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Sockeye Salmon Swimming To Spawning Grounds, Cedar River, Washington

Four sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), showing their red breeding coloration, swim up the Cedar River in Renton, Washington toward their spawning grounds. Sockeye salmon are blue-tinged and silver when they live in the ocean; their bodies turn red and their heads green when they return to freshwater rivers to spawn.

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Four sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), showing their red breeding coloration, swim up the Cedar River in Renton, Washington toward their spawning grounds. Sockeye salmon are blue-tinged and silver when they live in the ocean; their bodies turn red and their heads green when they return to freshwater rivers to spawn.