Mateusz Piesiak / Alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus) in flight over mountain peaks, Alps, Switzerland.

Alex Hyde / Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris) detail of scutellum. From a dead specimen found in Nottinghamshire, UK. July. Focus stacked using a x20 microscope objective.

Andy Rouse / Mandarin duck (Aythya fuligula) pair on lake in autumn, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK.

Guy Edwardes / Traigh Dhail Beag / Dalbeg beach with long exposure showing water movement over sand, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March, 2023.

Guy Edwardes / Dalmatian pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) flock, squabbling over food on lake, Lake Kerkini, Greece. January.

Alex Mustard / Spinyhead blenny (Acanthemblemaria spinosa) juvenile, looking out from a hole in coral reef, surrounded by brown Boring sponge (Cliona sp.) and Sponge zoanthids (Parazoanthus parasiticus), East End, G...

Alex Mustard / Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) camouflaged among a Sponge on seabed, Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Lembeh Strait, Molucca Sea.

Espen Bergersen / Ice-covered trees in snow, Kvaloya, Troms, Norway. February.

Jack Dykinga / Snow geese (Anser caerulescens) flock taking flight from pond at dawn, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. January.

Sven Zacek / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub watching Butterfly (Lycaenidae sp.) whilst sitting in grass outside of den, Valgamaa county, Estonia.

Espen Bergersen / Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) resting with chicks nestling among its feathers to keep warm, Svalbard, Norway. July.

Nick Garbutt / Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) lunge feeding with flocks of Glaucous-winged gulls (Larus glaucescens) above, Sitka Sound, south east Alaska, USA. March