The Emperor Claudius
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The Emperor Goose is found mainly in coastal Alaska.
This one was seen in the Toledo Zoo, Toledo, Ohio.
Close-up of a female Emperor dragonfly ovipositing on a pond in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Females lay eggs alone, ovipositing directly into floating vegetation.
A species I have been trying to photograph for years. Normally they don't stay still but this male posed for some images. Taken on Big Moor, Derbyshire this evening.
Pleased to get a flight shot.
It was great just watching this Dragonfly as well as trying to photograph it, I watched as it chased a Butterfly which only escaped by diving into the grass, another one didn't have the chance to as it was over the water and after a frantic aerial duel it just managed to evade it, great to watch!
The purple emperor like it salty + cheese is another option to lure them + Aparatura Iris + Leinawald - Forest 2021
It's rare to find this species perched but I noticed this individual settle in a small Birch sapling and managed to approach close enough to get an image before it flew off again. It's a shame that the background is a bit messy.
Awful framing and a worse background but the colours and pattern on the wings of this spectacular butterfly hopefully make up for the deficiencies of the photographic technique...
I went out hoping to photograph Black Darters on heather and got lucky with this Emperor that was warming up in the morning sunshine. In my experience, this species hardly ever perches in clear view so I was really pleased to get a rare close view on this occasion.
Emperor Penguins, Snow Hill Island, Antarctica.
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Goslar/Harz GER
The Imperial Palace of Goslar (German: Kaiserpfalz Goslar) is a historical building complex at the foot of the Rammelsberg hill in the south of the town of Goslar north of the Harz mountains, central Germany. It covers an area of about 340 by 180 metres. The palace grounds originally included the Kaiserhaus, the old collegiate church of St. Simon and St. Jude, the palace chapel of St. Ulrich and the Church of Our Lady (Liebfrauenkirche). The Kaiserhaus, which has been extensively restored in the late 19th century, was a favourite imperial residence, especially for the Salian emperors.
Lesser purple emperor (Apatura ilia) butterfly drinking water from mud.
Mieniak strużnik (Apatura ilia) pijący wodę z błota.
At the end of a hike, I suddenly noticed this wonderful butterfly on the path in front of me! I managed to take several pictures. Later I discovered that it was the Purple emperor (Apatura iris), a rare, protected woodland butterfly, which is on the red list of endangered butterflies in Switzerland (where I saw it). I also found out that "The adults are extremely elusive and occur at low densities over large areas".
This is a male specimen, whose blue-purple sheen is caused by iridescence (refection of the sunlight), which is why it only seems blue on one wing in my photo.