Mary Ann McDonald

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), gulleral flapping while perched on top of dead branch. Gulleral flapping is a cooling behaviour. Satpura National Park, Madya Pradesh, India

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Animal, Animal Behaviour, Aves, Beak, Bill, Bird, Birds, Black Animal, Black Shag, Cormorant, Cormorants, Fauna, Fish Eating, Full Length, Great Black Cormorant, Hooked, Large Cormorant, Low Angle View, Phalacrocoracidae, Phalacrocorax, Piscivore, Seabird, Shag, Suliformes, Thermoregulation, Webbed, White Necked Cormorant, Wildlife, Worldwide

Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)

Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), male, similar to the Common ostrich but the skin on the neck and thighs is blue-grey and not pinkish. The female has darker brown plumage than Common ostrich females. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

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African, Animal, Arid Climate, Aves, Backlit, Bird, Communal Nester, Ehtiopian, Endangered Species, Endemic To Horn Of Africa, Fauna, Feathers, Female Larger, Flightless, Grey Blue Skin, Hunted For Meat, Large, Male Animal, Nests Communally, Nomadic, One Animal, Ostrich, Ostriches, Ratite, Side View, Somalin, Struthio, Struthio Camelus Molybdophanes, Struthionidae, Struthioniformes, Two Toed, Two Toes, Vulnerable, Wildlife

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus)

Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) group in pale, thick, winter fur, grazing. Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Archipelago, Norwegian Arctic, Norway

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Animal, Antlers, Artiodactyla, Boreal, Caribou, Cervidae, Deer, Endemic To Svalbard, Eutheria, Even Toed Ungulate, Fauna, Hoofed, Islands, Mammal, Mammalia, Migratory, Northern Hemisphere, Rangifer, Small Group Of Animals, Subspecies, Ungulate, Wildlife, Winter Coat