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Male Ruffed Grouse - displaying with ruff up in mating display (different from drumming display)

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Male Ruffed Grouse - displaying with ruff up in mating display (different from drumming display).
Olympic National Park. Washington, USA. April.
Bonasa umbellus
Tom & Pat Leeson
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Blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, Mount

Blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus, Mount Maxwell Provincial Park, Salt Spring Island, Gulf Islands, British Columbia Date: 06/09/2007

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KA-598 Thresher / Foxtail Shark

KA-598
Thresher / Foxtail Shark
Distribution: Eastern & Western Atlantic / Central Pacific / Indo-west Pacific
Alopias vulpinus
Usually lives at depths over 200m & only sighted rarely - The Common Thresher Shark ranges in size from 16.5 to 20ft long - Feeds on Squid & Fish corraling them with its elongated tail / stunning them with slaps from it and catching them with its very sharp but small teeth - Decreasing in numbers because of overfishing (it is hunted for meat and its fins)
Kurt Amsler
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