Franco Banfi / Bridled parrotfish (Scarus frenatus) clownish grin reveals its power tools: grinding teeth used to scrape algae from rock, Maldives, Indian Ocean. Highly commended in the Underwater World Category of...

David Tipling / Avocets (Avocetta recurvirostra) wheeling over over the scrape at Cley Norfolk Wildlife Trust Reserve, North Norfolk, England, UK, February.

Pal Hermansen / Mountain hare (Lepus timidus) leveret resting in scrape. Lofoten Islands, Norway. August.

David Woodfall / Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) chick walking back to parent sitting on nest -scrape on beach. Gronant beach, Denbighshire, Wales, UK.

David Tipling / Common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) escorts a straggling chick across the scrape, Cley Norfolk, England, UK.

David Tipling / View across the scrape from hide, Titchwell RSPB Reserve, with Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) North Norfolk, England, UK. July.

David Tipling / Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) pair at nest site with female making nest scrape North Norfolk, England, UK. May

Sylvain Cordier / Black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes), adult on nest scrape with one egg, Eastern island, Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii

Tony Wu / Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) female calf with mysterious scraping injuring along its right flank, Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific

Marie Read / Black-necked sStilt (Himantopus mexicanus) pair building nest in shallow wetland: male in foreground is squatting and pushing backwards with his feet/legs to form a nest scrape in vegetation the pair...

Marie Read / Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) pair building nest in shallow wetland, male in foreground in squatting and pushing backwards with his feet/legs to form a nest scrape in vegetation the pair...

Roger Powell / Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) making a nest scrape on a shingle island. Oosterendl, Texel Island, The Netherlands.