It's All a Blur
Low tide is akin to the ring of a dinner bell for hundreds of western sandpipers flying into Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound to feed on exposed worms and crustaceans.

Photograph by Joel Sartore
From "Pacific Suite," National Geographic magazine, February 2003

The Posing Question
No one knows if this Hidatsa hunter from the early 1900s actually caught the eagle he holds or if he posed with a prop. Sacagawea once lived as a war captive among his people.

Photograph by Edward S. Curtis
From "Sacagawea," National Geographic magazine, February 2003