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Brown Bear Portrait

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Latitude: 59° 59' 46.51" N, Longitude: 152° 38' 43.51" W, Coord: 59.996253°, -152.64542°
Filed under: Alaska, Brown Bear, Lake Clark, National Parks, Photo of the Day, Wildlife on 8/11/2007

My goal in July was to shoot portraits of bears. I scheduled my visit before the arrival of salmon so that the bears would be in the meadows eating sedge grass and staging in the area, waiting for salmon to arrive. Next trip will be a bit later to coincide with salmon and look more for interesting behaviour oriented around salmon predation and territoriality between adult bears.

This young coastal brown bear (Ursus arctos) was resting and eating sedge grass.

Portrait of a young brown bear, pausing while grazing in tall sedge grass.  Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers., Ursus arctos,  Copyright Phillip Colla, image #19157, all rights reserved worldwide.
Portrait of a young brown bear, pausing while grazing in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA.
Image: 19157  
Species: Ursus arctos
Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA
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