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Robin - with young in nest, in shed
Sunset silhouettes of Cardon cactus and Adam's Tree (Fouquieria diguetii)
Coastal Agave
Agave (coastal Agave)
Coastal agave
Rainbow
Baja California Gopher snake
Baja California Gopher snake
Baja California Gopher snake
Fin Whale - note characteristic white color of right side of lower jaw (left side is dark as rest of the body)
Fin Whale - appearing above water
Fin Whale - the organisms attached to the dorsal fin and alongside the body of the whale are "pseudo stalked barnacles" (Xenobalanus globicipitis)
Blue Whale, mother and calf near surface
Blue Whale, mother and calf near surface
Blue Whale - this whale has been gathering food deep within the water column and reaches the surface with the throat pleats still distended, forming an enormous pouch
Blue Whale - this whale has been gathering food deep within the water column and reaches the surface with the throat pleats still distended, forming an enormous pouch
Blue Whale - near surface
Blue Whale - near surface, blowing
Blue Whale - near surface
Blue Whales - Near surface
Blue Whale - near surface
California gray whale - adult
California gray whale - adult
California Gray Whale - adult, photo taken from above the left side of a gray whale, showing the widely spaced bristles or hairs, sprouting from small dimples on the skin of the upper jaw
California gray whale - adult, colony of barnacles (Cryptolepas rhachianecti) and Cyamid crustaceans on the head of a gray whale
Gray whale - mother with calf raising its head over its mother's body, a calf looks at the small whale watching boat from which the photo is taken
Gray Whale - mother and calf , calf leans its head on its mother's back
Gray Whale - mother and calf resting at the surface
Gray Whale - calf
Gray whale - calf raising its head over its mother's body, a calf opens its mouth while looking at the small whale watching boat from which the photo is taken
Gray Whale - calf playing near its mother, a calf opens its mouth, showing its white baleen
Gray whale - calf
Gray whale - calf
Gray whale - calf 's eye
Gray whale - spyhopping
Gray Whale - spyhopping
Gray Whale - spyhopping
Gray Whale - underwater photo of a calf. The mother is barely visible behind the calf.
Gray Whale - underwater photo of a calf at close range
Gray Whale - mother and calf
Gray Whale - head of an adult gray whale
Gray Whale - mother (in front), and calf
Gray Whale - calf on top of mother's back
Gray Whale - underwater close-up of a calf. The mother is in the lower left, she is swimming upside-down (a throat groove is visible in the lower left corner of the image).
Gray Whale - underwater photo of a calf. The mother is barely visible below the calf
Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whale and whale watching boats
Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whale and whale watchers
Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whales, calf and mother, and a young tourist.
Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whale, a whale watcher reaches out to touch the snout of an adult whale
Aerial view of two islands of the Bay of La Paz: Espiritu Santo and Partida, separated by a narrow channel
Aerial view of Danzante Island (foreground) and the Baja Peninsula, south of Loreto
Emperor Penguin - chick, wearing christmas scarf
Emperor Penguin - Adult with young wearing Christmas hat
Robin - in snow covered garden
Olive Grove - with wildflowers
Scot's Pine - in winter
Slender loris
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - with wings spread
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - eating
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - in flight
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - in flight.
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Tawny / Steppes Eagle - pale form
Hamerkop
Marabou Stork - group in water
Marabou Stork - group in water
Marabou Stork - group in water
Marabou Stork - eating pieces of tilapia and cat fish
Marabou Stork - eating pieces of tilapia and cat fish
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver - at nest
White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
Sacred Ibis
Sacred Ibis
Abyssinian / Northern Ground Hornbill
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
European Wolf - portrait, in snow
European Wolf - in snow, snarling
European Wolf - alert in snow
Tulip-Tree - in Wilhems-Hšhe hill park
Teal - drake swimming on lake
Teal - drake resting on branch in lake
Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland
Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland
Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland
Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland
Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland
Hill Stream - Flowing Water
Siskins and Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) - at feeder in garden
Siskin - 2 birds at feeder in garden
Robin - portrait, in garden
Robin - in garden
Robin - singing from fir tree in garden
Moorhen - 2 birds standing in snow
Moorhen - walking through snow
Hellebore Blossom - in garden, Febuary
Grey Wagtail - male singing from rock in hill stream
Grey Wagtail - male courtship displaying on rock in hill stream
Grey Wagtail - female with nest material in beak
Greenfinch and Siskin (Carduelis spinus) - at feeder in garden
Eagle Owl - sitting on boulder
Dipper - resting on stone in hill stream
Dipper - searching for food in hill stream
Dipper - in hill stream
Dipper - in hill stream, portrait
Comma - feeding on ornamental heather in garden
Comma - feeding on ornamental heather in garden
Burchell's / Common Zebra - Portrait
Yellowhammer - male bird tending chicks at nest
Wild Pig - young animal stretching itself, in snow
White-faced Saki- portrait of male
Sumatra Tiger - male and female playing
Sumatra Tiger - snarling
Sumatra Tiger - drinking, portrait
Sumatra Tiger - portrait
Hawthorn Blossom - flowering in open hedge landscape
Lowland Tapir - calf standing alert
Sable Antelope - young buck
White Rhinoceros / Square-lipped rhino
White Rhinoceros / Square-lipped rhino
Red-Backed Shrike - male with bumble-bee in beak
Black-tailed Prairie Dog - yawning
Black-tailed Prairie Dog - 2 baby animals playing
Black-tailed Prairie Dog - 3 animals in a row
Black-tailed Prairie Dog - relaxing
Black-tailed Prairie Dog - mother playing with baby
Black-tailed Prairie Dog - eating carrot
European Lynx - climbing down tree stem
Lesser Kudu - Female, portrait
Lesser Kudu - Female, portrait
Ring-tailed Lemur - portrait, sitting on grass
Red Kangaroo - mother with joey
Red Kangaroo - portrait of joey
Red Kangaroo - mother with joey
Red Kangaroo - Joey
Red Kangaroo - joey
Red Kangaroo - in motion, leaping
Red Kangaroo - standing on hind legs, balancing on its tail
Red Kangaroo - 2 animals boxing
Impala - fawns seeking shadow of bush
Impala - herd alert to approaching thunder
Impala - With Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) on ears
Impala - buck, with lip caught on thorny bush
Impala - buck standing between 2 trees
Extensive mature flowering hedge - on edge of dandelion filled meadow
Extensive mature hedge landscape - in autumn colour
Lowland Gorilla - portrait
Southern Giraffe - portrait
Garden Warbler - parent bird feeding chicks
Common Marmoset - sittting on stem
Common Marmoset - portrait
Common Marmoset - portrait
Chamois - male resting on rocky ledge
Blue and Yellow Macaws - pair on branch
Blackthorn - hedge, flowering in April
European Bee-eater - with dragonfly in beak
Asian Elephant - baby animal trumpeting
African Elephant - Bull, portrait
African Elephant - Bull, showing threatening behaviour
Delicate Arch - probably the best-known natural arch in the USA
Delicate Arch - probably the best-known natural arch in the USA, evening light.
General view across "The Windows" area towards La Sal mountains, in winter, evening light
General view across "The Windows" area towards La Sal mountains, in winter, evening light
General view across "The Windows" area towards La Sal mountains, in winter, evening light
Autumn along the Virgin River (North Fork), with cottonwoods
Autumn along the Virgin River (North Fork), with cottonwoods
Fallen autumn leaves of box elder and cottonwood
Autumn in cottonwoods and box elders in autumn colour.
Autumn along the Virgin River (North Fork), with cottonwoods
Cottonwoods or poplars in autumn colour
Cottonwoods or poplars in autumn colour
Huge sandstone cliff at checkerboard mesa
Forest fire, in open scrub/woodland with pines
Forest fire, in open scrub/woodland with pines
Sagebrush high desert land
Sagebrush high desert land
Figure and pumpkins, set up to commemorate Hallowe'en
Bryce Canyon National Park - dawn view from Sunset Point
Bryce Canyon National Park - at night, with starry clear sky
Bryce Canyon National Park - Hoodoos and cliffs below Sunset Point
Bryce Canyon National Park, Sandstone cliffs below Sunset Point.
Bryce Canyon National Park - Hoodoes and cliffs from Sunset Point
Bryce Canyon National Park - trail down into canyon from Sunrise Point, with walkers
Bryce Canyon, National Park, Fairview, Utah, USA
Bryce Canyon National Park, general view from Bryce Point at dawn
High desert in Utah, near Eureka. Invaded by tamarisk
Basin and Range geological formation, looking east from Mount Wheeler on the Nevada/Utah border
Ancient bristlecone pine trees
Ancient bristlecone pine trees
Raven on perch
Leucospermum sp
Giant Sequoia trees
Giant Sequoia trees
Raven in flight
Ancient Utah Juniper
Ponderosa pine forest - in snow
Ancient Utah Juniper - in winter
Fossil tree trunks from c. 225 million years ago; mainly Araucarioxylon and Woodworthia
Raven
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
The White House ruin
Raven in flight
Ancient Pinyon Pine
Navajo power plant
The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks
The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks
The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks
The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks
The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks
The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks
Lake Powell reservoir on the Colorado River
Mormon tea
Round-leaved buffaloberry
Erosion holes in sandstone cliff
A desert Yucca
Mule deer
Sunrise over the Henry Mountains
Juniper tree
View of the extensive Waterpocket Fold
Solar panel array in Natural Bridges National Monument
13th century native indian cliff buildings
Aspen Forest in winter
Distinctive erosion patterns in sandstone cliff
Rock varnish, formed on sandstone cliffs over long period by bacterial action
Arches National Park
Lilly-pilly with berries
A giant horsetail
'Wesley Rose' A burnt candytuft
Serpentine outcrop on Mount Tamalpais (mt. Tam)
Cardon cactus
Old man cactus, or Senita
The cactus-rich part of the Sonoran desert
Western Gull
Sea purslane
Rich and varied shell fauna on the beaches of San Ignacio lagoon
Brush rabbit
Brush rabbit
Brush rabbit
Whale Watchers
Pair of common ravens perched in a boojum tree
Boojum trees
4wd vehicle on the beach at Cabo San Quintin
Huge sand dune system on Cape St. Quintin/Cabo San Quintin
Shaw's Agave
Black Chinned Yuhina
Black Chinned Yuhina
Turkey, domestic (male with wattles)
White Cheeked Touraco
Livingstone's Turaco
Livingstone's Turaco
Sun Conure
Sun Bittern
Southern stone curlew
Roul-Roul Partridge / Crested Wood Partridge - Male
Feral Pigeon
Peacock - male displaying
Ceylon Blue Crowned Hanging Parrot
Red Legged Honeycreeper
Rosy Flamingo
Emu
Emu
Emu
Cockatiel on dead tree
Cockatiel at entrance to nest in hollow tree
Moose cow
Bull moose - in velvet, foraging for browse
Bull moose - in velvet - foraging for browse
Bull moose - in velvet foraging for browse
Bull moose - in velvet - crossing road
Varied Sitella / White-winged Sitella
Rainbow Bee-eater - chick in nest hole
Mangrove Grey Fantail
Lesser-crested Tern - in flight
Double-barred Finch
Double-barred Finch - eating Spinifex, Triodia sp. seeds
Brown Goshawk - brooding chicks
King Brown / Mulga Snake - with tongue out
Black Grasswren - female
Banded Honeyeater - immature
Greenshank
Broad-billed Sandpiper in winter plumage
Grey-tailed Tattler - winter-plumaged bird with leg flag
Grey-tailed Tattler - peering sideways
Osprey - carrying fish
House Sparrow - female
Common Myna - bathing in a stream
Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water), disguising itself in waterplants
Russian Desman - caught for tagging
Russian Desman, caught for tagging
Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of the water), disguising itself in waterplants
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman
Russian Desman
Russian Desman
Russian Desman - caught for tagging
Russian Desman - caught for tagging
Russian Desman - caught in a snare
Russian Desman - caught in a snare
Russian Desman - typical burrow
Russian Desman - typical burrow
Russian Desmans - in the burrow
Russian Desman - swimming (from underneath)
Russian Desman - swimming (from underneath)
Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water)
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman - typical habitat
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman - adult's footprints on wet sand of a river beach
Russian Desman - adults from one burrow - feed on a fresh-water mussels
Russian Desman - adult on hind legs, searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel
Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - female, view from back (note the flat tail)
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - showing teeth
Russian Desman - adult female searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture
Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell
Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture
Russian Desman - adult female - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture
Russian Desman - adult female, feeds on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture
Russian Desman - habitat
Russian Desman - habitat
Russian Desman - habitat
Stokesay Castle
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard - female in the rain
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard male displaying with female
Great Bustard male displaying with female
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard - In flight
Great Bustard - In flight
Great Bustard - Female and young males
Great Bustard - Male with the wing outstretched, standing on one leg
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Dehesa landscape with Olive Groves and Oak Trees
Wheatear - Male on rock
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard - female in the rain
Great Bustard displaying male
Cattle Egret on sheep
Merino Sheep
Merino Sheep
Merino Sheep
Merino Sheep - Feeding
Great Bustard displaying male
Benquerencia de la serena, Extremadura. Spain
Great Bustard displaying male
Merino Sheep - Feeding
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard - female
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Cattle Egret on sheep
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustard displaying male
Great Bustards - female
Killer whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Golden orb weaver
Brown Pelican - diving over a school of fish
Killer whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - pod traveling near shore
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring
Watching Belugas
Beluga
Beluga
Beluga
Golden Orb Weaver Spider
Mallard Duck - male
Wood Duck - male
Wood Duck - male
Wood Duck - male
The Book Cliffs are carved into the Mancos Shale (marine deposits, grey talus slope), capped by sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Upper Cretaceous
The Book Cliffs are carved into the Mancos Shale (marine deposits, grey talus slope), capped by sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Upper Cretaceous
The Book Cliffs are carved into the Mancos Shale (marine deposits, grey talus slope), capped by sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Upper Cretaceous
Mallard Duck - pair
Emperor Penguin - young wearing Chistmas hat
Emperor Penguins - 4 young ones walking in a line, wearing Christmas hats.
Aye-aye - Endangered Species
Black Bear - damaged tree. Bears strip the bark and then eat the thin cambium layer.
Pronghorn Antelope - running
Pronghorn Antelope - running in grassland.
Pronghorn Antelope - buck running through autumn tinged grass.
Pronghorn - buck and doe. Buck is chasing doe who has bolted from his harem.
White-tail Deer - in autumn
House Finch - male in redbud tree, spring
Western scrub-jay - among autumn leaves
Western Sheep Moth - on lupine wildflower in subalpine meadow, summer
White-tailed Deer - buck among prairie wildflowers, summer
White-tailed Deer - buck walking through marsh grass in early autumn
White-tail Deer - buck grazing among wildflowers
Steller's Jay
White-tailed Deer - buck in spring
Western Scrub-Jay - among autumn leaves
Black Vulture
Old strangler fig - with aerial roots
Great Blue Heron
Slash pine (Pinus elliottii) and saw-palmetto woodland
Gumbo limbo tree / Tourist tree
Osprey - eating recently-caught fish on a branch, male
Osprey - eating recently-caught fish on a branch, male
Red mangroves, with stilt roots
Periphyton algae - floating on water surface
Pond cypress swamp
Intensive irrigation from groundwater
American Alligator
American Alligator - cruising in front of breeding colony of double-crested cormorants in mangroves
Great Blue Heron
Wood Stork - in water
Wood Stork
Wood Stork - in water
Black Vultures - in huge flock, circling in the sky
Black Vultures - in huge flock, circling in the sky
Tricoloured Heron - in water
Tricoloured Heron - in water
Double-breasted / Double-crested Cormorant
Great White Egret / Great White Heron
Great White Egret / Great White Heron - fishing, with group of birdwatchers ignoring it
New Zealand Christmas Tree / Pohutukawa in flower
Lemon bottlebrush in flower
Common Salvinia - a floating water fern. Invasive in North America, originally from S. America.
Baton-rouge lichen on wood
Red mangrove - stilt roots exposed at low tide, with seedlings growing up through them
Red mangrove - in fruit, this develops and germinates on the tree, then spears into the mud
Red mangrove - in fruit, this develops and germinates on the tree, then spears into the mud
Red mangrove in flower
Coastal lagoon with algae
Yellow-crowned night heron
Shells on Bowman Beach on Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron - on beach
Willet - on beach
Black Skimmer - resting during the day on the beach
Black Skimmer - resting during the day on the beach
Laughing Gull - in breeding plumage on beach
Great Blue Heron - on beach by fishing rod
Royal Tern - non-breeding plumage on beach
Royal Tern, non-breeding plumage
Royal Tern, non-breeding plumage
Royal Tern, non-breeding plumage
Laughing gull - immature, winter
Sandwich Tern - in non-breeding plumage
Swamp cypress woodland
Gray Catbird - relative of mockingbirds
Great White Egret / Great White Heron
Cardinal Airplant, Florida bromeliad / Wild-pine. Attractive, large epiphytic bromeliad, also grown in gardens
Swamp Cypress woodland - in with abundant epiphytes, especially bromeliads
Florida Gar Fish - can survive in deoxygenated waters with the aid of an air bladder
Great Blue Heron - catching and killing a walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) an Asian introduced fish, spreading rapidly in the Everglades
Great Blue Heron - catching and killing a walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) an Asian introduced fish, spreading rapidly in the Everglades
American crow, killing and eating young Florida Redbelly Turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni)
Tricoloured Heron
Snowy Egret - in tree.
Ylang-ylang, in flower
Fer-de-Lance snake - coiled, an aggressive and highly venomous snake
Buff-throated Saltator
Pink polkadot plant / Freckle Face
A tropical Palm Tree
A wild fig, in fruit.
Bouganvillea spectabilis
A Garden Yucca
A wild pineapple
Passion flower
Lichen in high Costa Rican forest
Purple-throated Mountain Gem - female
Green Violet-ear Hummingbird
Rufous-collared sparrow
Noni / Indian mulberry - medicinal for many purposes