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Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus,) Porsanger Fjord The Horned Grebe or Slavonian Grebe, Podiceps auritus, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. It appears in Northern Norway (here at a breeding site at the Porsanger fjord) when in May the lake ice is opening. ...

By Peter Prokosch

Red Knots (Calidris canutus islandica,) feeding at Porsanger Fjord, Northern Norway The Red Knot is a migratory shorebird that travels up to 20,000 km twice a year from its breeding grounds on the high Arctic tundra to its southern non-breeding sites. Along with having one of the longest total migration...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Red Knots (Calidris canutus islandica,) feeding at Porsanger Fjord, Northern Norway Of the six subspecies of Red Knot, one is now stable, four are in decline, and the trend in the sixth population is unclear. These declines can be attributed to the loss of important feeding areas and food sources along ...

By Peter Prokosch

Dark-bellied brent geese (branta b. bernicla,) Langeness, Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park The Dark-bellied Brent Geese breeds during the short Arctic summer on the northernmost coast and offshore islands of the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia/Russian Federation. It winters along the coasts of South-...

By Peter Prokosch

Migrating Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica,) German Wadden Sea Birds are certainly the most known representatives of migratory species and fascinating in their incredible flight strategies. They attract millions of birdwatchers and eco-tourists all over the world. Approximately 1,80...

By Peter Prokosch

Brent geese (Branta b. bernicla,) Langeness, Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsten Wadden Sea The Dark-bellied Brent Geese breeds during the short Arctic summer on the northernmost coast and offshore islands of the Taimyr peninsular in northernmost Siberia/Russian Federation. It winters along the coasts of South-...

By Peter Prokosch

Polar bear diving after whale cadaver, Svalbard Even after 2 years in the cold Arctic environment a dead whale still serves as food source for polar bears. They just have to dive to get down to the rotten meat. A known site in Northern Svalbard for tour operators to ...

By Peter Prokosch

Juvenile fish habitat on the Virgin Islands Mangroves provide shelter for many juvenile fish species in the United States Virgin Islands. They are also recognized as important carbon sinks, helping to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, through storage in c...

By Christian Perthen (RUI LLC)

Cheetahs in the shade, Kenya The cheetah is the fastest living land animal and capable of reaching speeds up to 120 km/h. As opposed to their relative on the savannah, the leopard, cheetahs cannot climb vertical trees. The reason for this is that th...

By Yannick Beaudoin

The Wet Forest National Park at Batumi, Georgia The wet forest national park at batumi, georgia, caucasus was inaugurated in 2007.

By Peter Prokosch

Red Panda (Ailurus fulgenst) The red panda photograph has been taken in a bamboo-rich forest at a level of about 3,500 m above sea level in the Sargamarta (Mount Everest) national park in Nepal. The red panda can be seen as a well-known (but rarly s...

By Peter Prokosch

Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris) The Sumatran tiger is classified as a critically endangered species (IUCN classification), and the more positive estimates hold that approximately five hundred animals are left on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. This s...

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) fishing for Salmon Salmon-fishing kamchatka bears, kamchatka.

By Peter Prokosch

Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) fishing for Salmon

By Peter Prokosch

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