Jack Dykinga / Burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) at sunset, standing on one leg, Marana, Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA. October.

Ingo Arndt / Red wood ant (Formica rufa) carrying construction material to anthill (fir needles), Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) diving into water to catch a fish, Hessen, Germany, sequence 7/9

Huw Cordey / Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging from Bracken Cave, Texas. Over 15 million bats are thought to live in this cave, making it the greatest concentration of mammals on the planet...

Carol Walker / Wild pinto Mustang mare and foal running in Sand Wash Basin, Colorado, USA.

David Pattyn / Gannet (Morus bassanus) coming in to land in the colony in evening light, Great Saltee, Saltee Islands, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, June

David Pattyn / Zanzibar red colobus monkey (Procolobus kirkii) crossing the main road through the Reserve, Jozani forest, Jozani Chwaka Bay NP, Zanzibar, Tanzania, August.

Melvin Grey / Violet-tailed sylph hummingbird (Aglaiocercus coelestis) hummingbird adult male, approaching flower to feed, Tandayapa, Ecuador

Sven Zacek / Otter (Lutra lutra) running through snow, Southern Estonia, January.

Pete Oxford / Woman with basket on her head picking tea (Camellia sinensis), Assam, North East India, October 2014.

Sven Zacek / White-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) flying, and hunting over sea, Norway, July.

Danny Green / Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) in flight, Japan, February