Animal Pictures

An unusually adorned whitetail buck appears to kiss a doe white-tailed deer.

A pair of mule deer bucks in western grasslands.

A whitetail buck jumping over a fence.

A snowy egret and small waves.

An bald eagle with wings spread vertically while making a turn.

Lit by late evening light, a rutting whitetail buck and doe stand alert at the edge of an old field.

A whitetail deer buck in a pine forest inspects a holly tree licking branch. Licking branches are commonly found above ground scrapes, upon which bucks and does urinate during the breeding season (the rut).

An anhinga drying its feathers while perched on a snag.

This mean looking buck had just emerged from the swamp during his search for receptive does. Looking quite intimidating, he appears ready to fight even a bigger buck if he were challenged.

A brown bear charging through a stream in pursuit of a salmon. Notice the blood on the upper lip of this bear.

A large rutting elk moves through the forest.

A great blue heron in flight.

An eastern coyote standing in grass at the edge of an old field.

A tricolored heron perched on a limb in a cypress swamp.

An Alaska sockeye salmon leaping from rapids.

A big buck whitetail deer stands in a forest with his head held high. This rutting buck had finished rubbing his antlers on a pine tree, which is pictured to the right of him.

A woman holding a large chinook salmon (king salmon) caught while sport fishing the Kenai River, Alaska.

A sunlit snowy egret perched on a snag.

A pair of whitetail does and a buck with unusual antlers rest peacefully in an Appalachian field.

A great blue heron engaged in sky pointing behavior.

A pair of double-crested cormorants.

A whitetail deer buck pauses to look back over his shoulder.

A whitetail buck pauses to look over his shoulder.

An anhinga with a fish speared on its bill.