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62 images Created 14 Mar 2011

Photos of Oregon animals and sea life include: Wild stellar sea lion colony at Heceta Head, Sea nettle (Chrysaora species), crab, fish, Oregon Coast Aquarium, mussel shells, gulls, Lewis and Clark commemorative statue at Seaside, Canada geese on Harris Beach, USA.

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  • Wild male turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), Bullards Beach State Park, Bandon, Oregon, USA
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
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  • A gull perches atop a statue of Lewis and Clark, which commemorates the end of their trail across America, 1805-1806, at the present-day Prom at Seaside, Oregon, USA.
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  • A sea anemone, at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.  Sea anemones (which are named after the anemone, a terrestrial flower) are predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. As cnidarians, sea anemones are closely related to corals, jellyfish, tube-dwelling anemones and Hydra.
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  • Wild but tagged Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) flee upslope along Dug Bar Road in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, north of Imnaha, Oregon, USA. On May 20, 2014, the hills were green with spring grass.
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  • The Pacific Ocean carves sea stacks from coastal cliffs at Harris Beach State Park, on US Highway 101, north of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA. Canada geese walk the beach. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • Watch for frequent Western Rattlesnakes on Imnaha River Trail, in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Imnaha, Oregon, USA. Crotalus viridis (commonly known as the Western Rattlesnake, Prairie or Plains Rattlesnake) is a venomous pit viper native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico. The Western Rattlesnake is common in much of eastern Washington, and is Washington's only venomous snake. A rattlesnake bite seldom delivers enough venom to kill a human, although painful swelling and discoloration may occur. Distinctive features of the Western Rattlesnake include a broad, triangular head that is much wider than its neck; a diamond-shaped pattern along the middle of its back; and rattles on the tail tip. Color patterns differ with habitat, ranging from olive to brown to gray. Black and white crossbars may occur on the tail. Western rattlesnakes measure 18 inches to 4 feet at maturity. The number of segments on the rattle does not indicate the true age of the snake, since rattlesnakes lose portions of their rattles as they age.
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  • Fish swim in a tank with a sea anemone, at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon.  Sea anemones (which are named after the anemone, a terrestrial flower) are predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. As cnidarians, sea anemones are closely related to corals, jellyfish, tube-dwelling anemones and Hydra.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
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  • Starfish at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
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  • A colony of wild steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) rests below the "Lighthouse & Sealion Beach Vantage Point" on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Swallowtail butterfly, in the family Papilionidae. Imnaha River Trail, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Imnaha, Oregon, USA
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
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  • Wild steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) rest above surf line, seen from "Lighthouse & Sealion Beach Vantage Point" along Highway 101 on the Oregon coast, USA. Notice Heceta Head Lighthouse across the bay. While seeking to extend Spanish hegemony in the late 1700s, Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta mapped the mouth of the Columbia River and much more along the Pacific Northwest coast; and in 1862, the US Coast Survey named Heceta Head in his honor.
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  • Shiny blue interior of mussel shells on a rocky beach on the north side of the hiker's tunnel at Oceanside beach, Oregon
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  • Crab, at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon
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  • Gulls drink fresh water from a stream flowing onto a beach south of Cape Meares, near Oceanside, on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
    08ORC-286_Sea-Nettle_Chrysaora.jpg
  • A gull perches atop a statue of Lewis and Clark, which commemorates the end of their trail across America, 1805-1806, at the present-day Prom at Seaside, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
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  • A colony of wild steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) rests below the "Lighthouse & Sealion Beach Vantage Point" on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • A colony of wild steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) rests below the "Lighthouse & Sealion Beach Vantage Point" on the Oregon coast, USA.
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  • A gull perches atop a statue of Lewis and Clark, which commemorates the end of their trail across America, 1805-1806, at the present-day Prom at Seaside, Oregon, USA.
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  • Harris Beach State Park, on US Highway 101, north of Brookings, Curry County, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettle, or Ortiga de mar (Chrysaora fuscescens), Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. Although commonly named "jellyfish," jellies are plankton, not fish. Jellies (class Scyphozoa) lack the backbone (vertebral column) found in fish. Jellies have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, making them the oldest multi-organ animal. A sea nettle hunts by trailing long tentacles covered with stinging cells to paralyze tiny plankton and other prey. Stung prey is moved to the frilly mouth-arms and on to the jelly's mouth.
    08ORC-356_Sea-Nettle_Chrysaora.jpg
  • Watch for frequent Western Rattlesnakes on Imnaha River Trail, in Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Imnaha, Oregon, USA. Crotalus viridis (commonly known as the Western Rattlesnake, Prairie or Plains Rattlesnake) is a venomous pit viper native to the western United States, southwestern Canada, and northern Mexico. The Western Rattlesnake is common in much of eastern Washington, and is Washington's only venomous snake. A rattlesnake bite seldom delivers enough venom to kill a human, although painful swelling and discoloration may occur. Distinctive features of the Western Rattlesnake include a broad, triangular head that is much wider than its neck; a diamond-shaped pattern along the middle of its back; and rattles on the tail tip. Color patterns differ with habitat, ranging from olive to brown to gray. Black and white crossbars may occur on the tail. Western rattlesnakes measure 18 inches to 4 feet at maturity. The number of segments on the rattle does not indicate the true age of the snake, since rattlesnakes lose portions of their rattles as they age.
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  • Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) graze in winter at Ecola State Park, on the Oregon coast, USA. Behind the elk, various sea stacks rise from the Pacific Ocean, including nearby Bird Rocks and Haystack Rock offshore from Cannon Beach.
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  • Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), Ecola State Park, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • Roosevelt elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti), Ecola State Park, Oregon coast, USA.
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  • A diver cleans rock walls of a large tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Canary Rockfish (Sebastes pinniger). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • The Passages of the Deep exhibit tunnels under seawater at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • The common murre, in a seabird pen at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. The Common Murre (Uria aalge) is a dapper, black-and-white seabird that nests in raucous throngs on crowded sea cliffs. Resembling "flying penguins," they have a tuxedoed look but are actually relatives of auks and puffins.
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  • Rhinoceros Auklet. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pigeon Guillemot. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Tufted Puffin. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • A common murre, in a seabird pen at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA. The Common Murre (Uria aalge) is a dapper, black-and-white seabird that nests in raucous throngs on crowded sea cliffs. Resembling "flying penguins," they have a tuxedoed look but are actually relatives of auks and puffins.
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  • A Tufted Puffin flaps its wings in a pen at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Tufted Puffin. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) undulate hypnotically in a blue tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) undulate hypnotically in a blue tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) undulate hypnotically in a blue tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) undulate hypnotically in a blue tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Pacific sea nettles (Chrysaora fuscescens) undulate hypnotically in a blue tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Metridium farcimen (giant plumose anemone or white-plumed anemone) is a species of sea anemone in the family Metridiidae, found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Alaska down to Catalina Island, California. Photographed in a tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • A spot prawn (Panalus platyceros) crawls below a giant plumose anemone (Metridium farcimen) in a tank at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • A yellow sea anemone and other sealife at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Seaweed reaches to the undersurface of brightly reflecting water rippling in a colorful sealife tank at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Northern red anemone (Urticina crassicornis) at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Sea anemones and other sealife at Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Two Ochre Sea Stars (the common starfish species Pisaster ochraceus) fight over a clam, watched by a rockfish. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • An Ochre Sea Star (the common starfish species Pisaster ochraceus) uses its tube feet to grip a clam. Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Closeup photo of the tube feet of an Ochre Sea Star (the starfish species Pisaster ochraceus). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Two fish swim over Giant Green Anemones (Anthopleura xanthogrammica). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris). Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, USA.
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  • A Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) emerges from a pipe at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, in Newport, Oregon, USA. While it may look neon green, the skin of the otherwise brown eel actually secretes a yellow-tinted layer of protective, toxic mucus. Moray eels are the only fish (and the only vertebrates) with mobile pharyngeal jaws, an extraordinary hunting innovation where outer jaws firmly grasp the prey, then separate inner jaws within the throat shoot forward to bite the target and pull it in!
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  • A mountain goat wanders atop the Matterhorn, Wallowa Mountains, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa–Whitman NF, Oregon, USA. The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus, or Rocky Mountain Goat) is a large-hoofed mammal found only in North America. It is an even-toed ungulate in the family Bovidae, in subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes), in the Oreamnos genus, but is NOT a true "goat." Mountain goats are more closely related to chamois, antelopes, gazelles and cattle. From Wallowa Lake Trailhead, I hiked 7.7 miles one way with 3200 feet gain to Ice Lake plus 3.7 miles round trip with 2000 feet ascent and descent to Matterhorn Peak in the Wallowa Mountains, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, in the Columbia Plateau of northeastern Oregon, USA. I tented overnight at Ice Lake before returning 7.7 miles to the trailhead.
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  • A mountain goat atop the Matterhorn, Wallowa Mountains, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa–Whitman NF, Oregon, USA. The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus, or Rocky Mountain Goat) is a large-hoofed mammal found only in North America. It is an even-toed ungulate in the family Bovidae, in subfamily Caprinae (goat-antelopes), in the Oreamnos genus, but is NOT a true "goat." Mountain goats are more closely related to chamois, antelopes, gazelles and cattle. From Wallowa Lake Trailhead, I hiked 7.7 miles one way with 3200 feet gain to Ice Lake plus 3.7 miles round trip with 2000 feet ascent and descent to Matterhorn Peak in the Wallowa Mountains, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa–Whitman National Forest, in the Columbia Plateau of northeastern Oregon, USA. I tented overnight at Ice Lake before returning 7.7 miles to the trailhead.
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