Brown pelican in flight at sunrise, La Jolla, Pelecanus occidentalis
Bald eagle portrait, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Alaska.
Bald eagle takes a fish out of the water. Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
A white tern, or fairy tern, alights on a branch at Rose Atoll in American Samoa.
Brown booby flying over Rose Atoll at sunset, with dark colorful storm clouds and other birds in the background.
California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat to keep it flexible and healthy. Note the winter mating plumage, olive and red throat, yellow head.
Bald eagle spreads its wings to land amid a large group of bald eagles. Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Alaska.
Galapagos penguin, underwater, swimming. Bartolome Island, Galapagos. Spheniscus mendiculus.
Western Grebes rushing in a courtship display. Rushiing grebes run across the water 60 feet (20m) or further with their feet hitting the water as rapidly as 20 times per second
Sandhill crane spreads its broad wings as it takes flight in early morning light, Grus canadensis, New Mexico.
California brown pelican in flight, spreading wings wide to slow in anticipation of landing on seacliffs
Male Northern cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, Arizona
Double-crested cormorant nuptial crests, tufts of feathers on each side of the head, plumage associated with courtship and mating
Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with throat pouch inflated, a courtship display to attract females.
Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
California brown pelican uropygial gland preening
Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
Magnificent frigatebird, adult female on nest, Fregata magnificens, Galapagos Islands.
Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often ""blast off"" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day.
Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
California brown pelican in flight, spreading wings wide to slow in anticipation of landing on seacliffs
California Brown pelican in flight, soaring along sea cliffs above the ocean in La Jolla, California. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status.
Sandhilll cranes in golden sunset light, New Mexico
Nazca booby in flight.
Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
Great egret (white egret).
Wood duck, male.
Double-crested cormorant, breeding plumage showing tufts.
Bullock's oriole, first year male.
Double-crested cormorant nuptial crests, tufts of feathers on each side of the head, plumage associated with courtship and mating
Northern cardinal, female.
Bridled titmouse.
Greater roadrunner, Geococcyx californianus, Arizona.
Curve-billed thrasher
California brown pelican spreads its wings wide as it slows before landing on seacliffs.
Clark's Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges, San Diego
Male Pyrrhuloxia, Cardinalis sinuatus, Arizona.
Western Grebes rushing in a courtship display. Rushiing grebes run across the water 60 feet (20m) or further with their feet hitting the water as rapidly as 20 times per second
Wild turkey.
Golden eagle.
Canyon towhee.
Juvenile bald eagle, second year coloration plumage, closeup of head and shoulders, looking directly at camera, snowflakes visible on feathers. Immature coloration showing white speckling on feathers.
House finch, male.
Western Grebes rushing in a courtship display. Rushiing grebes run across the water 60 feet (20m) or further with their feet hitting the water as rapidly as 20 times per second. Lake Hodges, San Diego
Acorn woodpecker, female.
Western gull, early morning pink sky.
Western gulls, courtship behaviour.
Black-headed grosbeak, male. Madera Canyon Recreation Area, Green Valley, Arizona. Pheucticus melanocephalus.
Brown pelican in flight, spreading wings wide to slow in anticipation of landing on seacliffs
Cactus wren.
House sparrow, breeding male.
Unidentified sea bird
Hooded oriole, female.
A brown pelican preening, reaching with its beak to the uropygial gland (preen gland) near the base of its tail. Preen oil from the uropygial gland is spread by the pelican's beak and back of its head to all other feathers on the pelican, helping to keep them water resistant and dry.
Willet
Royal tern in flight, winter adult phase.
Brown pelican head throw. During a bill throw, the pelican arches its neck back, lifting its large bill upward and stretching its throat pouch.
Brandt's cormorant cormorant in flight.
Brown-headed cowbird, male.
California brown pelican preening.
California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave.
Brown pelican portrait, displaying winter plumage with distinctive yellow head feathers and red gular throat pouch
California Brown Pelican flying over a breaking wave
Brown pelican preening, cleaning its feathers after foraging on the ocean, with distinctive winter breeding plumage with distinctive dark brown nape, yellow head feathers and red gular throat pouch.
Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave.
California brown pelican preening, the tip of the bill seen spreading preen oil on feathers.
Snow geese in flight, wings are blurred in long time exposure as they are flying.
California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave.
California Brown Pelican flying over a breaking wave
Bald eagle in flight, sidelit, cloudy sky and Kenai Mountains in the background.
Sandhill crane in flight, wings extended.
Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often ""blast off"" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day.
Snow geese in flight.
Brown pelican in flight, profile, adult winter non-breedin plumage
California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave.
Cormorants rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants.
Clark's grebe, Aechmophorus clarkii, Lake Hodges, San Diego
California Brown Pelicans flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave. Encinitas and Carlsbad coastline in the background.
Cormorants in flight, wings blurred by time exposure
California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat to keep it flexible and healthy
Brown pelican entangled in fishing monofilament line
Double-crested cormorant, breeding plumage showing tufts.
Brown pelican preening, cleaning its feathers after foraging on the ocean, with distinctive winter breeding plumage with distinctive dark brown nape, yellow head feathers and red gular throat pouch
Western gull, flying.
California Brown Pelican head throw, stretching its throat to keep it flexible and healthy. Note the winter mating plumage, olive and red throat, yellow head.
Brown pelicans feeding en masse on clouds of krill, Coronado Islands, Mexico
Snow goose in flight.
Flock of red-winged blackbirds, in flight, blurred in time exposure.
Bald eagle in flight, banking over beach with Kachemak Bay in background.
Sandhill cranes flying, wings blurred from long time exposure.
Double-crested cormorants in flight at sunrise, long exposure produces a blurred motion, La Jolla. Phalacrocorax auritus.
Heermanns gull, moon setting, sunrise.
California Brown Pelican flying over sea foam and waves
Snow geese rest on a still pond in rich orange and yellow sunrise light. These geese have spent their night's rest on the main empoundment and will leave around sunrise to feed in nearby corn fields.
Atlantic puffin, mating coloration.
Snow goose in flight.
Snow geese at sunrise, abstract blur. Long time exposure creates blurring among the geese. New Mexico.
Bald eagle vocalizing, calling, with open beak while on wooden perch.
Western gull on sandstone cliffs.
Flock of Heermanns gulls in flight in front of a big wave
Heermanns gull in flight
Brandt's cormorants flying over a breaking wave
Western gull in flight.
Bald eagle in flight, wing spread, soaring.
A brown pelican preening, reaching with its beak to the uropygial gland (preen gland) near the base of its tail. Preen oil from the uropygial gland is spread by the pelican's beak and back of its head to all other feathers on the pelican, helping to keep them water resistant and dry.
Double-crested cormorant, breeding plumage showing tufts. La Jolla, California, USA
Cormorants rest at night above the La Jolla Caves. La Jolla Sea Caves, the famous La Jolla sea caves lie below tall cliffs at Goldfish Point.
Double-crested cormorant.
Sunset at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, with sandhill cranes silhouetted in reflection in the calm pond. Spectacular sunsets at Bosque del Apache, rich in reds, oranges, yellows and purples, make for striking reflections of the thousands of cranes and geese found in the refuge each winter.
Western gull, adult breeding plumage, note yellow orbital ring around eye.
Double-crested cormorant drys its wings in the sun following a morning of foraging in the ocean, La Jolla cliffs, near San Diego.
Western gull in flight, Larus occidentalis
Small black bird.
Sandhill crane portrait, as it forages in tall grass.
Galapagos penguin at sunset.
Blue-footed booby, courtship display, Punta Suarez.
Blue-footed booby, courtship display.
Nazca booby, Punta Suarez.
White (or fairy) tern.
Western gull, early morning pink sky
A sandhill crane, standing in still waters with rich gold sunset light reflected around it.
Heermanns gull, adult breeding plumage.
Heermanns gull, presunrise purple-pink glow in the distant sky.
Magnificent frigatebird (note blue eye ring), juvenile.
Ring-billed gull.
Brown pelican portrait, displaying winter breeding plumage with distinctive dark brown nape, yellow head feathers and red gular throat pouch.
Sandhill cranes flying, wings blurred from long time exposure.
Northern cardinal, female.
Gila woodpecker, female.
Northern cardinal, male.
Sandhill cranes, flying across a colorful sunset sky, blur wings due to long time exposure.
Brown booby.
Brown booby (juvenile).
Greater flamingo.
Double-crested cormorant nuptial crests, tufts of feathers on each side of the head, plumage associated with courtship and mating
Snow goose in flight.
Magnificent frigatebird, adult male on nest, with raised wings and throat pouch inflated in a courtship display to attract females.
House finch, female.
California brown pelican portrait, winter mating plumage, bright red gular pouch and dark brown hindneck.
Bald eagle in flight, heavy snow falling, snow covered beach and Kachemak Bay in background.
Juvenile bald eagle, calling vocalizing, side profile view, second year coloration plumage, closeup of head, snowflakes visible on feathers. Immature coloration showing white speckling on feathers.
Willet on sand.
Red tailed tropic bird.
Sandhill cranes in flight, silhouetted against a richly colored evening sky. A composite of two photographs taken moments apart, combined digitally.
Sandhill cranes fly across a crescent moon. A composite image formed from two photographs, taken a few moments apart, at sunset, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
Burrowing owl (Western North American race hypugaea). This 10-inch-tall burrowing owl is standing besides its burrow. These burrows are usually created by squirrels, prairie dogs, or other rodents and even turtles, and only rarely dug by the owl itself.
Snow geese blast off. After resting and preening on water, snow geese are startled by a coyote, hawk or just wind and take off en masse by the thousands. As many as 50,000 snow geese are found at Bosque del Apache NWR at times, stopping at the refuge during their winter migration along the Rio Grande River.
Snow geese in flight.
Sandhill cranes in flight, silhouetted against a richly colored evening sky. A composite of two photographs taken moments apart, combined digitally.
Sandhill cranes in flight in early morning light.
Snow geese at sunrise. Thousands of wintering snow geese take to the sky in predawn light in Bosque del Apache's famous ""blast off"". The flock can be as large as 20,000 geese or more. Long time exposure creates blurring among the geese.
Double-crested cormorant
Sandhill cranes, flying across a colorful sunset sky, blur wings due to long time exposure.
Brown pelican portrait, displaying winter breeding plumage with distinctive dark brown nape, yellow head feathers and red gular throat pouch
Snow goose in flight.
Snow geese gather in massive flocks over water, taking off and landing in synchrony.
Snow geese in flight, wings are blurred in long time exposure as they are flying.
Great blue heron in flight.
White pelican, breeding adult with fibrous plate on upper mandible of bill, Batiquitos Lagoon.
Brown booby.
A California brown pelican entangled in a plastic bag which is wrapped around its neck. This unfortunate pelican probably became entangled in the bag by mistaking the floating plastic for food and diving on it, spearing it in such a way that the bag has lodged around the pelican's neck. Plastic bags kill and injure untold numbers of marine animals each year.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Cormorants rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants.
Brandt's cormorant in early morning golden sunrise light, on the Monterey breakwater rocks.
Brandt's cormorant in flight over ocean, early morning.
A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-704, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The ""C"" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks.
A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-520, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The ""C"" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks.
A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-704, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The ""C"" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks.
A bull sea lion shows a brand burned into its hide by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, to monitor it from season to season as it travels between California, Oregon and Washington. Some California sea lions, such as this one C-704, prey upon migrating salmon that gather in the downstream waters and fish ladders of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. The ""C"" in its brand denotes Columbia River. These sea lions also form bachelor colonies that haul out on public docks in Astoria's East Mooring Basin and elsewhere, where they can damage or even sink docks.
California brown pelican opening its large beak.
Brandt's cormorant.
Brandts cormorant spreads its wings wide as it slows before landing on seacliffs alongside California brown pelicans.
Gambel's quail, male.
Brandts cormorant.
Cormorants rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants.
Cormorants rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants.
Cormorant rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants.
Cormorant rest on sandstone seacliffs above the ocean. Likely Brandts and double-crested cormorants.
Brandts cormorant spreads its wings wide as it slows before landing on seacliffs alongside California brown pelicans.
Gambel's quail, chicks and female.
Northern shoveler, adult nonbreeding plumage, Anas clypeata, San Diego.
Brown-headed cowbird, male.
Brandts cormorant.
Mexican jay.
Swallow-tailed gull.
Black-headed grosbeak, female.
Pyrrhuloxia, male.
Gambel's quail, chicks.
Brandts cormorant spreads its wings wide as it slows before landing on seacliffs alongside California brown pelicans.