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Animals

Below are some of my favorite images of Animals ( Mammals , Birds , Reptiles , Fish , Insects ) which I suggest as fine art to buy for your home or office. Click any image to see more from that area:

Left: Humans are the most advanced animal. We met these children near Samrung & New Bridge, between Tolka and Chomrong, a Gurung tribal area in the Annapurna Range of Nepal Himalaya mountains, on the trail to the Annapurna Sanctuary.

Mammals:

Above: Wild guanacos (related to camels) graze beneath Los Cuernos of Paine ("The Horns", 8,530 feet / 2,600 meters), which are comprised of a pinkish-white granodiorite intrusion formed 12 million years ago, topped with an older dark crumbly sedimentary rock, and exposed by glaciation and freeze-thaw erosion. Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: America’s only mainland rookery for the Steller sea lion is located 10 miles north of Florence, Oregon (see more Steller sea lions on my Alaska page). Fall and winter offer the best times to see (and smell) these animals. In 1990, the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. I photographed this image at a highway pullout 100 yards north of the Sea Lion Caves attraction. At the Sea Lion Caves (open daily; $8 in 2006), you can ride an elevator down to America’s largest sea cave and more closely view & smell these marine mammals.

Wild guanacos, Torres del Paine National Park, CHILE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Sea lion. Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: The tassles on this friendly llama mark who owns the llama, as it grazes on communally-managed land in the Cordillera Raura area. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Bison (or American Buffalo) in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming:

Below: Young alpaca shorn with a mohawk, PERU. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A horse grazes beneath Cerro Fitz Roy (3405 meters / 11,170 feet). El Chalten, ARGENTINA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A bicyclist stops to pet a horse, with nice views of the Cascade Mountains near Sultan, Washington. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Female moose with two calves at Eagle Creek Campground, near Anchorage, Alaska. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Kangaroo mother with joey at our campsite in Flinders Chase National Park on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, AUSTRALIA. This is a great place to view kangaroos, brushtail possums, birds, echidnas, and other wildlife. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Wombat, Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania, Australia

Above: Wombats are burrowing grass eaters. Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Tasmanian Devil, Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: An adult female Capra Ibex (or Steinbok) walks near a red trail marker and yellow lichen. Above Chamonix, FRANCE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: The historic Dog Line Memorial on Eaglehawk Neck in Tasman National Park on the Tasman Peninsula. Tasmania, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: We visited a nice koala conservation park on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, for close views of cute but sleepy koalas. AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: This curious Common Brushtail Possum climbed atop our camper one night, in the campground at Flinders Chase National Park, one of the best places to view wildlife in Australia. Kangaroo Island, South Australia. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Young mountain goat, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Adult mountain goat at a salt lick, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Mountain goat, Bearhat Mountain, Hidden Lake. Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Mountain goat at a salt lick. Kootenay National Park, BC, Canada

Left: adult mountain goat at a salt lick, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below right: Closer view of mountain goat. Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Mountain goat, Hidden Lake, Glacier National Park

Below: Mountain Goat and Mount Daniel. Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area, Washington. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Mountain Goat. Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Washington. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Feisty young Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep climb a road cut, on the Bow Valley Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Wild rocky mountain bighorn sheep at Radium Hot Springs, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A bull elk looks for females in fall rutting season at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

(Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A hairy goat on the island of Crete, GREECE.

Left: Bottle-nosed dolphins surf the compression bow wave of our ship, offshore from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Dolphins are actually mammals which lived on land at some point in their evolution but they later adapted completely to the sea.

(Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below right: A captve coati (coatimundi), in Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona.

Below: Water buffalo at Phewa Lake (or Fewa Tal), in Pokhara, Nepal.

Birds:

Left: I photographed this Danfe (or Danphe) Pheasant, Nepal's National Bird, north of Namche Bazaar, in Sagarmatha National Park, in the Khumbu District of Nepal.

Below: Partridges: These birds are at 13,000 feet in the Dudh Khoshi river valley in the Himalaya mountains of Nepal. Partridges are a gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.

Left: Yellow Crowned Night Heron. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A Great Blue Heron rests in the forest on Fidalgo Island, in Deception Pass State Park, Washington, USA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Blue-footed Booby male on left and female on right. A dark pigment surrounding the female's eye pupil makes it look larger than the male's. Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR.

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Below: Masked Boobies. Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. [Published full-page in Eagle-Eye Tours Travel Schedule 2006.]

Above: Masked Boobies groom each other as a pair bonding ritual. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Brown Pelican, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Blue-footed Booby on nest with two chicks. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Blue-footed Booby. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Blue-footed Booby. Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Magnificent Frigatebirds nesting. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Vermilion Flycatcher on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Magnificent Frigatebird male flying with his bright red pouch displayed. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above right: Affectionate Swallowtail Gull pair, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, South America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Short-eared owl on Kalalau Beach, Kauai. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above right: Cattle egret, seen here on Kauai, in the State of Hawaii (not native or endemic to Hawaii). (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A dove on Kauai. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A wild nene, a goose native to the State of Hawaii, walks in Haleakala National Park, Mauai. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Sacred Ibis, a bird commonly seen in Sydney, AUSTRALIA. (One of the many pleasures of Sydney is the abundant population of unusual flying creatures, including big fruit bats (flying foxes) in the downtown Royal Botanic Garden.) (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: The kookaburra (a big kingfisher) has a wonderfully raucous call that can sound like human laughter. My wife Carol watched one kookaburra swoop down, grab a pork chop off a camper's plate, and fly back up into a tree! Grampians (Gariwerd) National Park, Victoria, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Three pelicans preening and grooming, on Coalmine Beach, Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Pelican on peaceful Coalmine Beach, Walpole-Nornalup National Park, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Wild Cape Barren Geese have been introduced to Maria Island National Park to help ensure their survival as a species. Tasmania, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Cape Barren Geese, Maria Island, Tasmania, Australia

Left: Andean Goose, Torres del Paine NP, CHILE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below right: a mated pair of Andean Geese, Torres del Paine NP, CHILE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Chinstrap penguin, Aicho Island, ANTARCTICA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Gentoo Penguin, ANTARCTICA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Gentoo penguin colony, in ANTARCTICA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Photographing Gentoo Penguin chicks, Aicho Island, ANTARCTICA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A wild turkey in Zion National Park, Utah.

Below: A fighting cock in Llamac Village, PERU. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Wild cormorant. San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, BELIZE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: The call of the Australian magpie is full of fascinating bells and whistles, and is found throughout most of Australia. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A rare King Vulture, Belize Zoo. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Jabiru stork, largest flying bird in the Americas, 4-5 feet tall, wingspan 9-12 feet. Belize Zoo, BELIZE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Kea, alpine parrot, NEW ZEALAND. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Parrot, in the Belize Zoo, BELIZE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A rarely seen (and rarely photographed) grey morph of the Chilean hawk, or Peuquito (Accipiter chilensis) perched on a limb of Nothofagus, in the forest near Hostaria Balmaceda, on the "Seno de Ultima Esperanza" (Sound of Last Hope), 5 hours by boat from Puerto Natales, CHILE.

(Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A captive Barn Owl, in the Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona.

Left: Female ptarmigan (or snow grouse) camouflaged in the alpine rocks, NORWAY. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Ptarmigan, in the Rocky Mountains, CANADA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Ptarmigan. Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site

Reptiles & Amphibians:

Left: Galápagos Tortoise. Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. [Published in Wilderness Travel 1990 Catalog.] (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Frog in gorge near Micro Papingo village, Zagoria, Epiros, Greece. (Frogs are amphibians.) (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Blue Tongued Skink, Bonorong Wildlife Park, Tasmania, AUSTRALIA. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Galápagos Land Iguana, Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Above: Sea iguana in breeding colors, Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Spines of a sea iguana in breeding colors, Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Sea Iguana head closeup, Galápagos Islands, ECUADOR. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

A male iguana (above left) has a spiked crest, and the female (below) does not, MEXICO. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Fish & Sealife:

Left: Clown Fish are immune to the stings of sea anemones. The Sydney Aquarium is worth visiting for an overview of sea and freshwater life found around Australia. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

A harmless nurse shark swims in the beautiful turquoise Caribbean Sea, off Belize.

Above: A harmless nurse shark swims at Shark & Ray Alley in the beautiful turquoise Hol Chan Marine Reserve, in the Caribbean Sea. The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System is the second longest coral reef in the world, and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. BELIZE. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Seattle Aquarium: This tropical fish eats coral. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A ray in Shark & Ray Alley, Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Belize Barrier Reef. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Starfish come in red, orange, purple and magenta colors at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington. Starfish or sea stars are any echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea. The "star fish" usually hunt for shelled animals such as oysters and clams. They have two stomachs, one used for digestion, and the other stomach can be extended outward to engulf and digest prey much larger than its mouth. Most starfish have 5 arms, which can be regenerated if lost.

Below: The Giant Pacific Octopus (Octopus dofleini) can be found along the Pacific coast from Alaska to southern California. This closeup view of octopus leg suckers is at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington.

Left: Sea nettles (Chrysaora species) swim through sea water in a blue tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in the town of Newport, Oregon. Jellyfish are marine invertebrates belonging to the class Scyphozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. Although they are commonly named "jellyfish", jellies are not fish, since fish are vertebrate animals.

Below: Starfish at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in the town of Newport, Oregon.

Left: A crab, at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in the town of Newport, Oregon.

Below: Half of an orange and black starfish reflects in the surface water of a tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in the town of Newport, Oregon.

Below: Ripples on the water surface distorts this view of an orange and red sea anemone at the Seattle Aquarium, Washington.

Insects:

Left: An orange, black and yellow butterfly in Nepal, mating with another.

Below: A black and yellow butterfly in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal.

Left: A yellow moth held by hand, found at Chomrong (alternative spellings Chhomrong, Chhomrung, Chhumro; 7250 feet elevation) in the Annapurna Conservation Area of Nepal.

Below: Metallic green beetle on a thistle, Aoos River Valley, Zagoria, Epiros, Greece. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Pretty blue butterflies on Church Mountain, North Cascade Mountains, Washington. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Swallowtail Butterfly on Mount Dickerman, Washington. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A hopping insect (cricket?) eats one red poppy and a bee pollinates another, in Vikos Gorge, Vikos-Aoos National Park, Zagoria, Epiros, Greece. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: Blue Morpho butterfly on a Panama hat. Chaa Creek Butterfly Breeding Center. Belize offers a startling variety of tropical life. BELIZE, Central America. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A black and red insect shares this purple thistle with a moth in Switzerland. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: A hoverfly on a daisy, on Mount Dickerman, Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. Hoverflies are expert hoverers, and they mimic the appearance of wasps & bees as a defense. Syrphid, flower, or hover flies are in the Family: Syrphidae, of which there are 1000 species in North America (in the Order: Diptera, Class: Insecta, Phylum: Arthropoda). Hoverfly larvae commonly eat aphids and other small, soft-bodied insects. Adult hoverflies feed on pollen, nectar, and honeydew, and are true flies with only two wings instead of four which most insects have (such as bees & wasps). (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: A camouflaged Crab Spider (Family Thomisidae) kills a bee in this thistle flower. Crab Spiders can change their coloration to match the flower within 24 hours, and are widespread in Washington and other states. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Left: This green spider is perfectly camouflaged to hide in the center of this datura flower blossom. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. (Click the image to see more from the area.)

Below: Three blue butterflies in the alpine zone of Mount Robson Provincial Park of British Columbia, Canada.

Animals

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