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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: 02796 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: 02794 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: 02802 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: 02813 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | West Indian manatee and volunteer observer, Homosassa State Park. Image ID: 02788 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Homosassa River, Florida, USA | West Indian manatee and volunteer observer, Homosassa State Park. Image ID: 02791 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Homosassa River, Florida, USA |
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| An enormous blue whale swims in front of whale watchers on a private yacht. Only a small portion of the whale, which dwarfs the boat and may be 70 feet or more in length, can be seen. Open ocean offshore of San Diego. Image ID: 07541 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA | Lunar corona, or moon halo, also known as lunar nimbus, icebow or gloriole, occurring 22 degrees around the moon. Observed during the full lunar eclipse of April 14/15 2014. Planet Mars at upper right, blue star Spica to the right of the moon. Image ID: 29229 Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Gray whale dorsal ridge (back) at the surface in front of a boat full of whale watchers, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island. Image ID: 21180 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada |
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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: 02795 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: 02800 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: 04484 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| Perfect view of the ventral surface of a humpback whales fluke, as the whale raises its fluke just before diving underwater. The white patches and scalloping along the trailing edge of the fluke make this whale identifiable when it is observed from year to year. Image ID: 27031 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA | Gray whale raising its fluke (tail) in front of a boat of whale watchers before diving to the ocean floor to forage for crustaceans, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island. Image ID: 21184 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada | 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 |
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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: 02814 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: 02815 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: 04485 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: 04488 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Perfect view of the ventral surface of a humpback whales fluke, as the whale raises its fluke just before diving underwater. The white patches and scalloping along the trailing edge of the fluke make this whale identifiable when it is observed from year to year. Image ID: 27047 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA | Humpback whale surface active group including head lunge and two fluke swipes, whale watching boat. Image ID: 04243 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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| North Pacific humpback whale rounds out in front of whale watching boat. Image ID: 00347 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | North Pacific humpback whale rounds out near observers. Image ID: 01338 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA | Wolf watchers gather on a bluff near Slough Creek with high power field scopes and binoculars to observe the Slough Creek pack of wolves. Image ID: 13652 Location: Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA |
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| Tourists observe a large male elk, known as a bull, with large set of antlers. By September, this bull elk's antlers have reached their full size and the velvet has fallen off. This bull elk has sparred with other bulls for access to herds of females in estrous and ready to mate. Image ID: 19728 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Gray whale dorsal ridge (back) at the surface in front of a boat full of whale watchers, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island. Image ID: 21181 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada | Gray whale raising its fluke (tail) in front of a boat of whale watchers before diving to the ocean floor to forage for crustaceans, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island. Image ID: 21182 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Gray whale raising its fluke (tail) in front of a boat of whale watchers before diving to the ocean floor to forage for crustaceans, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island. Image ID: 21183 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada | Gray whale raising its fluke (tail) in front of a boat of whale watchers before diving to the ocean floor to forage for crustaceans, Cow Bay, Flores Island, near Tofino, Clayoquot Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island. Image ID: 21185 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: Cow Bay, Flores Island, British Columbia, Canada | Humpback whale surface active group, male escort head lunging, whale watching boat. Image ID: 04237 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Maui, Hawaii, USA |
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