Colourful Tundra Fairytale
Yasmin L Bohak
Weizmann Institute of Science
Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) are a seasonal colour moulting species, moulting twice a year in autumn and spring. Most of the global arctic fox population change colour from brown with lighter ventral sides to completely white in winter. Taken in mid-October, this photograph captures the fox “in-transition” between summer and winter coats, making it conspicuous on the backdrop of the colourful autumn, in the sub-arctic tundra near Churchill, Manitoba.
This photograph was taken during my time volunteering at the Churchill Northern Studies Center.
Finalist in the EGU Photo Competition 2026
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Yasmin L Bohak (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
PNG
Size
25.1 MB
Aspect
3:2
Width
5184 px
Height
3456 px
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 700D
Exposure
250 mm f/5.6 1/100 s ISO 200
Software
Lightroom
Coordinates
58.7808, -94.1869
Tint
Moderate brown
Submitted
8 April 2026
Taken
15 October 2016
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