Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Giant Octopus (Octopus dofleini) attacking a ship, 1815 copperplate engraving from Bertuch's 'Bilderbuch fur kinder' 16 plate 5. with contemporary colour. 'Colosal Polypus' (octopus) a...

Francisco Marquez / Volunteer weighing a Greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) juvenile while another volunteer notes the data during the ringing process, Fuente de Piedra lagoon, Malaga, Spain. August.

Ingo Arndt / Dr. Uwe Homberg, taking notes and observing experimental set-up to investigate the orientation behaviour of Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria). The grasshopper is fixed and placed behind a fan. Th...

Pat Tuson / Please recycle printed on the bottom of envelopes received through the post along with recycling and FSC logo, London, UK March 2015.

Pat Tuson / Pile of unopened envelopes containing clothing catalogues and showing recycle logo London, UK, January 2015.

Pat Tuson / Man's hands holding pile of catalogues for recycling, Holloway, London Borough of Islington, England, UK, January 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Hands of woman writing on clipboard. Recording fish counts as part of the Eddleston Water Project, where sections of river are being re-naturalised to improve biodiversity and reduce flooding. Peebles...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Field workers ringing Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) chick, Glen Tanar Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, June 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Field workers recording data from Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) chick, Glen Tanar Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, June 2015.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Field worker weighing Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) chick with other field worker recording, Glen Tanar Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, June 2015.

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) biologist, David Cooper, taking notes on Argali (Ovis ammon) male killed by snow leopard, Sarychat-Ertash Strict Nature Reserve, Tien Shan Mountains, eastern Kyrgyzstan

Sebastian Kennerknecht / Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) biologist, Shannon Kachel, taking notes on Siberian Ibex (Capra sibirica) male killed by snow leopard, Sarychat-Ertash Strict Nature Reserve, Tien Shan Mountains, eastern...

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Post mortem notes of Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia), probably a Domestic cat (Felis catus) hybrid, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 2016.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Banknotes of Costa Rica showing illustrations of Costa Rican animals including Sloths, Capuchins and Sharks. December 2014.

Alex Hyde / Person writing notes at moth trapping event, with Dusky Thorn moth (Ennomos fuscantaria) on paper. The National Forest, Leicestershire, UK. September.

Sam Hobson / Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) chick being ringed whilst notes and measurements are taken. Somerset, UK. May 2013.

David Tipling / Woman making notes at Red Tower watchpoint soon after dawn, monitoring hunters and bird migration, BirdLife Malta Springwatch Camp, April 2013

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination notes. Details are kept of all traps that have been tripped, and basic health checks are noted of all badgers vaccinated. Cheshire / Shropshire bor...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination, including bedding in with vegetation along natural badger '...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. Traps are carefully set into natural badger 'runs' along he...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. Traps are carefully set into natural badger 'runs' along he...

Tom Marshall / Badger (Meles meles) bovine tuberculosis vaccination deployment. Staff from Cheshire Wildlife Trust, UK, prepare live traps for vaccination. Notes on the cage inform anyone coming across the trap of t...

Charlie Summers / Maasai gong rock found at Moru Kopies. This rock produces music when pounded on with another rock. Various notes are made depending on where the rocks are hit and worn places can be seen where this oc...

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / School child writing notes on upland ecology as part of Flora of the Fells day. Helvellyn, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, September.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Written notes of a school child learning about upland ecology as part of Flora of the Fells day. Helvellyn, Lake District National Park, Cumbria, September.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Writing notes for Red squirrel monitoring project as part of Flora of the Fells conservation day. Helvellyn, Lake District NP, Cumbria, September.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Préau / Man holding Great tit (Parus major) while writing notes, birds caught in net for ringing, in an allotment, Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, France, September 2010, model released

Inaki Relanzon / Man looking up into trees, taking notes while researching Silky sifakas (Propithecus candidus) Marojejy National Park, North Madagascar, November 2011

Inaki Relanzon / Man researching Silky sifakas (Propithecus candidus) taking notes, Marojejy National Park, North Madagascar, November 2010

Peter Cairns / naturepl.com / Researcher takes field notes on Upland water vole (Arvicola terrestris) as part of Cairngorms Water Vole Conservation Project, Scotland, UK, July 2008

Peter Cairns / naturepl.com / Researcher records field notes on Upland water vole (Arvicola terrestris) as part of Cairngorms Water Vole Conservation Project, Scotland, UK, July 2008

Tim Laman / Primatologists, Tom Butynski and Jacob Owens, take notes on a monkey encounter during the trek into the caldera, Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition, International Leag...

Dietmar Nill / Bat conservationists holding a bat and making notes, Brandenburg, Germany

Jaymi Heimbuch / Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) biologist taking notes at night, Newport, Oregon

Jaymi Heimbuch / Coyote (Canis latrans) biologist, Steven Plesh, notes down frequencies and location data of nearby radio-collared coyotes on college campus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Paul D Stewart / The 'leisure Hour' January 1859, a pickled gorilla propped up with stick from the barrel in which it was preserved. It is a specimen from Paul Du Chaillu intended (as the label on the barrel lid state...

Paul D Stewart / Great Argus Pheasant feather (Argusianus argus). Composite photograph of Argus secondary wing feather left and right Fig 56. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Rela...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Prof. Darwin' coloured lithograph by Faustin Betbeder, with original Shakespeare quotes in text below. Front page of the 'Figaro' paper N. 475, London Wednesday February 18th 1874. It...

Paul D Stewart / Reconstruction of the neanderthal 'Man of Chapelle-Aux Saints' by Mr. Kupka (scientifically advised by Marcellin Boule) for the Illustrated London News (ILN), Feb 27th, 1909. This image stuck with the...

Paul D Stewart / Reconstruction of the neanderthal 'Man of Chapelle-Aux Saints' by Mr. Kupka (scientifically advised by Marcellin Boule) for the Illustrated London News (ILN), Feb 27th, 1909. This image stuck with the...

Paul D Stewart / Detail of Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus argus) zoo specimen, from SE Asia. Secondary wing feathers showing ocelli. Page 143 Vol II of Charles Darwin 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Viscacha (Lagidium sp.). Plate 42 from Volume 1 Trans Zool Soc London, 1835, 'Additional remarks on the Genus Lagotis, with some account of a second species referrible to it' with cont...

Paul D Stewart / 1698 illustration of William Dampier, naturalist, explorer and buccaneer (August 1651 - March 1715). A posthumous 1787 Copperplate engraving by Charles Sherwin after the 1698 painting by T. Murray. On...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of Edward Lear's first fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox). Plate 14 from Volume 1 Trans Zool Soc London, 1835, 'Notice of a Mammiferous Animal from Madagascar, constituting a New Form among the V...

Paul D Stewart / 1834 steel engraving with contemporary hand colouring, the earliest coloured reconstruction of extinct fossil animals. It is from Guerin's Dictionnaire pittoresque Vol 1. plate 24. Numbered it include...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of the extinct Falkland Island Wolf or Fox (Dusicyon australis). Hand coloured lithograph, Plate IV, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, edited and superintended by Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / First engraving of Gideon Mantell's Hylaeosaurus discovery in the Tilgate forest quarry of the Weald. It represents only the third dinosaur to be discovered and named. Drawn and lithographed by F. Pol...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of 'Beagle laid ashore, River Santa Cruz'. Copperplate engraving, art by Conrad Martens, engraved by T. Landseer. Published by H. Colburn 1838. Plate from 'The Narrative of the Surveying...

Paul D Stewart / Elephant skeleton engraving in Cuvier's 'Ossamens Fossiles' (1812). Cuvier, the master of comparative anatomy, referenced modern species with extinct fossils to reveal their affinities and differences...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

Paul D Stewart / Illustrationg of great white shark jaw with fossil shark teeth, copperplate after Nicolas Steno 1667. Steno produced a book 'Head of a shark dissected' from his dissection of a great white shark caugh...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut with old colouring of shark and shark tooth fossil from Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560 (also 1558 in Historiae Animalium, Liber IIII). This is the first West...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of Satyrus marinus - a sea monster or mermaid of partially human form, with old colouring. Gesner 'Icones Animalium' publ. Christof Froschover, Zurich, 1560. Gesner reproduced thi...

Paul D Stewart / The Illustrated London News, December 31st, 1853, page 600. 'The Extinct Animals Model-Room, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham' by P.H. Delamotte. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins made the first full size re...

Onne van der Wal / Banknotes and a local chart from the Seychelles islands, Indian Ocean

Premaphotos / Dung beetles (Megathopa villosa) making a ball of Coati dung in rainforest, notes seeds in the dung, Argentina

Flip Nicklin / Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) research notes taken by Dr James Darling while observing whales, southeast Alaska

Flip Nicklin / Dwarf Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) researcher Alistair Birtles working on notes, Australia

Flip Nicklin / Dwarf Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) researchers Peter Arnold and Alistair Birtles compare research notes, Australia

Flip Nicklin / Dwarf Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) researchers Alistair Birtles, Monique Matthews and Peter Arnold compare research notes, Australia

Christian Ziegler / Bonobo (Pan paniscus) biologist taking notes, Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Tui De Roy / Conservationist making notes,with tray of Galapagos tortoise eggs. Fausto Llerena Tortoise Breeding Centre run by the Galapagos National Park Directorate, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos.