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| Brown pelicans, many in winter breeding plumage, crowd cliffs above the ocean to rest, preen and dry themselves in the sun. Image ID: 20197 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | A brown pelican preening, reaching with its beak to the uropygial gland (preen gland) near the base of its tail. Preen oil from the uropygial gland is spread by the pelican's beak and back of its head to all other feathers on the pelican, helping to keep them water resistant and dry. Note adult winter breeding plumage in display, with brown neck, red gular throat pouch and yellow and white head. Image ID: 20262 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Sunrise on the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter. Image ID: 27699 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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| Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from Risting Glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24687 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | M/V Polar Star approaches Jenkins Glacier (left), Risting Glacier (center) and a third glacier (right) at the end of Drygalski Fjord. Image ID: 24688 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | |
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| Panorama of the Racetrack at Death Valley. Image ID: 27686 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 2831 x 15932 | ||
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| Zabriskie Point sunrise, clouds blurred by long time exposure, Death Valley National Park, California. Image ID: 27655 Location: Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Zodiacal light and Milky Way over Death Valley. Zodiacal light is a faint diffuse light seen along the plane of the ecliptic in the vicinity of the setting or rising sun, caused by sunlight scattered off space dust in the zodiacal cloud. Image ID: 27693 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Sunrise on the Racetrack Playa. The sliding rocks, or sailing stones, move across the mud flats of the Racetrack Playa, leaving trails behind in the mud. The explanation for their movement is not known with certainty, but many believe wind pushes the rocks over wet and perhaps icy mud in winter. Image ID: 27696 Location: Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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| Brown pelican preening, reaching with its beak to the uropygial gland (preen gland) near the base of its tail. Preen oil from the uropygial gland is spread by the pelican's beak and back of its head to all other feathers on the pelican, helping to keep them water resistant and dry. Image ID: 23676 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Drygalski Fjord, passengers on icebreak M/V Polar Star. The water is packed with brash ice which has broken away from Risting Glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24684 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from Risting Glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24697 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island |
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| Double-crested cormorant drys its wings in the sun following a morning of foraging in the ocean, La Jolla cliffs, near San Diego. Image ID: 26530 Species: Double-crested cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from the glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24698 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | M/V Polar Star approaches Jenkins Glacier (left), Risting Glacier (center) and a third glacier (right) at the end of Drygalski Fjord. Image ID: 24699 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island |
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| Milky Way over Clark Dry Lake playa, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 31034 Pano dimensions: 9121 x 6194 | ||
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| Milky Way over Clark Dry Lake playa, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 31036 Pano dimensions: 9366 x 6172 | ||
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| Milky Way over Clark Dry Lake playa, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 31037 | Milky Way over Clark Dry Lake playa, Anza Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 31035 | California brown pelican preening as it rests in the sun, drying after a morning foraging on the ocean. Image ID: 22267 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from the glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24715 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | Drygalski Fjord, packed with brash ice which has broken away from the glacier at the end of the narrow fjord. Image ID: 24716 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | Salt polygons. After winter flooding, the salt on the Badwater Basin playa dries into geometric polygonal shapes. Image ID: 27635 Location: Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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| Darwin Falls in Death Valley, near the settlement of Panamint Springs. The falls are fed by a perennial stream that flows through a narrow canyon of plutonic rock, and drop of total of 80' (24m) in two sections. Image ID: 27684 Location: Darwin Falls, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Darwin Falls in Death Valley, near the settlement of Panamint Springs. The falls are fed by a perennial stream that flows through a narrow canyon of plutonic rock, and drop of total of 80' (24m) in two sections. Image ID: 27685 Location: Darwin Falls, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Mountainsides, rocky and snow covered, overlooking Drygalski Fjord. Image ID: 24714 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island |
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| M/V Polar Star approaches Risting Glacier at the end of Drygalski Fjord. Image ID: 26380 Location: Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia Island | Salt polygons. After winter flooding, the salt on the Badwater Basin playa dries into geometric polygonal shapes. Image ID: 27632 Location: Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Salt polygons. After winter flooding, the salt on the Badwater Basin playa dries into geometric polygonal shapes. Image ID: 27633 Location: Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California, USA |
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| Salt polygons. After winter flooding, the salt on the Badwater Basin playa dries into geometric polygonal shapes. Image ID: 27634 Location: Badwater, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | ||
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