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| A school of sockeye salmon, swimming up the Adams River to spawn, where they will lay eggs and die. Image ID: 26164 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | A male sockeye salmon, showing injuries sustained as it migrated hundreds of miles from the ocean up the Fraser River, swims upstream in the Adams River to reach the place where it will fertilize eggs laid by a female in the rocks. It will die so after spawning. Image ID: 26166 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph. Image ID: 26167 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada |
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| 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: 26169 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | A male sockeye salmon, showing injuries sustained as it migrated hundreds of miles from the ocean up the Fraser River, swims upstream in the Adams River to reach the place where it will fertilize eggs laid by a female in the rocks. It will die so after spawning. Image ID: 26171 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | A sockeye salmon swims in the shallows of the Adams River, with the surrounding forest visible in this split-level over-under photograph. Image ID: 26177 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Alaskan brown bear catching a jumping salmon, Brooks Falls. Image ID: 17032 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA | Alaskan brown bear catching a jumping salmon, Brooks Falls. Image ID: 17033 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA | A brown bear eats a salmon it has caught in the Brooks River. Image ID: 17051 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19166 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for salmon returning from the ocean to Silver Salmon Creek. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19167 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear (grizzly bear) walks sedge grass meadow near Silver Salmon Creek. Image ID: 19169 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Young brown bear grazes in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Image ID: 19173 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Mature male coastal brown bear boar waits on the tide flats at the mouth of Silver Salmon Creek for salmon to arrive. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19178 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19183 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19187 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for salmon returning from the ocean to Silver Salmon Creek. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19189 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for salmon returning from the ocean to Silver Salmon Creek. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19190 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Coastal brown bear walks in Silver Salmon Creek. Image ID: 19191 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear digs in a nearly dry river bed for remains of salmon. Image ID: 19192 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19193 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Young brown bear grazes in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Image ID: 19196 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Young brown bear grazes in tall sedge grass. Brown bears can consume 30 lbs of sedge grass daily, waiting weeks until spawning salmon fill the rivers. Image ID: 19197 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19200 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Mature male coastal brown bear boar waits on the tide flats at the mouth of Silver Salmon Creek for salmon to arrive. Grizzly bear. Image ID: 19202 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Brown bear paces alongside Silver Salmon Creek. Image ID: 19210 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19218 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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| Brown bear grazing on sedge grass. It may eat up to 30 lbs of sedge grass each day during summer, while waiting for its preferred prey of spawning salmon to arrive. Image ID: 19220 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear forages for razor clams on mud flats at extreme low tide. Image ID: 19222 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Silver Salmon Creek, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA | Coastal brown bear in meadow. The tall sedge grasses in this coastal meadow are a food source for brown bears, who may eat 30 lbs of it each day during summer while waiting for their preferred food, salmon, to arrive in the nearby rivers. Image ID: 19235 Species: Brown bear, Ursus arctos Location: Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA |
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