Sockeye Salmon Swimming To Spawning Grounds, Cedar River, Washington
A sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) showing its red breeding coloration, swims up the Cedar River in Renton, Washington toward its spawning grounds. Sockeye salmon are blue-tinged and silver when they live in the ocean; their bodies turn red and their heads green when they return to freshwater rivers to spawn.
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