
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Members of an armed anti-government group protesting the prosecution of two ranchers stood around a bonfire at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on Saturday: photo by Wanda Moore/KTVZ, 4 January 2016
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Activists at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon gathered around a fire last week. Various factions of the so-called Patriot movement have joined the occupation: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 16 January 2016
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Activists at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon gathered around a fire last week. Various factions of the so-called Patriot movement have joined the occupation: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 16 January 2016
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“It needs to be very clear that these buildings will never, ever return to the federal government,” said LaVoy Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Joe Raedle/Washington Post, 16 January 2016
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A watchtower is manned at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon: photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters, 3 January 2016
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Competing signs at the Oregon wildlife refuge where anti-government protesters were occupying a building: photo by Kirk Johnson/The New York Times, 4 January 2016
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Competing signs at the Oregon wildlife refuge where anti-government protesters were occupying a building: photo by Kirk Johnson/The New York Times, 4 January 2016
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Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016
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Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016
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Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016
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Lavoy Finicum shows the media a camera taken from a box located on an electric pole that he said was placed there by the FBI to spy on citizens as he and others occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Joe Raedle via the Guardian, 16 January 2016
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Really? #YallQaeda comes and goes as they please? Why are we not rounding up these clowns?: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 16 January 2016
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Bundy Militia Spokesperson: Law Enforcement Lets Us Come And Go, No biggie #YallQaeda: image via Jade Helm Commander @Anomaly!00, 16 January 2016
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[Ryan] Bundy observing one of the cameras his team took down. They believe the @FBI used it to spy on them. #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore Amanda Peacher @WandaKTVZamandapeacher, 16 January 2016
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Supporters of Bundy take down two cameras they believe to be installed by the @FBI #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 16 January 2016
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HAPPENING NOW: Bundy group takes down what they believe to be camera installed by FBI #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 16 January 2016
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Anybody missing a camera? Occupiers display cameras they seized. They allege surveillance. #OregonStandoff: image via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016
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Every time I stop by #OregonStandoff kitchen and supply room, there are more and more supplies and deliveries: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 16 January 2016
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This man is a refuge caretaker. He's desperate to get in & care for birds who rely on his feeding program.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 15 January 2016
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Anti-occupation environmentalists here at #MalheurWildifeRefuge today. #OregonStandoff: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 16 January 2016
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.Kierán Suckling, Executive Director, of the Center for Biological Diversity being shouted down #OregonStandoff: image via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 16 January 2016
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There's a granny in a bird costume taping bird photos on other #bundymilitia protester signs. #OregonStandoff.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 15 January 2016
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Someone finally got arrested at the #OregonStandoff. Ken Medenbach was arrested for driving a stolen gov. vehicle.: image via Brooke Warren @BrooklynDWarren, 16 January 2016
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Oregon police have made an arrest in the militia standoff, and it's not his first rodeo: image via Nicky Woolf @NickyWoolf, 16 January 2016
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You have the right to remain silent. You do NOT have the right to a Snackwell's. #YallQaeda: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 16 January 2016
![Japan's LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on January 15, 2016. The exhibition, one of the largest annual custom car and car-related product show, held here over the three-day period from January 15 to January 17.]()
Japan’s LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday: photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, 15 January 2016
![Japan's LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on January 15, 2016. The exhibition, one of the largest annual custom car and car-related product show, held here over the three-day period from January 15 to January 17.]()
Japan’s LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday: photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, 15 January 2016
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In 1979, feds forcibly removed black occupiers from wildlife refuge #OregonStandoff: image via The Oregonian Verified account @Oregonian, 15 January 2016
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![Artist's impression of W2246-0526, a galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as approximately 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA. Image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).]()
![This handout picture released by the the European Southern Observatory on January 14, 2016 shows an artist impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA.]()
![This handout picture released by the the European Southern Observatory on January 14, 2016 shows an artist impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA.]()
An artist's impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: photo by European Southern Observatory/AFP, 15 January 2015
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This artist's rendering shows a galaxy called W2246-0526, the most luminous galaxy known. New research suggests there is turbulent gas across its entirety, the first example of its kind: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 15 January 2016
![This handout picture released by the the European Southern Observatory on January 14, 2016 shows an artist impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA.]()
![Artist's impression of W2246-0526, a galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as approximately 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA. Image credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO).]()
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Flyway traffic at Malheur NWR: photo by Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016
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Oregon update. #VanillaISIS #YallQaeda: image via Tyler Schremp @TylerSchremp, 16 January 2016
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Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon.: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, March 1982
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Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon.: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, March 1982
Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Oregon. True to its name, the Tundra Swan breeds in the high tundra across the top of North America. It winters in large flocks across both coasts, and is frequently encountered during its migration across the continent, This pair, with snow-clad Steens Mountain in the backdrop, was photographed near the small town of French Glen in southeast Oregon in April 2007.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007
Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. True to its name, the Tundra Swan breeds in the high tundra across the top of North America. It winters in large flocks across both coasts, and is frequently encountered during its migration across the continent, This pair was photographed in the southern part of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in April 2007.: photo by Dan Dzurisin, 15 April 2007
Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) pair, Oregon.: photo by Kathy Munsel, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 19 February 2010
Robinson Jeffers: Love the Wild Swan
“I hate my verses, every line, every word.
Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try
One grass-blade’s curve, or the throat of one bird
That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky.
Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch
One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Unlucky hunter, Oh bullets of wax,
The lion beauty, the wild-swan wings, the storm of the wings.”
-- This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game.
Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast,
Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Does it matter whether you hate your...self? At least
Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
“I hate my verses, every line, every word.
Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try
One grass-blade’s curve, or the throat of one bird
That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky.
Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch
One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.
Unlucky hunter, Oh bullets of wax,
The lion beauty, the wild-swan wings, the storm of the wings.”
-- This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game.
Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast,
Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
Does it matter whether you hate your...self? At least
Love your eyes that can see, your mind that can
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
Robinson Jeffers: Love the Wild Swan, 1933, from Solstice (1935)
Fire and Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon. Prescribed fire is used at the refuge to maintain ecological processes, specifically: thinning and opening up emergent marsh vegetation, removing decadent material in sagebrush steppe uplands, stimulating herbaceous production, maintaining herbaceous diversity, and improving wildlife habitat and foraging. Prior to this burn, vegetation was very thick and was not being used to optimal level by wildlife. By next year, this area will offer prime habitat for upland birds and waterfowl on the edges of the wetlands adjacent to the marsh.: photo by Carla Burnside, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Pacific Region, 27 February 2014
Members of an armed anti-government group protesting the prosecution of two ranchers stood around a bonfire at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on Saturday: photo by Wanda Moore/KTVZ, 4 January 2016
Activists at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon gathered around a fire last week. Various factions of the so-called Patriot movement have joined the occupation: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 16 January 2016
Activists at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon gathered around a fire last week. Various factions of the so-called Patriot movement have joined the occupation: photo by Ruth Fremson/The New York Times, 16 January 2016
“It needs to be very clear that these buildings will never, ever return to the federal government,” said LaVoy Finicum, one of the leaders of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Joe Raedle/Washington Post, 16 January 2016
A watchtower is manned at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon: photo by Jim Urquhart/Reuters, 3 January 2016
Armed occupiers take lookout duty in this watchtower at the Malheur refuge near Burns, Oregon: photo by Rick Bowmer/AP, 6 January 2016
Competing Signs
Competing signs at the Oregon wildlife refuge where anti-government protesters were occupying a building: photo by Kirk Johnson/The New York Times, 4 January 2016
Competing signs at the Oregon wildlife refuge where anti-government protesters were occupying a building: photo by Kirk Johnson/The New York Times, 4 January 2016
Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016
Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016
Fresh photos of armed occupation of #MalheurRefuge in Oregon: image via High Country News @highcountrynews, 4 January 2016
Lavoy Finicum shows the media a camera taken from a box located on an electric pole that he said was placed there by the FBI to spy on citizens as he and others occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge: photo by Joe Raedle via the Guardian, 16 January 2016
Really? #YallQaeda comes and goes as they please? Why are we not rounding up these clowns?: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 16 January 2016
Bundy Militia Spokesperson: Law Enforcement Lets Us Come And Go, No biggie #YallQaeda: image via Jade Helm Commander @Anomaly!00, 16 January 2016
[Ryan] Bundy observing one of the cameras his team took down. They believe the @FBI used it to spy on them. #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore Amanda Peacher @WandaKTVZamandapeacher, 16 January 2016
Supporters of Bundy take down two cameras they believe to be installed by the @FBI #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 16 January 2016
HAPPENING NOW: Bundy group takes down what they believe to be camera installed by FBI #OregonStandoff.: image via Wanda Moore @WandaKTVZ, 16 January 2016
Anybody missing a camera? Occupiers display cameras they seized. They allege surveillance. #OregonStandoff: image via Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016
Every time I stop by #OregonStandoff kitchen and supply room, there are more and more supplies and deliveries: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 16 January 2016
This man is a refuge caretaker. He's desperate to get in & care for birds who rely on his feeding program.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 15 January 2016
Anti-occupation environmentalists here at #MalheurWildifeRefuge today. #OregonStandoff: image via Sam Levin @SamTLevin, 16 January 2016
.Kierán Suckling, Executive Director, of the Center for Biological Diversity being shouted down #OregonStandoff: image via Conrad Wilson @conradjwilson, 16 January 2016
There's a granny in a bird costume taping bird photos on other #bundymilitia protester signs. #OregonStandoff.: image via Amanda Peacher @amandapeacher, 15 January 2016
Someone finally got arrested at the #OregonStandoff. Ken Medenbach was arrested for driving a stolen gov. vehicle.: image via Brooke Warren @BrooklynDWarren, 16 January 2016
Oregon police have made an arrest in the militia standoff, and it's not his first rodeo: image via Nicky Woolf @NickyWoolf, 16 January 2016
You have the right to remain silent. You do NOT have the right to a Snackwell's. #YallQaeda: image via Steve Marmel @Marmel, 16 January 2016
Japan’s LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday: photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, 15 January 2016
Japan’s LED and HID parts manufacturer LYZER displays a demo car, the Lamborghini Murcielago finished with pink Swarovski crystals on the whole body, at Tokyo Auto Salon 2016 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday: photo by Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP, 15 January 2016
In 1979, feds forcibly removed black occupiers from wildlife refuge #OregonStandoff: image via The Oregonian Verified account @Oregonian, 15 January 2016
W2246-0526: What they saw when they they took down the cameras
Artist impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via European Southern Observatory, 15 January 2016
It started to rain
again. The house grew quiet.
The sound of cars splashing
past in the rain was the only sound.
When they took down the cameras
at the Refuge
they learned the truth, too late
for it to be to be of much use --
the galaxy is on the boil
and blowing itself apart
-- and everything was too intense
and too bright
already, even then,
when the universe was young.
Artist’s impression of W2246-0526, a galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as approximately 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via Astronomy Now, 15 January 2015
An artist's impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: photo by European Southern Observatory/AFP, 15 January 2015
An artist's impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: photo by European Southern Observatory/AFP, 15 January 2015
This artist's rendering shows a galaxy called W2246-0526, the most luminous galaxy known. New research suggests there is turbulent gas across its entirety, the first example of its kind: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 15 January 2016
This artist's rendering shows a galaxy called W2246-0526, the most luminous galaxy known. New research suggests there is turbulent gas across its entirety, the first example of its kind: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 15 January 2016
This artist's rendering shows a galaxy called W2246-0526, the most luminous galaxy known. New research suggests there is turbulent gas across its entirety, the first example of its kind: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 15 January 2016
An artist's impression of W2246-0526, a single galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: photo by European Southern Observatory/AFP, 15 January 2015
Artist’s impression of W2246-0526, a galaxy glowing in infrared light as intensely as approximately 350 trillion suns. It is so violently turbulent that it may eventually jettison its entire supply of star-forming gas, according to new observations with ALMA: image by NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry / SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) via Astronomy Now, 15 January 2015
Flyway traffic diversity
Flyway traffic at Malheur NWR: photo by Amelia Templeton @ameliaOPB, 16 January 2016
Oregon update. #VanillaISIS #YallQaeda: image via Tyler Schremp @TylerSchremp, 16 January 2016
Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus), Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon.: photo by Jon. D. Anderson, March 1982
