Solvin Zankl / A Costa Rican researcher monitors the temperature in the developing sea turtle nests at Ostional beach, Costa Rica, November 2009. ^^^ Sea turtles have, like many other reptiles, temperature-dependent...
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David Woodfall / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeas) caught in trap to prevent it from predating Little tern and other ground nesting birds' eggs on Machair. This pregnant female will be relocated to the mainland. Nort...
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David Woodfall / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeas) caught in trap to prevent it from predating Little tern and other ground nesting birds' eggs on Machair. This pregnant female will be relocated to the mainland. Nort...
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Terry Whittaker / RF - Gannet (Morus bassanus) nesting colony on Skoruvikurbjarg cliffs above rough sea, Northeast Iceland. May. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Andy Sands / Resin bee (Heriades truncorum) this small Bee uses resin to seal her nest cells until recently a rare species of lowland heath they can now be found nesting in garden bee hotels across southern Englan...
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David Woodfall / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeas) caught in trap to prevent it from predating Little Terns and other ground nesting birds in machair habitat. This pregnant female will be relocated to the Scottish mainla...
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David Woodfall / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeas) caught in trap to prevent it from predating Little Terns and other ground nesting birds in machair habitat. This pregnant female will be relocated to the Scottish mainla...
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David Woodfall / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeas) caught in trap to prevent it from predating Little Terns and other ground nesting birds in machair habitat. This pregnant female will be relocated to the Scottish mainla...
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Nick Upton / Six nest boxes for Common swifts (Apus apus) in a roof space with swift brick entrance holes and perspex backs so nesting birds can be monitored by a cctv camera and a call playback system, with one n...
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David Pattyn / RF - Gannet (Morus bassanus) courtship offering nesting material to each other, Saltee Islands, Republic of Ireland. June (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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David Pattyn / RF - Gannet (Morus bassanus) close-up portrait with nesting material in beak, Saltee Islands, Republic of Ireland. June (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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LYNN M. STONE / RF - Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) adult feeding fish to chick in nesting colony on upper beach of Gulf of Mexico shore. Sarasota, Florida, USA. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed o...
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Danny Green / RF- Gannets (Morus bassanus) gathering nesting material, Great Saltee, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. April . (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Danny Green / RF- Two Gannets (Morus) with nesting material. Great Saltee, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. April . (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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David Tipling / RF - Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) flying with stick for nest. Camargue, Provence, France. May. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Hermann Brehm / Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) building nest surrounded be ice, Bavaria, Germany, March.
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Denis-Huot / RF- Village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) male building nest, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / RF- European bee eater (Merops apiaster) pair at nest hole, Danube delta rewilding area, Romania, June. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Solvin Zankl / The arrival of one Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) at the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica, Pacific coast, can be the beginning of an arribada (mass nesting event) of the sea turtles. No...
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Solvin Zankl / The arrival of one Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) at the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica, Pacific coast, can be the beginning of an arribada (mass nesting event) of the sea turtles. Tho...
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Solvin Zankl / The arrival of one Olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) at the beach of Ostional, Costa Rica, Pacific coast, can be the beginning of an arribada (mass nesting event) of the sea turtles. ^^^...
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Solvin Zankl / A Costa Rican researcher monitors the temperature in the developing Olive Ridley sea turtle nests at Ostional beach, Costa Rica, November 2009. ^^^ Sea turtles have, like many other reptiles, temperat...
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Georgette Douwma / Giant / Titan triggerfish (Balistoides viridescens) feeding on coral reef and attracting wrasses, a bream, boxfish and butterflyfish, all hoping for scraps. One of the most feared fish by divers becau...
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Gerrit Vyn / Flock of Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus) oil covered fledglings wait to be fed in a nesting colony on Queen Bess Island. These birds have little chance of survival as their feathers are too damaged, a...
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / RF- White storks (Ciconia ciconia) nesting on poles erected by the city of Caceres in Extremadura, Spain, to compensate for the removal of an old farmhouse supporting a colony of storks. (This image m...
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Tony Heald / RF- Yellow billed stork (Mycteria ibis) in flight carrying nesting material in beak, Chobe national park, Botswana. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Flip de Nooyer / Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) with feathers in beak to be used as nesting material during breeding season, Europe
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Phil Chapman / White / Fairy Tern (Gygis alba) perched on branch next to single egg, Henderson Island. The chick must hatch and grow to fledging without once toppling off its perch. If it falls it will be eaten by...
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Ann & Steve Toon / RF - Southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus) male, nest building, Kruger National Park, South Africa. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Andres M. Dominguez / RF - Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) perched on rocks with nesting material in beak, Great Saltee Island, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland. May. (This image may be licensed either as rights manage...
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David Pattyn / RF - White stork (Ciconia ciconia) colony nesting on roof of an abandoned monastery, Extremadura, Spain. May. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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David Pattyn / RF - White stork (Ciconia ciconia) colony nesting on roof of an abandoned monastery in evening light, Extremadura, Spain. May. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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David Pattyn / RF - White stork (Ciconia ciconia) colony nesting on roof of an abandoned monastery in evening light, Extremadura, Spain. May. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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David Pattyn / RF - Whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) arriving at nest among aquatic vegetation, mainly Water soldiers (Stratiotes aloides), with nesting material in beak, Danube delta, Romania. July. (This image...
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Solvin Zankl / Poppy bee (Osmia papaveris) cutting piece of petal from Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) to be used as nesting material. Bamberg, Germany. June.
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Solvin Zankl / Poppy bee (Osmia papaveris) cutting piece of petal from Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) to be used as nesting material. Bamberg, Germany. June.
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Solvin Zankl / Poppy bee (Osmia papaveris) cutting piece of petal from Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) to be used as nesting material. Bamberg, Germany. June.
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Solvin Zankl / Poppy bee (Osmia papaveris) cutting piece of petal from Common poppy (Papaver rhoeas) to be used as nesting material. Bamberg, Germany. June.
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Jiri Lochman / Potter wasp (Delta latreillei) female, collecting soil from freshly built section of a termite mound and mixing it with the water, the wet muddy soil will be used to build the mud nest, Durba Hills, L...
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Jiri Lochman / Potter wasp (Pseudabispa bicolor) collecting water to be used in building mud nest, Kata Kata Hills, Gibson Desert, Western Australia.
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Bernard Castelein / RF - Village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) building nest on end of tree branch, Allahein River, The Gambia. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Claudio Contreras / Teresa Luna, from CONANP, recording Olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nest location so that the number of eggs hatched can be studied later, and Sebastian Garcia, from WILDCOAST, counting eg...
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Jiri Lochman / Spider hunter wasp (Episyron sp.) female, excavating nest chamber with an anesthetized Wolf spider (Lycosidae) ready to be placed in there as food provision for wasp larva, Fortescue River Estuary, Pi...
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Jiri Lochman / Spider hunter wasp (Episyron sp.) female, excavating nest chamber with an anesthetized Wolf spider (Lycosidae) ready to be placed in there as food provision for wasp larva, Fortescue River Estuary, Pi...
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Alex Mustard / RF - Two spot goby (Gobiusculus flavescens) nesting in an old Common sea urchin (Echinus esculentus) shell, Loch Carron, Highlands, Scotland, UK. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed o...
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Andy Rouse / RF - Common shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) portrait of nesting bird, Farne Islands, UK. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Ingo Arndt / A tree marked with a sign which tells forest officials that it is a protected tree with a black woodpecker nest cavity which may be used by nesting Honey bees (Apis mellifera), Germany.
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Pal Hermansen / RF - Black-headed weaver (Ploceus melanocephalus) male building nest. Maasai Mara, Kenya. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Terry Whittaker / Sand martin (Riparia riparia) chicks begging to be fed by returning parent, Greater Manchester, UK.
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Sylvain Cordier / RF-Village weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) male building nest. Lake Ziway, Rift Valley, Ethiopia. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free)
