David Tipling / Wood sandpiper {Tringa glareola} perched, summer plumage, Greece

Tom Vezo / Green heron with eggs on nest {Butorides virescens} Mexico

Tom Vezo / Green heron {Butorides virescens} Mexico

Tom Vezo / Portrait of Brown pelican {Pelecanus occidentalis} at rest with head tucked into back feathers, California, USA

Tom Vezo / Snowy egret (Egretta thula) with fish prey, Florida, USA

Tom Vezo / Snowy egret (Egretta thula) standing in water, Long Island, New York, USA

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / James flamingoes on Laguna Colorado {Phoenicoparrus jamesi} Bolivia, South America.

John Cancalosi / White stork nest on transmitting towers {Ciconia ing ciconia} Spain.

Tom Vezo / Tricolored heron wading {Egretta tricolor} Texas, USA

Bernard Castelein / Demoiselle cranes {Anthropoides virgo} on sand dunes, Khichan, Rajasthan, India

Thomas Lazar / Snowy egret (Egretta thula) Florida, USA

Tom Vezo / Least sandpiper in river {Calidris minutilla} Tucson Arizona USA

Richard Du Toit / Hammerhead stork landing (Scopus umbretta) Moremi WR Botswana