Sockeye Salmon Animal Pictures

Oncorhynchus nerka

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A bright red sockeye salmon swimming

A bright red sockeye salmon swimming
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Male sockeye salmons faces change to a beak shape and they develop a hump during spawning season

A pair of bright-red sockeye salmon

A pair of bright-red sockeye salmon
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Sockeye salmon turn bright red during spawning season

A school of bright red sockeye salmon swimming upstream

A school of bright red sockeye salmon swimming upstream
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Sockeye salmon often swim hundred of miles to spawn

A bright red sockeye salmon swimming upstream

A bright red sockeye salmon swimming upstream
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Male sockeye salmon turn bright red all over during spawning season

A brown bear holds a sockeye salmon in its mouth

A brown bear holds a sockeye salmon in its mouth
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Bears are just one of the sockeye salmons' many predators