Sandesh Kadur / Common peafowl (Pavo cristatus) perched on trees at dawn, Western Ghats, Southern India

Ben Hall / Whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) in snowfall. Martin Mere Wetlands Trust, Lancashire,UK, January. 'Animal Portraits' category, British Wildlife Photographer Awards (BWPA) competition 2012.

Jordi Chias / Green Turtle, (Chelonia mydas), Swimming over volcanic sandy bottom, Armenime cove, South Tenerife coast, Canary Islands, Spain, Atlantic Ocean, May 2011, Commended in Wildlife Photographer of the Yea...

Sandra Bartocha / Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) flowers in cereal field, April

Ben Hall / Chilean flamingos (Phoenicopterus chilensis) in flight over mountain peaks with glacier in the distance, Torres Del Paine National Park, Chile. Winner of Landscape category, Nature's Best / Windland S...

Ben Hall / Northern gannets (Morus / Sula bassanus) portrait of individual with a courting pair in foreground, UK, Bass Rock, Scotland, Portrait category winner in the British Wildlife Photography Awards BWPA co...

Mark MacEwen / Broad snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) baby in mothers mouth being carried from nest, Sante Fe, Argentina, February

Denis-Huot / Agama (Agama agama) male, Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

Carol Walker / Lusitano horse, grey stallion trotting, Portugal

Stephen Dalton / Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) backlit, portrait, controlled conditions, UK

Markus Varesvuo / Common Raven (Corvus corax) two in flight during snow storm, Kuusamo, Finland April

Doc White / Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) calf. Tonga, South Pacific, September.