Every year tens of thousands of golden rays, also known as cow nosed rays, make a biannual migration between Western Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula. They are known to school in groups of 10,000 or more during their exodus. These shots were snapped off the coast of Mexico by Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer and printed in Britain's Daily Telegraph (more pics can be found by reading the full article).
We're going to need a bigger boat...
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Golden (cow nosed) Rays, Rhinoptera steindachneri, gathering off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, near the coast of Mexico. This spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures…
tags: Golden Rays, cow nosed rays, Rhinoptera steindachneri, Sandra Critelli, image of the day
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amazing stuff. i love the shot also at the telegraph of the "edge" of the school.
That's incredible! I would love to see something like that someday.
That....is epic, awesome, and utterly beautiful. They're like the monarch butterflies of the ocean.
Dude, we totally posted this A MONTH AGO. Quit riding out coattails and post something original ;p
I knew I had seen this on your site somewhere, but tried using the search box this morning and it didn't come up. Oh well, lucky no one reads your site.
Tens of thousands, eh? What majestic abundance! It must be because the Japanese haven't discovered them to be of good eating yet! :-)
I know I'm just repeating things here, but even though rays are not normally something to which I would gravitate I just found those photos breathtaking and beautiful. Thanks. I know, now back to your regularly scheduled oddities.
Andrew, I think you should borrow the term "Regularly Scheduled Oddities." (Unless you have already.)
Hilary,
you mean the Japanese haven't discovered they're good for scientific study.
Wow those are amazing photos. The Calgary Zoo, not too far from where I live, had a bunch of cownoses but they almost all died- poisoned as far as I know.
Spectacular!
What time of year does this happen?
Love the pictures, on April 25 I saw the same type of migration 12 miles off the coast of Georgia near Tibee Island and Savannah. I didn't have a camera, but when I saw your pictures they were identical to what I witnessed. It was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed at sea.
Love the pictures, on April 25 I saw the same type of migration 12 miles off the coast of Georgia near Tibee Island and Savannah. I didn't have a camera, but when I saw your pictures they were identical to what I witnessed. It was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed at sea.
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