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| 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. Image ID: 19693 Species: Elk, Cervus canadensis Location: Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | Cholla cactus, brittlebush, ocotillo and various cacti and wildflowers color the sides of Glorietta Canyon. Heavy winter rains led to a historic springtime bloom in 2005, carpeting the entire desert in vegetation and color for months. Image ID: 10975 Species: Opuntia, Encelia farinosa, Fouquieria splendens Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Waterfall at Temple of Sinawava during peak flow following spring rainstorm. Zion Canyon. Image ID: 12450 Location: Temple of Sinawava, Zion National Park, Utah, USA |
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| Vernal Falls at peak flow in late spring, with a rainbow appearing in the spray of the falls, viewed from the Mist Trail. Image ID: 12634 Location: Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Grand Prismatic Spring (left) and Excelsior Geyser (right). Grand Prismatic Spring displays a stunning rainbow of colors created by species of thermophilac (heat-loving) bacteria that thrive in narrow temperature ranges. The blue water in the center is too hot to support any bacterial life, while the outer orange rings are the coolest water. Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest spring in the United States and the third-largest in the world. Midway Geyser Basin. Image ID: 13571 Location: Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA | A Florida manatee, or West Indian Manatee, swims slowly through the clear waters of Crystal River. Image ID: 02696 Species: West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus Location: Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River, Florida, USA |
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| Yosemite Valley Tunnel View, Storm clouds at sunset, Yosemite National Park. Image ID: 34542 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 7653 x 12541 | Yosemite Falls at peak flow in late spring, viewed from Cooks Meadow. Image ID: 12631 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Scripps Pier solstice, sunset aligned perfectly with the pier. Image ID: 28475 Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA |
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| 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: 26161 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Yosemite Falls and rainbow, Half Dome in distance, viewed from the Yosemite Falls trail, spring. Image ID: 27742 Location: Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park, California, USA | Dune Evening Primrose bloom in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33186 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA |
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| Yosemite Falls reflected in flooded meadow. The Merced River floods its banks in spring, forming beautiful reflections of Yosemite Falls. Image ID: 26887 Location: Yosemite National Park, California, USA Pano dimensions: 5256 x 11469 | ||
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| Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33247 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA | Lunar Eclipse Sequence Over Broken Hill, Torrey Pines State Reserve. While the moon lies in the full shadow of the earth (umbra) it receives only faint, red-tinged light refracted through the Earth's atmosphere. As the moon passes into the penumbra it receives increasing amounts of direct sunlight, eventually leaving the shadow of the Earth altogether. October 8, 2014. Image ID: 29412 Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | The OVRO 40 meter Telescope, part of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory located near Big Pine, California, USA. The telescope is used to conduct interferometric observations along with the other telescopes in the observatory, as a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) station and as a single dish instrument. Its main focus today is on the monitoring of blazars. Image ID: 28796 Location: Big Pine, California, USA Pano dimensions: 7153 x 11978 |
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| Torrey Pines State Beach at Sunset, La Jolla, Mount Soledad and Blacks Beach in the distance. Image ID: 35061 Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | 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: 26144 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada | Sockeye salmon, migrating upstream in the Adams River to return to the spot where they were hatched four years earlier, where they will spawn, lay eggs and die. Image ID: 26149 Species: Sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka Location: Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Broken Hill in soft pre-dawn light, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Torrey Pines State Reserve. La Jolla and Mount Soledad in the distance. Image ID: 36564 Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Wildflowers Bloom in Spring, Joshua Tree National Park. Image ID: 33144 Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA | Chocolate lily growing among grasses on oak-covered hillsides. The chocolate lily is a herbaceous perennial monocot that is increasingly difficult to find in the wild due to habitat loss. The flower is a striking brown color akin to the color of chocolate. Image ID: 33151 Location: Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Murrieta, California, USA |
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| Purple owls clover, Rancho La Costa, Carlsbad. Image ID: 33208 Location: Rancho La Costa, Carlsbad, California, USA | Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33243 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA | Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33246 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA |
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| The Botanical Building in Balboa Park, San Diego. The Botanical Building, at 250 feet long by 75 feet wide and 60 feet tall, was the largest wood lath structure in the world when it was built in 1915 for the Panama-California Exposition. The Botanical Building, located on the Prado, west of the Museum of Art, contains about 2,100 permanent tropical plants along with changing seasonal flowers. The Lily Pond, just south of the Botanical Building, is an eloquent example of the use of reflecting pools to enhance architecture. The 193' by 43' foot pond and smaller companion pool were originally referred to as Las Lagunas de las Flores (The Lakes of the Flowers) and were designed as aquatic gardens. The pools contain exotic water lilies and lotus which bloom spring through fall. Image ID: 28823 Location: Balboa Park, San Diego, California, USA | Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33227 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA | Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33233 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA |
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| Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33240 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA | Wildflowers bloom across Carrizo Plains National Monument, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33252 Location: Carrizo Plain National Monument, California, USA | |
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