Ashley Cooper / Walkers on the Tour Du Mont Blanc share shelter from heavy rain with a goat on the Col Du Bonhomme near Les Contamines, French Alps. France. August 2014

Ashley Cooper / Women protestors with a protest banner against fracking at a farm site at Little Plumpton near Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, where the council for the first time in the UK, has granted planning permissio...

Ashley Cooper / Protestors with a protest banner against fracking at a farm site at Little Plumpton near Blackpool, Lancashire, UK, where the council for the first time in the UK, has granted planning permission for...

Roy Mangersnes / Waves getting whipped up by the wind while crossing the howling fifties in the Southern Ocean, Atlantic, Antarctica. November

Oscar Diez / Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) male drinking, Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Oscar Diez / Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Oscar Diez / Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Oscar Diez / Pin-tailed Sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata), Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Juan Manuel Borrero / Pin Tailed Sandgrouse {Pterocles alchata} female drinking, Zaragoza, Spain

Juan Manuel Borrero / Pin-tailed Sandgrouse {Pterocles alchata} female in foreground, male in behind, Zaragoza, Spain

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus erlangeri) pair, portrait, Wadi Al Safa Wildlife Center, Dubai. Captive.

Roland Seitre / Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse (Pterocles exustus) flock taking flight, Lac de Guiers, Ferlo, Senegal.

Roland Seitre / Pintailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) male, portrait, Fes-Boulemane, Morocco. Captive.

Roland Seitre / Pintailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) female, portrait, Fes-Boulemane, Morocco. Captive.

Roland Seitre / Pintailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) pair, portrait, Fes-Boulemane, Morocco. Captive.

Roland Seitre / Pintailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) female, resting on the ground, Spain. Captive.