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| Aerial Photo of Tijuana River Mouth SMCA. Tijuana River Mouth State Marine Conservation Area borders Imperial Beach and the Mexican Border. Image ID: 30648 Location: Imperial Beach, California, USA | Adams River sockeye salmon. A female sockeye salmon swims upstream in the Adams River to spawn, having traveled hundreds of miles upstream from the ocean. Image ID: 26145 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Sockeye salmon, swimming upstream in the shallow waters of the Adams River. When they reach the place where they hatched from eggs four years earlier, they will spawn and die. Image ID: 26152 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Two male sockeye salmon, swimming together against the current of the Adams River. After four years of life and two migrations of the Fraser and Adams Rivers, they will soon fertilize a female's eggs and then die. Image ID: 26163 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Adams River sockeye salmon. A female sockeye salmon swims upstream in the Adams River to spawn, having traveled hundreds of miles upstream from the ocean. Image ID: 26168 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Adams River sockeye salmon. A female sockeye salmon swims upstream in the Adams River to spawn, having traveled hundreds of miles upstream from the ocean. Image ID: 26170 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Carcasses of dead sockeye salmon, line the edge of the Adams River. These salmon have already completed their spawning and have died, while other salmon are still swimming upstream and have yet to lay their eggs. Image ID: 26154 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Sockeye salmon, swim upstream in the Adams River, traveling to reach the place where they hatched four years earlier in order to spawn a new generation of salmon eggs. Image ID: 26155 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Cathedral Rocks at sunrise, reflected in a spring meadow flooded by the Merced River. Image ID: 26856 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Vernal Falls and Merced River in spring, heavy flow due to snow melt in the high country above Yosemite Valley. Image ID: 26878 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Safari guide spotting wildlife at sunrise, Olare Orok Conservancy, Kenya. Image ID: 30047 Location: Olare Orok Conservancy, Kenya | Lionness and two week old cubs, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Image ID: 29794 Species: African Lion, Panthera leo Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya |
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| Lion in a tree, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Image ID: 29870 Species: African Lion, Panthera leo Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya | Lionness with injury from water buffalo, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Image ID: 29915 Species: African Lion, Panthera leo Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya | Leopard, Olare Orok Conservancy, Kenya. Image ID: 30036 Species: Leopard, Panthera pardus Location: Olare Orok Conservancy, Kenya |
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| Maasai Giraffe, two males in courtship combat, jousting, Olare Orok Conservancy. Image ID: 30069 Species: Masai Giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi Location: Olare Orok Conservancy, Kenya | Fletcher Peak (10319') at sunset, viewed from Vogelsang High Sierra Camp in Yosemite's high country. Image ID: 23248 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Horseshoe Bend. The Colorado River makes a 180-degree turn at Horseshoe Bend. Here the river has eroded the Navajo sandstone for eons, digging a canyon 1100-feet deep. Image ID: 26602 Location: Horseshoe Bend, Page, Arizona, USA |
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| Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from the Swinging Bridge. The 2425' falls is the tallest in North America. Image ID: 27741 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Soda Springs Basin from Green River Overlook, Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Image ID: 27841 Location: Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA | River Seine, barge and Ile Saint-Louis, sunrise, Paris. Ile Saint-Louis, is one of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France. The island is named after King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis). The island is connected to the rest of Paris by bridges to both banks of the river and by the Pont Saint Louis to the Ile de la Cite. Image ID: 28144 Location: Ile Saint-Louis, Paris, France |
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| River Seine, Full Moon and Eiffel Tower at night, Paris. La Tour Eiffel. The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, who designed the tower in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair. The Eiffel tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world. Image ID: 28203 Location: Tour Eiffel, Paris, France | The Virgin River Narrows, where the Virgin River has carved deep, narrow canyons through the Zion National Park sandstone, creating one of the finest hikes in the world. Image ID: 28585 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | Half Dome reflected in the Merced River. Image ID: 28692 Location: Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, USA |
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| Oak Alley Plantation and its famous shaded tunnel of 300-year-old southern live oak trees (Quercus virginiana). The plantation is now designated as a National Historic Landmark. Image ID: 31009 Species: Southern Live Oak, Quercus virginiana Location: Oak Alley Plantation, Vacherie, Louisiana, USA | Yellow cottonwood trees in autumn, fall colors in the Virgin River Narrows in Zion National Park. Image ID: 26089 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | Flowing water and fall cottonwood trees, along the Virgin River in the Zion Narrows in autumn. Image ID: 26105 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA |
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| Flowing water and fall cottonwood trees, along the Virgin River in the Zion Narrows in autumn. Image ID: 26107 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | Virgin River narrows and fall colors, cottonwood trees in autumn along the Virgin River with towering sandstone cliffs. Image ID: 26109 Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah, USA | The Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River drops 308 feet at the head of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. A long exposure blurs the fast-flowing water. The canyon is approximately 10,000 years old, 20 miles long, 1000 ft deep, and 2500 ft wide. Its yellow, orange and red-colored walls are due to oxidation of the various iron compounds in the soil, and to a lesser degree, sulfur content. Image ID: 13338 Location: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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