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Merced National Wildlife Refuge

Merced National Wildlife Refuge hosts the largest wintering population of Lesser Sandhill cranes on the Pacific Flyway. Along with the cranes are huge flocks of ducks and geese and all the predators that go along with rich wildlife.
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Great Blue Heron patrols the field looking for rodents
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Great Blue Heron patrols the field looking for rodents

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  • Spooked
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Young Red-tailed Hawk searches for pray
  • Red-wnged Blackbird in reeds
  • Migrating show geese fill the sky with thier cries.
  • Clouds of Snow Geese take to the air
  • Snow Geese too numerous to count
  • Meadowlark
  • White-faced Ibis feeds in the marsh
  • Great Blue Heron patrols the field looking for rodents
  • Sandhill Cranes
  • Sandhill Cranes perform a mating dance
  • Sandhill Cranes perform a mating dance
  • Sandhill Cranes perform a mating dance
  • Sandhill Cranes perform a mating dance
  • Sandhill Cranes perform a mating dance
  • Great Horned Owl pair perched in a tree
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