Soaring high! 🦆✨We’re excited to share this year’s Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest winning artwork! 🎨 Congratulations to Joseph Hautman of Plymouth, Minnesota who won the 2022 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with his acrylic painting of three tundra swans flying over a wetland! 🎉 Hautman took top honors at America’s oldest and most prestigious wildlife art event. Hautman’s acrylic painting will be made into the 2023-2024 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (“Duck Stamp”), which will go on sale in late June 2023. Second place in the 2022 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest went to Frank Mittelstadt of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin with his acrylic painting of tundra swans. Third place in the 2022 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest went to Robert Hautman of Delano, Minnesota with his acrylic painting of an American wigeon. @usfws produces the Federal Duck Stamp, which sells for $25 and raises about $40 million in sales each year to protect wetland habitats across the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge System to benefit wildlife and people. Since 1934, Federal Duck Stamp sales have raised more than $1.1 billion to conserve over 6 million acres of habitat for wildlife and provide opportunities for people to connect with nature on public lands across America. Learn more at fws.gov/service/duck-stamps and in today’s story. 🎨 © USFWS #WildlifeConservation #DuckStamp