David Tipling / Game Fund anti trapping team with seized trapping equipment including limesticks, sound devices and mist nets Cyprus, September 2011

David Tipling / Police officer dismantles illegal mist nets in olive grove in Dekelia Sovereign Base Area of Cyprus, Birds would have been trapped and sold as the food delicacy ambelopoulia. September 2011.

David Tipling / Police officer dismantles illegal mist nets in olive grove in Dekelia Sovereign Base Area of Cyprus. Birds would have been trapped and sold as the food delicacy ambelopoulia. September 2011.

David Tipling / Person cutting Great Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus arundiaceus) from an illegal mist net in olive grove, the bird would have been killed and sold as a delicacy to restaurants, known as ambelopoulia. Cypr...

David Tipling / Officer from the British Sovereign Base Area Police anti trapping unit at Dekeleia holding a Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) rescued from a trappers mist nest in Cyprus, September 2011

David Tipling / Officer from the British Sovereign Base Police at Dekeleia Cyrus extracting an illegally trapped Great Reed Warbler from a mist net in olive grove. Bird would be used to serve as a delicacy in resaura...

David Tipling / Christakis an officer from the British Sovereign Base Police at Dekeleia Cyprus, extracting an illegally trapped Blackcap from a mist net in olive grove. Bird would be used to serve as a delicacy in r...

David Tipling / Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) caught in trappers illegal mist net, with an officer from the British Sovereign Base Police at Dekeleia removing birds, Cyprus, September 2011

David Tipling / Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) cut out from a trappers illegal mist net Cyprus, September 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus) caught in mist net for ringing, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Man removing bird from mist net for ringing, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Man removing birds from mist net for ringing, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Man removing Long tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) from mist net for ringing, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Man looking at Great tit (Parus major) caught in mist net for ringing, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Great tit (Parus major) caught in mist net for ringing with a man removing another bird behind, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Great tit (Parus major) caught in mist net for ringing with a man behind, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Long tailed tit (Aegihalos caudatus) caught in mist net for ringing, in allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Man removing birds from mist net caught for ringing, in a allotment garden, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Philip Stephen / Trawler hauling a large catch of Saithe alongside in foggy conditions on the North Sea. July 2010. Property released.

Tim Laman / Chris Milensky extracts a bat from a mist net at the Lower Camp at 1200 m elevation. Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expeditio...

Tim Laman / Bat captured in a mist net. Chris Milensky extracts another bat in the background. Foja Mountains Expedition, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program...

Tim Laman / Foja Mountains RAP expedition field assistant Bastian Tawane removes a female Black Pitohui (Pitohui nigrescens) from a mist net. Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid...

Pete Oxford / Medium Ground Finch (Geospiza fortis) caught in mist net to be studied for avian pox, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Medium Ground Finch (Geospiza fortis) caught in mist net to be studied for avian pox, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Philip Stephen / Trawler "Harvester" taking a large catch of Saithe onboard in misty conditions on the North Sea. Property released.

Michael Durham / Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) caught in mist net set by researchers at night, Rogue River National Forest, Oregon

Mark Moffett / Owl caught in mist net, Kerman, Iran

Christian Ziegler / Bat researcher Sergio Estrada removing bats caught in mist net, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Bat researcher Sergio Estrada releasing bat after catching it in mist net, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Bat researcher Sergio Estrada taking Great Stripe Faced Bat (Vampyrodes caraccioli) out of mist net, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Bat researcher Sergio Estrada approaches a Great Stripe Faced Bat (Vampyrodes caraccioli) caught in mist net, Smithsonian Tropical Research Station, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Mark Moffett / Aspiring biologist holds owl caught in mist net in the guest house, Kerman, Iran