Ismaele Tortella / Three Rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) feeding in winter plumage, city of Tromso in the background, northern Norway, March 2019.

Dave Bevan / Juvenile Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) raiding a chicken nest in a barn, filmed at night using an infra red camera, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, December.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on Chicken of the Woods fungus (Laetiporus), Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK, June.

Gerrit Vyn / Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) male displaying on a lek in snow, Sublette County, Wyoming, USA. April.

LYNN M. STONE / Free-range New Hampshire rooster, by corn pile in snow-covered field. Higganum, Connecticut, USA.

Laurent Geslin / Amara man selling garlic and chicken beside road, North Ethiopia, 2006

Ernie Janes / Bantam hen (Gallus gallus domesticus) close up sitting on chick, Norfolk, UK, April.

Ernie Janes / Five newly hatched chicks in a row

Simon Colmer / Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) growing in protective cage near buildings, Sussex, UK, June 2010

Mark Taylor / Portrait of a Partridge Pekin Bantam.

Ernie Janes / Farmyard chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) free range, mixed breed, Norfolk, UK. Property released

Ernie Janes / Farmyard chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) free range, mixed breed, two perched on tractor bonnet, Norfolk, UK. Property released