Marie Read / American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) adult feeding chick, Long Island, New York, USA. June.

Marie Read / Eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), pair, one adult feeding one of two chicks riding on the other adult's back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA

Marie Read / Eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), pair, one adult carrying food (damselfly) for two chicks riding on the other adult's back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA

Marie Read / Eared grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), pair, one adult feeding chick riding on the other adult's back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA

Yukihiro Fukuda / Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata fuscata) mother with rare white furred baby, Jigokudani Valley, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. June.

Hermann Brehm / Crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) with chicks, Ndutu, Tanzania.

Hermann Brehm / Crowned crane (Balearica regulorum) with chicks, Ndutu, Tanzania.

Marie Read / Common mergansers (Mergus merganser) family, female swimming with seventeen ducklings, some of which are riding on her back, Lansing, New York, USA, June.

Marie Read / Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) adult brooding chicks, one chick stretching its wings after being brooded, northern Massachusetts, USA. June. Endangered species.

Marie Read / Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) brooding three chicks with a fourth approaching, northern Massachusetts, USA.June. Endangered species.

Marie Read / Eared Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis), adult feeds a damselfly nymph to one of two chicks riding on its back, Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, USA, June.

Christophe Courteau / Mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei), baby in arms of mother. Volcanoes National Park. Rwanda.