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Wildlife

Selected images of North American animals and birds in the wild.

Inshore Humpbacks – Alaska’s Admiralty Island is a national wilderness preserve loaded with bears, eagles and anything else that eats salmon. The Chatham Strait and the offshoot bays are fi …
Flying Dolphin Blue Booby – On a hazy day in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, one of a school of dolphins leaps in greeting to a passing blue-footed booby. Spotted from a guided panga nearby. Febru …
Galiano Eagle-92222 – Galiano Island, British Columbia July 5, 2009. A bald eagle searching the channel for food on a quiet day. Although daylight, the background tree appears as ephemera …
Horned Eminence – Nightfall in Yellowstone National Park silhouetting the horns of an elk on a ridge near the Mammoth entrance.
Morning Snow Geese – Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon.
Winged Victory – The day after election day, Novembe 2008. Great egret in Aquatic Park, Berkeley, CA.
Goodnight Sun – A baby humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breaching – seemingly waving goodbye to the day’s sunlight. In Hood Bay on Admiralty Island, Alaska. June 2011.
Joy of the Breach – Breaching mother humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) showing her calf how it’s done. In Hood Bay on Admiralty Island, Alaska. June 2011.
Angoon Portrait – Portrait of an alpha grizzly patrolling the refuse station at the edge of the village of Angoon, Alaska on Admiralty Island. July 2010.
Bear Family Feed – A mother bear takes the first bite of the salmon she caught for her cubs. Seen July 2004 in the McNeil River in Katmai National Park, Alaska.
Coyote Eyes – Light snow falling in Yellowstone, seen in the fur on the face of a wandering coyote. March 2007
Rocky Mountain Wonder – Male elk walking the road in Rocky Mountain National Park at dawn. August 5, 2009.
Ridgeline Buck – A bachelor elk at dawn along a ridgeline at Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California.
Fishing BS Creek – Mark Powers led me to BS Creek on Admiralty Island, which was filled with spawning salmon running through the shallows. Around the second bend he spotted this large brown …
Arriving Flight – A landing eagle appears to do some intricate footwork while landing on a kep-covered rock bordering Admiralty Island in Alaska’s Inside Passage.

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