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Field Guide

The Wildlife Department's annual Selman Bat Watch gives viewers a chance to see hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from a cave to feed. (Blake Podhajsky/ODWC)

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American White Pelican. Photo by Stephen Ofsthun

Tagged Pelican Photographed 950 Miles from Nest

Eastern whip-poor-will. Photo by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (CC-by-2.0)

New Survey Efforts Launch this Spring

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Outdoor Oklahoma 4644 (Urban American Outdoors, Noodling Girls, Lexington WMA)

Species Spotlight

Brown Recluse, SMITHSONIAN INST. NMNH INSECT ZOO/FLICKR CC BY

Photo by: SMITHSONIAN INST. NMNH INSECT ZOO/FLICKR CC

The Dock

Isaiah Barr

Caught 05/12/2022 at: Oologah Lake

Alan Barger

Caught 05/12/2022 at: Hefner

Deaton Smith

Caught 05/12/2022 at: Fort Cobb Reservoir