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  • Seven surf scoters (Melanitta perspicillata) fly over the blue water of Hood Canal near Hansville, Washington. Surf scoters are large sea ducks that are native to North America. Their breeding grounds are in Alaska and Northern Canada, but they winter along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, as far south as Baja California and Texas.
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  • A surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) runs on the water of Puget Sound near Edmonds, Washington, to gain speed so it can fly.
    Scoter_Surf_Running_Puget-Sound_1237.jpg
  • A male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) rests in the twilight surf on the beach at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery near San Simeon, California. Elephant seals typically spend 9 months at sea, coming to shore only to give birth and mate. Male elephant seals, known as bulls, are exceptionally large, weighing up to 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms). The Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery is part of the Piedras Blancas State Marine Reserve and Marine Conservation Area, managed by California.
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  • Very large Pacific Ocean waves crash on Makena Beach, Maui, Hawai`i, obscuring the view of tree trunks during a period of heavy surf.
    Maui_MakenaBeach_HeavySurf_6198.jpg
  • A long exposure captures the spray of Lake Washington waves crashing over a line of large rocks along the beach of Saint Edward State Park, Kenmore, Washington.
    WA_St-Edward_Beach-Rocks_Waves_6953.jpg
  • A flock of sanderlings (Caldris alba) rests on the rocks out of the reach of Pacific Ocean waves along Pescadero Beach in California. Sanderlings spend the summer in northern Canada and Greenland and winter on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America. The feed on mollusks and crustaceans, running along sandy beaches just ahead of the surf.
    Sanderlings_PescaderoBeach_0209.jpg
  • The sun may be going down, but this surfer is headed out to ride the waves near Santa Cruz, California. Another surfer is visible behind his left shoulder.
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  • Several Western Gulls (Larus occidentalis) dive for fish in the Pacific Ocean off Chapman Point near Cannon Beach, Oregon. Western Gulls are rarely seen away from the ocean and are found along the west coast of North America from Washington to Baja California. The mostly white birds are adults; the brown birds are juveniles.
    Gulls_Western_DivingIntoOcean_Chapma...jpg
  • The setting sun colors the sky above Haystack Rock, a prominent sea stack located off the coast of Cape Kiwanda near Pacific City, Oregon.
    HaystackRockKiwandaSunset.jpg
  • At dusk, English Channel waves crash through a natural sea arch known as Porte d'Aval at the Falaise d'Étretat cliffs in Normandy, France. The white chalk cliffs are as tall as 90 meters (300 feet).
    Etretat_Porte-d'Aval_Dusk_9599.jpg
  • Water from the Pacific Ocean drains through the skylight of a sea cave at Cape Perpetua near Yachats, Oregon. During the year's highest tides or in strong surf, ocean waves splash onto the rocks and make a 360-degree waterfall as the water drains into the hole.
    OR_CapePerpetua_Blowhole_Sunset_4254.jpg
  • A female harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) splashes in the water to shower off West Beach in Deception Pass State Park on Whidbey Island, Washington. During the winter months, harlequin ducks are found along the northern Pacific and Atlantic coasts, most commonly along rocky coastlines in the crashing surf.
    Duck_Harlequin_Splashing_Deception-P...jpg
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