Marie Read / Black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) pair performing post-copulatory display (as copulation ends, the male slides off the female leaving his wings draped over her and crossing his bill with hers...

Nick Upton / Red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) entering and leaving nest hole drilled into a log within an insect hotel, Gloucestershire, England, UK, April.

Brian Bevan / Juvenile Green woodpecker (Picus viridis) leaving nest hole, shot looking up trunk, Bedfordshire, England, UK, June.

Juergen Freund / Male Tooth-billed bowerbird (Scenopoeetes dentirostris) removing yellow leaves from his bower, leaving only green leaves turned over on the ground, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Juergen Freund / Colony of Little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) leaving roost site, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Dave Bevan / Slow motion clip of a Tawny owl (Strix aluco) leaving nest site in hollow tree, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, April.

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) carrying fecal sac from nest cavity in forest, Alaska

Solvin Zankl / Honey bee (Apis mellifera), bees can link up to form a bridge, however in this image the bridge has just collapsed leaving just three bees linked. Kiel, Germany, June.

Dave Bevan / Slow motion clip of a Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) flying to nest box, enters to feed nestlings and leaves, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, June.

Peter Bassett / King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) entering and leaving the sea near their breeding colony, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia.

Ingo Arndt / Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) leaving water after successfully catching a fish, Hessen, Germany, sequence 9/9

Ingo Arndt / Desert chameleon crossing sand leaving tracks, Namibia {Chamaeleo namaquensis}

Bruno D'Amicis / Tenebrionid beetle (Tenebrionidae) crossing Fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) tracks on sand. Grand Erg Oriental, Kebili Governorate. Tunisia.

Solvin Zankl / Namib desert beetle / Fog Basking Beetle (Stenocara gracilipes) drinking droplets of water which gather on its body during the early morning fog over the dunes, Namib desert, Namibia

Solvin Zankl / Namib desert beetle {Stenocara gracilipes} running over hot sand on its long legs, Namib desert, Namibia

Mark Moffett / Darkling Beetle (Onymacris unguicularis) collecting dew on its upturned body, Namib Desert, Namibia

Nigel Cattlin / Rust red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum) on cereal grain debris, a pest of stored crops.

Alain Dragesco-Joffe / Typical saharan Darkling beetle (Tenebrionidae) Tenere Sahara, Niger.

MYN / Lily Kumpe / Darkling beetle (Gonocephalum sp) William Bay National Park, Western Australia. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

MYN / Lily Kumpe / Purple darkling beetle (Cyphaleus sp) William Bay National Park, Western Australia. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

MYN / Joao P. Burini / Predatory darkling beetle (Carabidae) Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Emanuele Biggi / Desert darkling beetle (Onymacris sp.) drinking water by collecting water droplets contained into the early morning fog in tiny ridges of its hardened wings (elytra), Swakopmund, Dorob National Park,...

Doug Wechsler / False mealworm beetle (Alobates pensylvanica) head, Fort. Washington State Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. April.

Emanuele Biggi / Dead swiftlet being eaten by darkling beetles and cockroaches. Deer cave, Gunung Mulu National Park, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia