Leopard seal
Photo by Vandy Pollard
An exhausted male Leopard Seal resting on Freyberg beach in Oriental Bay a few days ago. Shot from behind the barrier - 400mm cropped. Usually found in the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic regions but occasionally make it to New Zealand shores during Leopard Seal season in Spring. They are the only Seals known to hunt and kill warm - blooded prey including other seals.
Vandy Pollard - Excio Gallery
I’m a photographer living on the South Coast of Wellington New Zealand. with a passion for New Zealand birds, many of them with a conservation status of at risk.
