Alex Mustard / Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) hunts for a meal in a school of Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) beneath an oil rig. Eureka Rig, Los Angeles, California, USA, September

Alex Mustard / Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) hunts for a meal in a school of Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus), beneath an oil rig. Eureka Rig, Los Angeles, California, United States of Ame...

Suzi Eszterhas / Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) portrait, breeding plumage, Moss Landing, California, USA, April

Dietmar Nill / Brandt's bat flying {Myotis brandtii} Germany

Suzi Eszterhas / Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) pellet of worms coughed up by cormorant International Bird Rescue, Fairfield, California

Jed Weingarten / Wild Wonders of China / Mixed flock of Mountain finches including Brandt's mountain finches (Leucosticte brandti) China, Sichuan Province, Garze Prefecture, Serxu County.

Jed Weingarten / Wild Wonders of China / Mixed flock of Mountain finches including Brandt's mountain finches (Leucosticte brandti) China, Sichuan Province, Garze Prefecture, Serxu County.

Suzi Eszterhas / Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) rehabilitator, Martha Grimson, drying juvenile, International Bird Rescue, Fairfield, California

Ben Cranke / Brandt's vole (Lasiopodomys brandtii) feeding on a grass stem, Mongolia, June.

Francois Savigny / Brandt's whistling rat {Parotomys brantsii} at burrow entrance, Gemsbok, Kalahari, South Africa.

Alex Mustard / Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) hunts for a meal in a school of Pacific chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) beneath Eureka oil rig. Los Angeles, California, USA, Pacific Ocean, September