Marie Read / California quail (Callipepla californica), male emerging from behind snowbank in winter, Mono Lake Basin, California, USA

Claudio Contreras / Central American spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) juveniles hanging by tails and playing, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, August

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Minden / Calcium tufa formations, Mono Lake, California

Floris van Breugel / Alkali fly (Ephydra hians) underwater in protective air bubble, Mono Lake, California, USA.

Floris van Breugel / Mid summer flowers abound in the mountains surrounding Mono Lake, California, USA, July

Suzi Eszterhas / Black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

Bob Steele / Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) male displaying to female at lek, Mono County, California

Juan Carlos Munoz / Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), Sabah Malaysia, Borneo.

Marie Read / Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus), gathering Pinyon Pine seeds in autumn. Mono Lake Basin, California, USA, October.

Marie Read / Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) male calling and performing courtship / territorial display in cattail marsh, Mono Lake Basin, California, USA

Marie Read / Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) male perched by clinging between two cattail stems in marsh, Mono Lake Basin, California, USA

Marie Read / Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) taking flight from tufa tower carrying a fish, Mono Lake, California, USA