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Those Crickety Chirps Mean It’s Fall on the Chignik
Male Golden-crowned Kinglet – Chignik Lake, Sitka Spruce Grove, January 23, 2018Making our way along a bear trail I hacked open as it descends through a dense alder thicket toward creek bottom, we...
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Killers: Father and Daughter, Training Day
Killers: Father and Daughter, Training DayChignik Bay, Gulf of Alaska, May 6, 2018 The above photograph is of an adult male and a young female Orca. Killer Whales in the vernacular. Actually, not true...
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Incoming
IncomingTwice the male Orca swam beneath our small skiff, so near the hull we could see him plainly through the Alaska Gulf’s semi-clear water. Each time, he emerged on the other side very close,...
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Female Transient Orca with Seal against Aleutian Mountain Landscape
Female Transient Orca with Seal against Aleutian Mountain LandscapeTraining Day I wasn’t sure what to call this photograph, so I’ve gone with straight description. The Alaska Peninsula’s Aleutian...
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Teuri Island: The Place to be for Rhinoceros Auklets
Rhinoceros Auklet Breeding Grounds, Teuri IslandHokkaido, Japan, June 18, 2018 Not a lot appears to be going on in the above daytime photograph taken on Teuri Island’s cliff-lined northwest. The 2.1...
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Home with the Catch: Rhinoceros Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet returning at Dusk with a Catch of Sand Lances and SquidThe grayish-white protuberance on the bill – the horn that inspires the Rhinoceros Auklet’s name – is fluorescent and thus...
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The World’s Largest Owl is a Piscivore
Blakiston’s Fish OwlShiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan, July 23, 2018 With a wingspan ranging from about 5′ 10″ to 6′ 3″ (170 – 190 cm), Blakiston’s Fish Owls are generally regarded as the world’s...
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Ursus Arctos… In a Bamboo Forest?
Brown Bear in Bamboo, Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan, July 21, 2018 Ursus Arctos is a holarctic species represented by several subspecies throughout the Northern Hemisphere including the...
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Peacock Butterfly on Black-eyed Susans
Peacock Butterfly on Black-eyed SusanKushiro Shitsugen National Park, Hokkaido, Japan, July 29, 2018 Wherever you are, we hope your day is going well!
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Black Cap Jazz Singer
This beautiful bird is regrettably saddled with the name of the man credited with identifying him… a name with an apostrophe s… as though no one else ever knew this bird and that by “discovering” this...
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