Alex Mustard / Backlit detail of branching fire coral (Millepora alcicornis) showing the hair like polyps, filled with stinging nematocysts. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Caribbean Sea.
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Cyril Ruoso / Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) seen from burrow, Iceland. July.
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Gabriel Rojo / Scimitar-billed woodcreeper (Drymornis bridgesii) at nest hole, Calden forest, La Pampa, Argentina.
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Espen Bergersen / Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) squabbling on ice. Svalbard, Norway. July
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Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Cape gannet (Morus capensis) colony, Bird Island Nature Reserve, Lambert's Bay, West Coast, South Africa.
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Pal Hermansen / Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) feeding young on steering wheel of abandoned car in 'car graveyard' Varmland, Sweden, June
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Diane McAllister,Diane McAllister / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) females gather at one end of the hot springs, Jigokudani, Japan, February
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Juan Carlos Munoz / Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) troop, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia, Africa
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Ernie Janes / Mediterranean gull (Larus melanocephalus) feeding with Black headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) Norfolk, England, UK, April.
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Carol Walker / RF - Three wild Mustang bachelor stallions, head portrait of two pinto and one black meeting at waterhole, McCullough Peaks, Wyoming, USA. June. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or...
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Ann & Steve Toon / RF - Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) gathering on telegraph wires over farmland, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, March. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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David Tipling / RF - King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) in group. Holmestrand, South Georgia. January. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)