Elk and North American wildlife
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Prairie Creek Redwood State Park, Orick, CA
3隻Elk公鹿在草原上覓食, 我猜是3兄弟? 有兩隻性情看起來比較易怒, 動不動就追著相互牴角, 另一隻倒是比較溫馴, 自在地躲在較遠處一邊覓食一邊遊蕩!!022216
We have returned from our travels and it was truly a "photo feast". I came back with over 3000 images so it will be a long editing process. I will post a few at a time as I get them sorted and filed.
There were several elk herds in the park; the following images are of two different herds at varying elevations.
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Second in my series of North American elk subspecies.
This is the Manitoban Elk. Photographed at a small park in the hamlet of Waskesiu Lake in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan. Manitoban Elk are found in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This is the subspecies that was used to “reintroduce” elk in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.
North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) bull grazing in the grassy meadows trying to replenish the body fat reserves depleted during the rut or breeding season in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
23 November, 2016.
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I love how the light catches the detail of the bull's antlers in this image. It was late afternoon and he and his harem were really close to where I was shooting (or was it the other way around?) so I was able to isolate him against the distant background. Captured in Rocky Mountain National Park. I also love the eye contact.
Have a great week and thanks for your views and comments!
A Tule Elk bull, cow and youngster on a foggy morning near the San Luis Reservoir in California.
From the National Park Service:
" The tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) is one of two subspecies of elk native to California. Its numbers were severely reduced in the mid-1800s, primarily due to uncontrolled market hunting and displacement by cattle. By some accounts, fewer than thirty remained in a single herd near Bakersfield in the mid-1870s. A conservation minded cattle rancher named Henry Miller had the foresight to preserve this last isolated group discovered on his ranch in 1874. Until this discovery, tule elk were thought to be extinct. All of the estimated 5,700 tule elk present in twenty-two herds across California (as of 2020) were derived from this small remnant herd, thanks to his initial efforts."
Thanks Henry!
After many visits to Elk Island National Park, I finally caught an Elk. This was taken shortly after sun-up. It was just below freezing and that is frost on the Elk.
heute am 22.2.22 haben sich sicher wieder viele getraut…
diesen Brautstauß habe ich in Venedig entdeckt
We spotted this guy strutting his stuff surrounded by about 20 ladies as we were heading home from a short get away.
Mineral County Colorado
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North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) bull browsing on a small shrub along the highway in Jasper National park, Alberta,
Canada.
23 November, 2016.
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North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) or "wapiti" bull tending to an itch on its backside while grazing along the highway in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
23 November, 2016.
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I spent a couple of hours photographing elk, but of all the photos I took, it is this one that I like this one the best. He has a majestic pose, and I like the tiny snow covered tress surrounding the elk.
A Rocky Mountain elk in the Wichita Mountains of SW Oklahoma. The elk were moving early this morning. Saw many we couldn't photo and a few we did. The Wichitas are such a treasure! Our beautiful world being passed on.
A bull Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus canadensis nelsoni) walks near tteo cow elk at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Early European settlers in North America called this animal an "elk" which is a word usually used in Europe for a moose. This causes some cofusion among some European visitors. The other name used for elk is wapiti which is a Shawnee word which means "white rumped deer" or "white deer". There are 3 subspecies of elaphus recognized currently in the United States. The Rocky Mountain Elk have the largest population and the widest distribution. To make things even more confusing, i>Cervus elaphus has also been called Cervus canadensis and that name is still in use by some.
this is the largest bull elk I have ever seen, he was massive with a large harem of cows and very aggressive in fighting/chasing off satellite bulls.....
between breeding and fighting activity bulls will loose twenty percent of their body weight going into a critical winter period where the fight to survive begins....
North American Elk (Cervus canadensis) bull skulking through the evergreen trees in search of stray cows from his harem in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada.
19 September, 2016.
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