Portrait of a California brown pelican in winter breeding plumage, yellow head, red throat, pink skin around the eye, brown hind neck. Brown pelicans were formerly an endangered species. In 1972, the United States Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of DDT. Since that time, populations of pelicans have recovered and expanded. The recovery has been so successful that brown pelicans were taken off the endangered species list in 2009.
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40017
Portrait of a California brown pelican in winter breeding plumage, yellow head, red throat, pink skin around the eye, brown hind neck. Brown pelicans were formerly an endangered species. In 1972, the United States Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of DDT. Since that time, populations of pelicans have recovered and expanded. The recovery has been so successful that brown pelicans were taken off the endangered species list in 2009.
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 40018
Pink Cone Geyser erupts. Pink Cone Geyser reaches 30 feet in height, and has highly variable interval and duration. It is a cone-type geyser and its cone has a pinkish tint due to manganese oxide in it. Firehole Lake Drive, Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park.
Location: Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 13551
La Jolla Cliffs overlook the ocean with thousands of cormorants, pelicans and gulls resting and preening on the sandstone cliffs. Sunrise with pink skies.
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 20254
Brilliantly colored orange and pink anthias fishes, schooling in strong ocean currents next to the coral reef which is their home. Fiji.
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji
Image ID: 34957
Brilliantly colored orange and pink anthias fishes, schooling in strong ocean currents next to the coral reef which is their home. Fiji.
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji
Image ID: 35013
Brilliantly colored orange and pink anthias fishes, schooling in strong ocean currents next to the coral reef which is their home. Fiji.
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji
Image ID: 35016
Brilliantly colored orange and pink anthias fishes, schooling in strong ocean currents next to the coral reef which is their home. Fiji.
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji
Image ID: 35018
Brilliantly colored orange and pink anthias fishes, schooling in strong ocean currents next to the coral reef which is their home. Fiji.
Species: Anthias, Pseudanthias
Location: Bligh Waters, Fiji
Image ID: 35019
Pink Sponges Encrusting Rocky Reef alongside various species of algae and gorgonians, San Pedro Martir Island, Sea of Cortez.
Location: Isla San Pedro Martir, Sonora, Mexico
Image ID: 40417