Common murre colony on the barren offshore rock with seagulls on land . Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony sharing nesting area with California brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis). Note gregarious bunching of murres as opposed to fairly constant ring of personal space around each pelican. Aerial photograph.

A mixed colony of common murres, cormorants, and pelicans. Aerial photograph.

A mixed colony of common murres (smaller black and white birds) and cormorants (larger black birds). Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with a few pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with a few pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans and cormorants. Aerial photograph.

Pelicans, cormorants, and murres. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans. Note the two seagulls in flight. Aerial photograph.

Common murre colony with pelicans. Aerial photograph.

Cormorants. Aerial photograph.

Cormorants with seagull in flight. Aerial photograph.

Cormorants and sea lions at their beach house

Cormorants on the patio at their beach house

Cormorants on the patio at their beac house. Note the sea lions at the top left .

Pelicans and sea lions.

Cormorants on the patio at their beach house

A common murre colony on an offshore rock

A common murre colony on an offshore rock

A common murre colony on an offshore rock

Common murres nesting at Bench Mark 227X

A great blue heron

Brown pelicans and wood storks on a Florida pier near the cruise ship docks.

Pelicans "sitting on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away"

Glossy ibis ( Plegadis falcinellus )

American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)

Bald eagle perched in a tree

Pelicans on a fence

American Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani)

Great egret (Ardea alba)

Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) a diving duck

An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)

Murres and sealions share a quiet grotto

A red-faced cormorant in the foreground and murres

A crewman off the PATHFINDER approaching a colony of murres

A colony of murres

A huge flock of seabirds - perhaps shearwaters seen from the USC&GS PATHFINDER

Bald eagle perched in a tree

Flamingos on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Black-billed magpie on the beach on Kodiak Island

Large alligator cruising

Part of a large herd of caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

An arctic fox (Alopex lagopus)

An arctic fox (Alopex lagopus)