Sebastian Kennerknecht / Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) wild female, wet after having crossed river, in mountain valley, Uchkul River, Sarychat-Ertash Strict Nature Reserve, Tien Shan Mountains, eastern Kyrgyzstan

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Sunrise over North Velebit National Park, Velebit Nature Park, Rewilding Europe area, Velebit mountains, Croatia June 2012

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Dawn rising behind Polonina Carynska. Bieszczady National Park, the Carpathians, Poland, October 2009.

Grzegorz Lesniewski / Ural Owl (Strix uralensis) perched. Bieszczady National Park, the Carpathians, Poland, December.

Tim Laman / Male Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae) bird of paradise displaying on his display court to five females perched above, Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New...

Tim Laman / Male Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae) bird of paradise displaying on his display court to five females perched above, Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New...

Tim Laman / Male Carola's Parotia (Parotia carolae) bird of paradise displaying at his display court, Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Tim Laman / Tree frog, close-up of eye, Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Pete Oxford / Madagascar Moon Moth (Argema mittrei) male on Jamun (Eugenia jambolana) leaves in the eastern highlands south of Antananarivo, Madagascar

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Open moorland mainly used for Grouse shooting, Eastern Grampians, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, August

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Open moorland mainly used for Grouse shooting, Eastern Grampians, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, August

Clay Bolt / Common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) queen, gathering nectar from an Azalea, Highlands, North Carolina, USA, May.