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alansimages > A Northern Elephant Seal pup (Mirounga angustirostris ) which has survived it’s first few weeks on the beach. Once the mother has weaned this pup, it will survive many weeks without food until it learns to swim, and then it will leave for it’s feeding grounds. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > The scene at one of the Northern Elephant Seal colonies on one of the Piedras Blancas beaches in February. The Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris ) use these Central California beaches for breeding in the winter months, and for moulting in the summer months. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > A Northern Elephant Seal pup (Mirounga angustirostris ) which did not survive. This pup was only a few weeks old when it died, and it is in the process of being scavenged by the many gulls which inhabit the beach head at this time. Gulls begin the process by pecking out the eyes and pulling flesh from the head out of the eye sockets. The death of this animal will provide food for the survival of other species – like the gulls. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > Two young Male Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris ) arriving at the Piedras Blancas rookery in advance of the arrival of the mature females and bulls at the beginning of the mating season. The northern elephant seal is the only mammal with a biannual migratory pattern. The first migration occurs after the winter breeding season,; they return to molt in the summer, and then leave again after the molt. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > Two mature Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) resting by a tidal pool in the soft light of the setting sun. Photo taken on the Central California coast. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > Male Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris ) resting at the Piedras Blancas rookery in advance of the arrival of the mature females at the beginning of the mating season. This relatively young male already had some bleeding cuts and calluses from sparring with other males, even though the mature females had not yet arrived. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > Young Male Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris ) arriving at the Piedras Blancas rookery in advance of the arrival of the mature females and bulls at the beginning of the mating season. The Elephant Seal spends eight to ten months a year in the open ocean, but makes a migration of thousands of miles, twice a year, to its land based rookery to birth it’s young pups, to breed, and to molt. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) wading in a creek near the ocean in Southern California. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon.
alansimages > Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia) in flight on the California coast. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon.
A Northern Elephant Seal pup (Mirounga angustirostris ) which has survived it’s first few weeks on the beach. Once the mother has weaned this pup, it will survive many weeks without food until it learns to swim, and then it will leave for it’s feeding grounds.
Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
alansimages > A Northern Elephant Seal pup (Mirounga angustirostris ) which has survived it’s first few weeks on the beach. Once the mother has weaned this pup, it will survive many weeks without food until it learns to swim, and then it will leave for it’s feeding grounds. Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
A Northern Elephant Seal pup (Mirounga angustirostris ) which has survived it’s first few weeks on the beach. Once the mother has weaned this pup, it will survive many weeks without food until it learns to swim, and then it will leave for it’s feeding grounds.
Photo - Copyright 2008 Alan Vernon
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