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| Western Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges. Image ID: 36782 Species: Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis Location: Lake Hodges, San Diego, California, USA | Western Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges. Image ID: 36783 Species: Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis Location: Lake Hodges, San Diego, California, USA | Western Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges. Image ID: 36786 Species: Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis Location: Lake Hodges, San Diego, California, USA |
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| Western Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges. Image ID: 36787 Species: Western Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis Location: Lake Hodges, San Diego, California, USA | Brandt's Cormorant Skypointing, Courtship Display, La Jolla. Image ID: 36800 | Brandt's Cormorant Skypointing, Courtship Display, La Jolla. Image ID: 36801 |
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| Brandt's Cormorant Skypointing, Courtship Display, La Jolla. Image ID: 36804 | Double-crested cormorant vocalizing, calling, showing mating nuptial crests on its head. Image ID: 36877 Species: Double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Double-crested cormorant nuptial crests, tufts of feathers on each side of the head, plumage associated with courtship and mating. Image ID: 36878 Species: Double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Double-crested cormorant nuptial crests, tufts of feathers on each side of the head, plumage associated with courtship and mating. Image ID: 36879 Species: Double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Double-crested cormorant nuptial crests, tufts of feathers on each side of the head, plumage associated with courtship and mating. Image ID: 36880 Species: Double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Clarks Grebes (left) and Western Grebe (right), arguing over a rock, Lake Hodges. Image ID: 36882 Species: Western Grebe, Clarks Grebe, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Aechmophorus clarkii |
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| Clarks Grebes, courting pair, Lake Hodges. Image ID: 36884 Species: Clarks Grebe, Aechmophorus clarkii | Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with raised wings and throat pouch inflated in a courtship display to attract females. Image ID: 16728 Species: Magnificent frigatebird, Fregata magnificens Location: North Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | King penguin, mated pair courting, displaying courtship behavior including mutual preening. Image ID: 24399 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island |
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| King penguin, mated pair courting, displaying courtship behavior. Image ID: 24400 Species: King penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus Location: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island | Adult male humpback whale singing, suspended motionless underwater. Only male humpbacks have been observed singing. All humpbacks in the North Pacific sing the same whale song each year, and the song changes slightly from one year to the next. Image ID: 02812 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Adult male humpback whale singing, suspended motionless underwater. Only male humpbacks have been observed singing. All humpbacks in the North Pacific sing the same whale song each year, and the song changes slightly from one year to the next. Image ID: 02814 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| Adult male humpback whale singing, suspended motionless underwater. Only male humpbacks have been observed singing. All humpbacks in the North Pacific sing the same whale song each year, and the song changes slightly from one year to the next. Image ID: 02815 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | North Pacific humpback whale, competitive group with bubble streaming. Image ID: 02999 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Male humpback whale bubble streaming underwater. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims behind a mother and calf (barely seen in the distance). Image ID: 04416 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| Primary escort male humpback whale bubble streaming during competitive group socializing. This primary escort is swimming behind a female. The bubble curtain may be a form of intimidation towards other male escorts that are interested in the female. Image ID: 04424 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Primary escort male humpback whale bubble streaming during competitive group socializing. This primary escort is swimming behind a female. The bubble curtain may be a form of intimidation towards other male escorts that are interested in the female. Image ID: 04425 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Male humpback whale bubble streaming underwater. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims behind a mother and calf (barely seen in the distance). Image ID: 04437 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| Adult male humpback whale bubble streaming underwater. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims behind a female during competitive group activities. The bubble curtain may be meant as warning or visual obstruction to other nearby male whales interested in the female. Image ID: 04443 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Adult male humpback whale bubble streaming underwater. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims behind a female during competitive group activities. The bubble curtain may be meant as warning or visual obstruction to other nearby male whales interested in the female. Image ID: 04445 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Adult male humpback whale bubble streaming underwater. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims behind a female during competitive group activities. The bubble curtain may be meant as warning or visual obstruction to other nearby male whales interested in the female. Image ID: 04446 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| Adult male humpback whale singing, suspended motionless underwater. Only male humpbacks have been observed singing. All humpbacks in the North Pacific sing the same whale song each year, and the song changes slightly from one year to the next. Image ID: 04485 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Adult male humpback whale singing, suspended motionless underwater. Only male humpbacks have been observed singing. All humpbacks in the North Pacific sing the same whale song each year, and the song changes slightly from one year to the next. Image ID: 04488 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Adult male humpback whale bubble streaming underwater. The male escort humpback whale seen here is emitting a curtain of bubbles as it swims behind a mother and calf. The bubble curtain may be meant as warning or visual obstruction to other nearby male whales interested in the mother. Image ID: 05924 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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