Category: Wildlife photo
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Snow monkeys in the mountain
Those Japanese macaques should have suffered long ago from the violent assaults of the harsh winters from Hokkaido; They should have disappeared from these regions hostile to the small cercopithécidae (or “old world monkeys“). And still, they adapted. Specifically, they learned to warm themselves in the spa waters of always-warm springs created by the intense…
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Sika deer
Its latin name could not make it more nippon than that: Cervus nippon. Sika deer, Cerf sika (Cervus nippon)Hokkaido, Japan North island, January/February 2019.
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Mallard duck
Mallard, Canard colvert (Anas platyrhynchos)Hokkaido, Japan North island, January/February 2019.
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Atlantic Puffin
You’ve got to love the clown bird, the Atlantic puffin! Nice black and white plumage, but all the colors of the world on the bill and the eye. Serious and totally funky! Atlantic Puffin, Macareux moine (Fratercula arctica)Scotland, May 2018.
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Scottish birds
A few birds from all species, but all found in Scotland… Scotland, May 2018.
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Scotland: A fly in a flower
Scotland, May 2018.
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Northern Gannet
One of the most beautiful sea birds, long hunted by seamen, today protected but their colonies are still quite unusual. One of them is on Bass Rock. Northern Gannet, Fou de Bassan (Morus bassanus)Scotland, May 2018.
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Greylag goose
Greylag goose, Oie cendrée (Anser anser)Scotland, May 2018.
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Northern Fulmar
Northern Fulmar, Fulmar boréal (Fulmarus glacialis)Scotland, May 2018.