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This is an extensive Portfolio presentation of the Sepulveda Wildlife Refuge.
In the lowest part of the San Fernando Valley, where the 405 and 101 freeways meet,
this wetlands refuge is a major stop over for migrating birds, and is home to a number
of species that live here year-round. A large number of the images in this page have
not been posted elsewhere. Some images are in the Wildlife Studies section, and
some are from other pages. All images have been re-processed for this page.
click an image to open a larger version
Use your back button to return to this page
Composites will open in a second window
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
Images can be found in the following Galleries (Direct Links)
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Allen’s Male HS3406
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Allen’s Male HS3380
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Allen’s Male HS3268
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Allen’s Male HS3447
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Allen’s Male HS3457
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Allen’s Hummer X4221
Probably the same guy, in the same place, two months later with a different camera.
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Allen’s Male Color Display XXL
click image to open 1365 x 1200 version
Available as an XXL Composite (4550 x 4000)
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Anna’s Male Hummer 8534
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Anna’s Male HS2794
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Anna’s Male HS2843
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Anna’s Male HS2877
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Anna’s Male HS2887
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Anna’s Male Color Display XLo
click image to open 1220 x 1210 version
Available as an XL Composite (3050 x 3025)
XLo is the 6-image version seen above.
A 3-image XL version (3610 x 1800) is below:
Click here to preview a 1284 x 640 version of
Anna’s Male Color Display XL
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Anna’s Hummingbird SXL
click image to open 1437 x 1058 version
Available as an SXL Composite (3830 x 2820)
Many more images and Composites of Hummingbirds are
available on the Descanso Gardens Wildlife page, Gardens Section
and the Birds in Flight page, Wildlife Studies Section.
(the text links will open in a new window)
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Black-Crowned Night Heron Flight X0126
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BCN Heron juvenile flight X5667
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Black Phoebe 7458
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Black Phoebe X5334
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Black Phoebe X4129
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Black Phoebe X3207
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Black Phoebe X4127
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Black Phoebe X3046
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Black Phoebe X3044
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
A list of Direct Links to Galleries containing each image is at the top and bottom of this page.
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Bullocks Oriole X4125
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Bathing Grackle XL
click image to open 900 x 1260 version
Available as an XL Composite (2000 x 2800)
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California Towhee 7908
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Canada Goose Landing X1158
A late afternoon landing.
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Canada Geese 1132
A sunset fly-by.
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Canada Goose X1167
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Canada Goose X1147
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Canada Goose X1150
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Canada Geese and Goslings X1168
This is a highly detailed image (800kb)
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Canada Goose Portrait X0996
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Coot Portrait X0507
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Coot Portrait X0512
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Coot Portrait X0510
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Coot 7480
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Coot 6805
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Juvenile Coot 6740
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Juvenile Coot 6656
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Coot X5138
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Coots of All Ages XXL
click image to open 155 x 1200 version
Available as an XXL Composite (4938 x 5050)
Also available as an SXXL Framed Composite (6479 x 6670)
click here for a 1166 x 1200 preview
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
A list of Direct Links to Galleries containing each image is at the top and bottom of this page.
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Cormorant X0104
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Cormorant 7669
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Cormorant head-on HS2938
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Cormorant Flight X5499
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Cormorant Flight X5086
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Cormorant Flight X5089
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Cormorant Flight X5094
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Cormorant Flight X5250
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Cormorant Flight X5508
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Cormorant Flight X5086, 5089, 5094 SXL
click image to open 1200 x 1325 version
Available as an SXL Composite (3216 x 3550)
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Cormorant Takeoff SXXL
click image to open 1993 x 570 version
Available as an SXXL Composite (8050 x 2300)
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Cormorant Flight SWR
click image to open 1808 x 863 version
Available as a XXL Composite (4820 x 2300)
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Cormorant with Prey HS2986
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Cormorant with Prey HS3009
Shot in early-spring when red algae was blooming.
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Cormorant with Prey SXL
click image to open 1459 x 990 version
Available as an SXL Composite (4420 x 3000)
Many more images and Composites of Cormorants are
available on the Cormorants page, Wildlife Studies Section
(the text link will open in a new window)
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Great Blue Heron Sunset Flight X5661
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Great Blue Heron X5374
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Great Blue Flasher X0466
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Great Blue Flasher X0530
This is a high detail image (780kb)
Did you see the look on his face
in the image at left (image X0466)?
This guy is dangerous. Corral your kids.
Be afraid... be very afraid.
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Great Blue Heron X0911
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
A list of Direct Links to Galleries containing each image is at the top and bottom of this page.
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Great Egret X5358
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Snowy Egret X5399
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Note the differences in beak color, color of the lores (area between beak and eyes)
leg color and the feet. The Great Egret is also about twice the size of the Snowy Egret.
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Great Egret Flight X7421
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Great Egret Flight X7426
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Great Egret Flight X7432
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Great Egret Flight X7433
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Great Egret Flight X7434
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Great Egret Flight X7443
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Great Egret Flight XXL
click image to open 1500 x 1032 version
Available as an XXL Composite (5798 x 3990)
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Great Egret Flight SXXL
click image to open 1684 x 750 version
Available as an SXXL Composite (8702 x 3875)
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Juvenile Southwest Red Tail X7501
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Juvenile Southwest Red Tail X7503
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Juvenile Southwest Red Tail X7508
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Juvenile Southwest Red Tail X7518, 7519
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Juvenile Southwest Red Tail XXL
click image to open 1500 x 800 version
Available as an XXL Composite (6040 x 3220)
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Juvenile Southwest Red Tail SXL
click image to open 1500 x 996 version
Available as an SXL Composite (4288 x 2848)
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Rufous Morph Red Tail Intermediate Juvenile X2781
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Rufous Morph Red Tail
Intermediate Juvenile X2796
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Rufous Morph Red Tail
Intermediate Juvenile X2805
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Rufous Morph Red Tail Intermediate Juvenile X2808
Many more images and Composites of Raptors are
available on the Raptors page, Wildlife Studies Section
(the text link will open in a new window)
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Kestrel HS3204
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Kestrel HS3234
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Kestrel HS3121
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Kestrel HS3114
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Kestrel SXL
click image to open 1536 x 776 version
Available as an SXL Composite (4654 x 2350)
Many more images and Composites of Raptors are
available on the Raptors page, Wildlife Studies Section
(the text link will open in a new window)
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
A list of Direct Links to Galleries containing each image is at the top and bottom of this page.
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Kingfisher X5344
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Kingfisher X5569
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Mallard X0517
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Mallard X0520
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Osprey hunting X5203
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Osprey hunting X5206
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Osprey 0403
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Pied-Bill Grebe X5147
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Pied-Bill Grebe 7517
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Pied-Bill Grebe HS3064
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Pied-Bill Grebe X1117
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Pied-Bill Grebe X5035
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Pied-Bill Grebe HS3096
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Pied-Bill Grebe X1083
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Pied-Bill Grebe display XL
click image to open 1080 x 1170 version
Available as an XL Composite (2400 x 2600)
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Pied-Bill Grebe XXL
click image to open 1485 x 1035 version
Available as an XXL Signed Composite (4950 x 3450)
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Pied-Bill Grebe SXL
click image to open 1350 x 1122 version
Available as an SXL Signed Composite (4090 x 3400)
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Rabbit HS1533
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Rabbit HS1536
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4089
An extremely challenging subject, the Red-Winged Blackbird is difficult to capture with
acceptable detail as it is often much darker than the background or other objects in the
scene. To achieve a correct exposure and still yield detail in the bird requires serious
attention both at the time the shot was taken, and even more important when the
shot is processed. I am displaying several shots of this bird as satisfactory
images taken in ambient light are rarely displayed for these reasons.
Most decent shots I have seen use flash to bring the detail out of
the bird, and often the flash destroys the character of the light.
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4111
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4113
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4148
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4123
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4164
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4167
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4168
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4222
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4233
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Red-Winged Blackbird X4224
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Red-Winged Blackbird XXL
click image to open 1072 x 1194 version
Available as a XXL Composite (4288 x 4773)
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
A list of Direct Links to Galleries containing each image is at the top and bottom of this page.
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Ruddy Duck Display X0210
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Ruddy Duck Display X0212
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Ruddy Duck juvenile HS1554
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Ruddy Duck X0159
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Ruddy Duck HS0277
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Ruddy Duck Display SXXL
click image to open 1257 x 1275 version
(title block increased in size for legibility)
Available as a SXXL Composite (8586 x 8400)
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Ruddy Duck Juvenile Display X0454
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Ruddy Duck Juvenile Display X0460
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Ruddy Duck Juvenile Display SXXL
click image to open 1331 x 1275 version
(title block increased in size for legibility)
Available as an SXXL Composite (8586 x 8000)
Also available as a four-image SXXL: top two, bottom two (8591 x 6000)
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Ruddy Duck Juveniles Landing XXL
click image to open 1500 x 1075 version
(title block increased in size for legibility)
Available as an XXL Signed Composite (6010 x 4210)
Many more images of Ruddy Ducks and numerous others are
available on the Ducks page, Wildlife Studies Section
(the text link will open in a new window)
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5401
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5416
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5455
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5456
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5442
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5443
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Snowy Egret Hunting X5465
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Snowy Egret Hunting Sequence SXXL
click image to open 1349 x 1124 version
Available as a SXXL Composite (8075 x 6725)
Many more images of Snowy Egrets and other Egrets and Herons are
available on the Egrets and Herons page, Wildlife Studies Section
(the text link will open in a new window)
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Snowy Egret Hunting XXXL
click for 1500 x 996 version
Available as a XXXL Composite (11290 x 7500)
20 of the best shots in the sequence, assembled into a composite.
Both this composite and the one above are available digitally-framed.
Click this text link for a 1503 x 1266 of the framed 16-shot composite.
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
A list of Direct Links to Galleries containing each image is at the top and bottom of this page.
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Squirrel X4171
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Turkey Vulture 7746
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Warbler HS6785
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Pelicans & Cormorants X5167
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White Pelican X5617
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White Pelican X5620
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White Pelican X5633
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White Pelican flight X5634
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White Pelicans Landing X5551
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White Pelicans X5565
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White Pelican X5373
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Pelican and Cormorants at sunset X7575
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White Pelicans SXXL
click image to open 1437 x 995 version
Available as a SXXL Composite (8600 x 5950)
Many more images and Composites of Pelicans are
available on the Pelicans page, Wildlife Studies Section
(the text link will open in a new window)
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White Tailed Kite X2919
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White Tailed Kite X3030
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White Tailed Kite X3051
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White Tailed Kites HS6888
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White Tailed Kite HS6889
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White Tailed Kite HS6869
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White Tailed Kites X3015
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White Tailed Kite Pointillism X3079
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White Tailed Kites X3107
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White Tailed Kites X3109
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White Tailed Kites X3111
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White Tailed Kite X3215
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White-Tailed Kite Hover SXL
click image to open 1554 x 750 version
Available as a SXL Composite (3107 x 1500)
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White-Tailed Kites Surrealistic Landing SXL
click image to open 1527 x 684 version
Available as a SXL Composite (4240 x 1900)
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White-Tailed Kites FlyBy SXL
click image to open 1208 x 1208 version
Available as a SXL Composite (3020 x 3020)
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Images on this page are in a number of different Galleries on the Photoshelter website.
The Banner below leads to the Gallery Collections page where a Gallery can be selected.
Images can be found in the following Galleries (Direct Links)
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