Mateusz Piesiak / Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) diving into sea, hunting shellfish, Baltic Sea, Poland. Vogelwarte Photo Competition 2021, Finalist.

Mateusz Piesiak / Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) flock in flight a dawn, Barycz Valley Landscape Park, Poland. Emotion'Ailes Photography Competition 2021 Category Winner - Artistic.

Mateusz Piesiak / Bramblings (Fringilla montifringilla) feeding on sunflower seeds in a field that could not be cut due to high water levels, Lower Silesia, Poland. Emotion'Ailes Photography Competition 2021, Categ...

Mateusz Piesiak / Two Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) foraging in mud in thick fog, Lower Silesia, Poland. Emotion'Ailes Photography Competition 2021, Category Winner - Bird in all its states.

Mateusz Piesiak / Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) flock in flight, Lower Silesia, Poland.

Mateusz Piesiak / Great-crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair courtship display, Lower Silesia, Poland.

Mateusz Piesiak / European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) two perched on branch, Lower Silesia, Poland.

Milan Radisics / Female Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) walking along tree trunk in heavy fog at night. Light source behind the subject creates dramatic volumetric lighting. Vertes Mountains, Hungary.

Hermann Brehm / Spoonbill ( Platalea leucorodia) wading with yellow Water-lily flowers, Hungary

Mateusz Piesiak / Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus) pack in snow, forest in Bialowieza National Park. Poland. January 2019. Received Honour award at the Mont Photo 2020 Competition.

Roy Mangersnes / Melting ice sheet with massive waterfalls running off the Austfonna glacier, the third largest glacier in the world covering most of Nordaustlandet island, eastern Svalbard, Norway. Winner of Tru...

Bence Mate / Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) with marsh frog (Rana ridibundus) that has just woken up from hibernation, Kiskunsag National Park, Hungary. Honoured in the Montier Photo Awards 2020.

Sven Zacek / Brimstone butterfly(Gonepteryx rhamni) male and female during mating flight, early spring. Tartumaa county, Southern Estonia. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Species rich alpine meadow with Orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum), Meadow clary (Salvia pratensis) and Yellow rattle (Rhinathus sp). View towards Campitello di Fassa and mountains, Fassa Valley, Dolomit...

Edwin Giesbers / Three Long-eared owls (Asio otus) looking down from a tree in autumn, Wijchen, The Netherlands, December. Birds in their Habitat Category winner, Expos Photos Aves Emotion'Ailes Competition 2020.

Edwin Giesbers / Long-eared owl (Asio otus) looking down from a tree in autumn, Wijchen, The Netherlands, December. Second Prize Winner, Birds in their Environment Category, Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) 2019...

Staffan Widstrand / Black-capped Night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) feeding on fish at fish farm pond, Pusztaszer protected landscape, Kiskunsagi, Hungary, May

Staffan Widstrand / Great white egret (Egretta / Ardea alba) Pusztaszer protected landscape, Kiskunsagi, Hungary, May

Staffan Widstrand / Eurasian Hoopoe, (Upupa epops) coming out of burrow. Pusztaszer protected landscape, Kiskunsagi, Hungary, May

Oscar Dewhurst / Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) stood upright on short grass. London, England, UK. March.

Bence Mate / Dying Common frogs (Rana temporaria) with their legs removed for food, left to die in their breeding pool surrounded by frogspawn. Covasna, Romania. Winner of Nature category in World Press Photo awar...

Sven Zacek / Ural Owl (strix uralensis) female with talons ready to attack a ringing ornithologist, Tartumaa county, Southern Estonia. May.

Sven Zacek / Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) two males facing off on a lekking site, Varumaa county, Southern Estonia. April.

Sven Zacek / Aerial view of a golden and foggy sunrise over a bog area, Alam-Pedja National Park, Tatrumaa county, Southern Estonia. May.

Klein & Hubert / European ground squirrel / Souslik (Spermophius citellus) standing in a carpet of flowers of Stork's bill (Erodium cicutarium) and holding in his paws a Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) flower before eating it,...

Guy Edwardes / Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) fighting in snow, Bulgaria

Andres M. Dominguez / Black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) Danube Delta, Romania. July

Andres M. Dominguez / European hare (Lepus europaeus), Danube Delta, Romania. July.

Andres M. Dominguez / Great white pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) flying over water, Danube Delta, Romania. July.

Andres M. Dominguez / Golden jackal (Canis aureus) pup sitting on a grassy verge by a path, Danube Delta, Romania, July.

Andres M. Dominguez / Three juvenile Golden jackal (Canis aureus) pups running across a path, Danube Delta, Romania, July.

Sven Zacek / Ural owl (Strix uralensis) female watching fledgling learning to climb and balance on branch. Owlet's first day out of nest. Tartumaa County, Southern Estonia. June.

Joris van Alphen / Aerial view of clearing with felled logs in Bialowieza Forest UNESCO World Heritage Site, Poland. Highly commended in the Wildlife Photojournalism Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awa...

Bence Mate / Dying Common frogs (Rana temporaria) with their legs removed for food, left to die in their breeding pool surrounded by frogspawn. Covasna, Romania. Highly commended in the Wildlife Photojournalism Ca...

Sven Zacek / Ural owl (Strix uralensis) hunting, Tartumaa county, Southern Estonia.

Sven Zacek / Ural owl (Strix uralensis) in flight, hunting, Tartumaa county, Southern Estonia. February.

Sven Zacek / Ural owl (Strix uralensis) nestling, Tartumaa county, Southern Estonia. May.

David Pattyn / Landscape of Hills at the Melnik earth pyramids at sunrise, Foothills of Pirin Mountains, South West Bulgaria, April

David Pattyn / The Melnik Earth Pyramids, rock formations, known as hoodoos, situated at the foothills of the Pirin mountain range in south-western Bulgaria, Bulgaria, April

Guy Edwardes / Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) vocalising with bokeh effect in the background, Danube Wetlands, Bulgaria

Guy Edwardes / Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) vocalising with bokeh effect in the background, Danube Wetlands, Bulgaria

Paul Hobson / Turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) standing at a drinking pool. Hungary. May.

Paul Hobson / Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) preening, close up. Hungary. May.

Markus Varesvuo / White-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) and Taiga bean goose (Anser fabalis rossicus) flocks in flight and on water. Latvia. April.

Markus Varesvuo / Citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) male perched on Reed. Latvia. April.

Sven Zacek / Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum) perched on snow covered branch in evening light. Vorumaa, Southern Estonia. November.

Sven Zacek / Wild boar (Sus scrofa) swimming with head above water in Suur Emajogi River. Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve, Tartumaa, Southern Estonia. November.