Wildlife Photography

[BigBlueHen53]

Elk

Caribou.
Comparing to @Melky's photo, what I'm seeing is the large, backward arch of the antlers. Also the lack of the dark cape, which may just mean the animal is female. I could certainly be wrong. I often am!

 

[mdees88]

Im sorry the pdf image loaded and mine you have to download to see. I will try to load jpeg. I think you will be able to see them without downloading then. It is a turtle coming out of his shell, a groundhog, a tom turkey below the flag, and elk in Alaska.

Nice images! Thanks for posting. That last one looks like a caribou. You can tell by his "shovel" that sticks out. Elk do not have those...

 

[BDutch]

Robin.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Personally I’d call it an elk too

wrong antler stack for an elk. Caribou/reindeer.

 

[Offshoreorca]

T049A1 (Noah) a marine mammal killer whale (Orcinus orca) travelling with his brother along the coast of Spieden Island in the Salish Sea, Washington, USA. This photo was taken on April 26th, 2024.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching off San Cristóbal Island in the Galapagos - with two remora fish attached to it!

 

[azurbanclucker]

T049A1 (Noah) a marine mammal killer whale (Orcinus orca) travelling with his brother along the coast of Spieden Island in the Salish Sea, Washington, USA. This photo was taken on April 26th, 2024.

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Lovely.

I have soooo many questions! Not about the photo, more about your orca knowledge.

How can you ID this as Noah from just the dorsal and part of the body markings? You have to have been doing this for a while? Or are you googling furiously to ID them after you get shots?

How often do you spend time with the transients?

Do you branch out into other cetaceans and marine mammals or are orcas your thing?

Is this a hobby/obsession or a job/obsession?

 

[Offshoreorca]

Lovely.

I have soooo many questions! Not about the photo, more about your orca knowledge.

How can you ID this as Noah from just the dorsal and part of the body markings? You have to have been doing this for a while? Or are you googling furiously to ID them after you get shots?

How often do you spend time with the transients?

Do you branch out into other cetaceans and marine mammals or are orcas your thing?

Is this a hobby/obsession or a job/obsession?

Hi!

All orcas can be ID'd based on the notches on their dorsal fin and saddle patch shape/marks! I am marine mammal scientist, specializing in long-finned pilot whales and northern bottlenose whales, but do enjoy seeing all species - so this is old hat for me! This particular population of orcas is only just under 400 individuals, so it's not too hard to learn their ID's, where as the pilots I work with are about 4000 individuals and it's much harder! I see this particular population of orcas a few times a year (more now that I am back living on the west coast after a decade in Eastern Canada).

 

[azurbanclucker]

Those are some great shots. Thanks for sharing them with us.

(adds a reminder to get an underwater camera housing to his list of vacation prep)

 

[BDutch]

Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching off San Cristóbal Island in the Galapagos - with two remora fish attached to it!

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I thought members are supposed to post their own pictures. Not pictures found on the internet?