Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Spectacular Rustgill (Gymnopilus junonius) mushrooms. Ebernoe Common, West Sussex, England, UK, October.

Andy Rouse / 2020VISION / Short eared owl (Asio flammeus) in flight, hunting, Essex, UK, January. Did you know? The 'ears' of the Short eared owl are not ears but tufts of feathers.

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Tufts of seaweed growing on a shallow seabed, Island of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, June

Andrew Parkinson / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) adult backlit by winter sunlight, Formby Point, Lancashire, UK, December.

Ben Hall / 2020VISION / Silhouette of Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus) in flight at dusk, Lincolnshire, UK, March. Did you know? Short eared owls often hunt by day and although their name derives from tufts of feathers on the...

Nick Upton / Split level view of Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) clumps buoyed up underwater by air bladders at mid tide with tufts of epiphytic filamentous brown alga (Elachista fucicola) growing on its fronds,...

Nick Upton / Tufts of epiphytic filamentous brown alga (Elachista fucicola) growing on fronds of Bladder wrack (Fucus vesiculosus) buoyed up at mid tide, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Ceramium sp.) tufts growing on tips of Thongweed (Himanthalia elongata) fronds just below extreme low water on a spring tide, alongside clumps of Toothed wrack (Fucus serratus) nea...

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Ceramium sp.) tufts growing on tips of Thongweed (Himanthalia elongata) fronds just below extreme low water on a spring tide, near Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

Ben Hall / 2020VISION / Portrait of a Red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) amongst tufts of flowering heather (Ericaceae sp) on moorland, Peak District NP, UK, September 2011

Ben Hall / 2020VISION / Portrait of a Red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus) amongst tufts of flowering heather (Ericaceae sp) on moorland, Peak District NP, UK, September 2011

Adrian Davies / Spectacular Rustgill (Gymnopilus junonius) growing at foot of tree, in woodland, Sussex, England, UK, October

Gerrit Vyn / Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) on the ground, with erect ear tufts. Jefferson County, New York, USA

George McCarthy / Orange pholiota Mushroom tufts {Gymnopilus junonius} Hants, UK

George McCarthy / Orange pholiota Mushroom tufts {Gymnopilus junonius} growing in woodland clearing. Hants, UK

Staffan Widstrand / Tufted ear marmoset hanging upside down {Callithrix jacchus jacchus} Ilha Grande, Brazil.

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta capiguara) fungus garden showing fungal tufts, or gongylidia, and the pores that ants use as walkways to the interior, Brazil

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Ceramium sp.) tufts growing on tips of Thongweed (Himanthalia elongata) fronds just below extreme low water on a spring tide, alongside clumps of Toothed wrack (Fucus serratus) nea...

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Ceramium sp.) tufts growing on tips of Thongweed (Himanthalia elongata) fronds just below extreme low water on a spring tide, alongside clumps of Toothed wrack (Fucus serratus) nea...

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Polysiphonia lanosa) growing in tufts on Knotted wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum) on a rocky shore, Wembury, Devon, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Polysiphonia lanosa) growing in tufts on Knotted wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum) on a rocky shore, Wembury, Devon, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Polysiphonia lanosa) growing in tufts on Knotted wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum) on a rocky shore, with the tide rising in the background, Wembury, Devon, UK, August.

Nick Upton / Epiphytic red alga (Polysiphonia lanosa) growing in tufts on Knotted wrack (Ascophyllum nodosum) on a rocky shore, Wembury, Devon, UK, August.

Mark Moffett / Leafcutter Ant (Atta capiguara) fungus garden showing fungal tufts, or gongylidia, and the pores that ants use as walkways to the interior, Brazil

Rod Williams / Common marmoset face portrait C {Callithrix jacchus}occurs Brazil