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The bull is up unable to stand the constant biting and buzzing of the bugs any longer. He soon rolled in his dusty wallow again to help fend them off. But this only does so for a short time. Danged bugs.....
Bison cows and calves (and a few yearlings) on a hillside in Custer State Park, South Dakota.
The conclusion of my ungulate series.
Plains Bison (Bison bison) in the aspen woods in Elk Island National Park about 45 minutes east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
14 November, 2015.
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Odd composition for me since it was shot without moving the tripod. Misty morning in Yellowstone NP with bison in the foreground but in the wrong place. So I moved them😊
I went to photograph some bison in front of the Tetons........Then luckily got photobombed by a big storm. This was an amazing late afternoon storm that just appeared and disappeared very quickly. The rain did not reach me, so I had a great chance to photograph the entire scene. 9-22-2020 Grand Teton National Park.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8 lens at 75mm, 1/60sec, ISO64, F11 prints available
an european bison bull strolls along the edges of Bialowieza NP forest in the search of food, north eastern poland.
This photo was taken from Yellowstone National Park. In this dreamscape we found lots of bisons.
The American bison are found only in North America and is the more numerous. Although commonly known as a buffalo in the United States and Canada.
Yellowstone National Park, USA
November, 2016
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Plains Bison (Bison bison) in the aspen woods in Elk Island National Park about 45 minutes east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
14 November, 2015.
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Another beloved animal I got to enjoy on my Fall 2022 epic road trip. Bison always amaze me. They weigh a ton, yet they are powerful and agile getting around on those teeny lower legs. It was a bit surprising to find a young "red dog" still nursing here in Fall. What do I know.
Here's a memorable photo from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwest Oklahoma: this massive plains bison bull commands the prairie like a bygone king. He's one of the largest bulls I've seen. His head is enormous, and that unmistakable hump rises like a mountain itself.
Standing against a green spring prairie dotted with wildflowers, he represents the genetics that have roamed these ancient mountains for centuries. A true American icon.
Our beautiful world being passed on.
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Up close and personal with an icy bison on a frigid Yellowstone morning. I must admit, that the wild look in his eye gave me pause for concern. What this hiker fears most, is a lonely buffalo.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
North American Bison or Plains Bison (Bison bison) roaming the aspen parkland woods of Elk Island National Park due east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
10 October, 2018.
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The purpose of our most recent excursion was to witness the bison rut, a first for us, and to pay a visit to some prime moose habitat, not exactly a first for us. The moosing was good…more on that later.
Witnessing the bison rut was right up there with the most fun wildlife experiences we’ve ever had. The activity was frenetic and wasn’t limited to the big bad bulls. Younger bulls, and even this year’s calves were caught up in the frenzy.
I’ll be sharing some of the fun and sometimes surprising behaviors over the next few days...starting with this bellowing bull. During the rut, the deep bellows of bull bison can be heard across the landscape, and it's nearly constant.
Location note:
We had hoped to see the bison rut in Badlands National Park. However, the Badlands herd apparently prefers to do their rutting in private. We only saw a few dispersed bulls there (which I refer to as "banished bulls"). Fortunately, the herds in nearby Custer State Park and Wind Cave National Park didn't mind performing in public and very close to some of the roads in the parks. By far, most of the best photo ops occurred in Wind Cave NP, where this one was captured.
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
USA
This bison is from the Central Interior herd, which numbers approximately 1400 individuals, and can be found along the Madison River valley where it was photographed.
The Yellowstone Park bison herd in Yellowstone National Park is probably the oldest and largest public bison herd in the United States. The Yellowstone Park bison herd was estimated in 2015 to be 4,900 bison The bison in the Yellowstone Park bison herd are American bison of the Plains bison subspecies. Yellowstone National Park may be the only location in the United States where free-ranging bison were never extirpated, since they continued to exist in the wild and were not re-introduced, as has been done in most other bison herd areas.
The Central Interior herd, which numbers approximately 1400 individuals, ranges from the Madison River valley into the Hayden Valley and Upper and Lower Geyser Basins.
American Bison once numbered in the millions, perhaps between 25 million and 60 million by some estimates, and they were possibly the most numerous large land animal on earth. However, by the late 1880s, they had been hunted to near extinction throughout North America. It appears that the Yellowstone Park bison herd was the last free-ranging bison herd in the United States and the only place where bison were not extirpated in the United States. The Yellowstone Park bison herd is descended from a remnant population of 23 individual bison that survived the mass slaughter of the 19th century by hiding out in the Pelican Valley of Yellowstone Park. In 1902, a captive herd of 21 Goodnight plains bison was introduced to the park and then moved to the Lamar Valley and managed as livestock until the 1960s, when a policy of natural regulation was adopted by the park.
American bison live in river valleys, and on prairies and plains. Their typical habitat is open or semi-open grasslands, as well as sagebrush, semi-arid lands and scrublands. Some lightly wooded areas are also known historically to have supported bison. Bison will also graze in hilly or mountainous areas where the slopes are not steep. Though bison are not particularly known as high altitude animals, members of the Yellowstone Park bison herd are frequently found at elevations above 8,000 feet and a herd started with founder animals from Yellowstone, the Henry Mountains bison herd, is found on the plains around the Henry Mountains, Utah, as well as in mountain valleys of the Henry Mountains to an altitude of 10,000 feet.
These two bison were going head to head in combat. After a few minutes, they turned from each other and started to forage on the grasses.
This bison calf wanted to feed but the mom kept pushing the calf away! I think she just wanted to eat in peace for awhile! Finally she gave in and let the calf feed!!! This photo was taken in Yellowstone national park!