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Wildlife can be defined as non-domesticated animals in their natural state. My wildlife category includes both vertebrate (with backbones) and invertebrate (without backbones, insects for example) animals. My wildlife category also includes fish.

The wide variety of habitats found in the Pacific Northwest results in distinctive wildlife communities though this is probably less pronounced in larger species of animals than it is in smaller species of animals and in plant species. Some of the larger animals found in the Pacific Northwest are found across North America (black bears, raccoons and coyotes for example) while others are restricted to western North America (mountain goats) or the Pacific Coast (black-tailed deer). Smaller animals that have small ranges and specialize in certain habitats are often found only in the Pacific Northwest (Cascades frog). Wildlife photography is not my long suit. I do, however, have some photos of animals large and small which I think are passable, though in some of them you have to look pretty hard to find the animals.

These photos are of the animals in their native habitat and are taken without much magnification, so you have to literally pick them out of the landscape.

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