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Plumose Anemone, Metridium senile, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
Species: Plumose anemone, Metridium senile
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 32817  

Plumose Anemone, Metridium senile, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
Species: Plumose anemone, Metridium senile
Location: Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 32818  

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.
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Maui, Hawaii
Image ID: 05928  

Ballooning over the Maasai Mara National Reserve and Mara River, Kenya.
Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Image ID: 39614  

African Elephants Drinking from the Mara River, Mara Triangle, Kenya.
Species: African elephant, Loxodonta africana
Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Image ID: 39648  

Hippos, Mara River.
Species: Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius
Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Image ID: 39649  

Young Red Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus in La Jolla.
Species: Red-Shouldered Hawk, Buteo lineatus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 39829  

Brown pelican in flight with wings spread wide, slowing as it returns from the ocean to land on seacliffs, juvenile plumage.
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 38589  

A juvenile 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. Adult winter non-breeding plumage. Pelican yoga.
Species: Brown, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 38693  

Aerial photo of gray whale calf and mother. This baby gray whale was born during the southern migration, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place.
Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
Location: San Clemente, California
Image ID: 29001  

Lionness and two week old cub, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.
Species: African lion, Panthera leo
Location: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Image ID: 29793  

Juvenile bald eagle, second year coloration plumage, closeup of head, snowflakes visible on feathers. Immature coloration showing white speckling on feathers.
Species: Bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis
Location: Kachemak Bay, Homer, Alaska
Image ID: 22612  

Yellow cottonwood trees in autumn, fall colors in the Virgin River Narrows in Zion National Park.
Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26090  

The Virgin River flows through the Zion Narrows, with tall sandstone walls towering hundreds of feet above.
Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26103  

Photographer in the Virgin River Narrows, with flowing water, autumn cottonwood trees and towering red sandstone cliffs.
Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26106  

Pacific harbor seal, mother and pup.
Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 15750  

Male elk bugling during the fall rut. Large male elk are known as bulls. Male elk have large antlers which are shed each year. Male elk engage in competitive mating behaviors during the rut, including posturing, antler wrestling and bugling, a loud series of screams which is intended to establish dominance over other males and attract females.
Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis
Location: Madison River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 19700  

Yosemite Falls rises above the Merced River, viewed from Swinging Bridge.
Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 22757  

A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26146  

A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26148  

A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26156  

Yellow cottonwood trees in autumn, fall colors in the Virgin River Narrows in Zion National Park.
Location: Virgin River Narrows, Zion National Park, Utah
Image ID: 26091  

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.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26165  

Brown pelican, juvenile with blue and gray identification bands on its legs. These tags aid scientists in understanding how the birds travel and recover if they have been rehabilitated. This large seabird has a wingspan over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status, due largely to predation in the early 1900s and to decades of poor reproduction caused by DDT poisoning.
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California
Image ID: 23630  

River Seine and Notre Dame Cathedral at Sunrise. Notre Dame de Paris ("Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral or simply Notre Dame, is a historic Roman Catholic Marian cathedral on the eastern half of the Ile de la Cite in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the largest and most well-known churches in the world ever built, Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris.
Location: Notre Dame de Paris, France
Image ID: 28210  

Aerial Photo of Tijuana River Mouth SMCA. Tijuana River Mouth State Marine Conservation Area borders Imperial Beach and the Mexican Border.
Location: Imperial Beach, California
Image ID: 30648  

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.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26145  

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.
Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka
Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 26152