Doug Allan / Emperor penguin males incubating eggs huddle for warmth at -40 degrees centigrade, winter, Antarctica. Green is excrement on snow. {Aptenodytes forsteri}
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Doug Gimesy / Grey-headed flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) defacating by hanging from thumbs the 'right way up', Yarra Bend Park, Victoria, Australia, April.
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Brian Bevan / Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) feeding chicks and removing fecal sac from nest in garden, Bedfordshire, UK, August
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Dave Bevan / Pair of Grey wagtails (Motacilla cinerea) feeding nestlings and removing faecal sacs before flying out of frame, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, June.
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Tony Wu / Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), ten swimming together in gathering of more than 50 individuals. Whales with flatulence and defecating. Sri Lanka.
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Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) colony huddling, males incubating eggs, on sea ice under full moon in polar night. Atka Bay, Antarctica. July 2017.
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Brian Bevan / Pair of Reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) feeding young at nest, Bedfordshire, England, UK, July.
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Neil Aldridge / Dung beetle (Scarabaeidae) pushing ball of dung on Venetia Limpopo Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
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Dave Bevan / Male Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) entering nest hole and leaving with a faecal sac, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, June.
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Dave Bevan / Female Blackbird (Turdus merula) feeding chicks at nest, removing faecal sacs, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK, June.
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Staffan Widstrand / Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) nesting on wall of house, Vardo town, Varanger Peninsula, Norway, March.
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Simon Colmer / Dung beetle (Scarabaeidae) rolling dung, Malawi. November.
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Ammonite / Male Yellow dung flies (Scathophaga stercoraria) fighting over a female on a cowpat, UK.
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Ammonite / Male Yellow dung flies (Scathophaga stercoraria) fighting over a female on a cowpat, UK.
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Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) adult male in spring plumage feeding on dung flies at farm midden heap, Hertfordshire, UK, April
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Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Yellow wagtail (Motacilla flava flavissima) adult male in spring plumage feeding on dung flies at farm midden heap, Hertfordshire, UK, April. Did you know? Yellow wagtails commonly used to nest in wat...
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Chris Gomersall / 2020VISION / Northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) adult male in spring plumage feeding on dung flies at farm midden heap, Hertfordshire, UK, April
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Geslin / Kestrel (Falco tinninculus) perched in roosting hole in stone building in the Vatican garden, Rome, Italy, March 2010
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Stephen Dalton / House mouse (Mus musculus) in biscuit packet, UK, controlled conditions
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Möllers / Field of Meadow saffron crocus (Colchicum autumnale) one growing in cow dung, Mohacs, Béda-Karapancsa, Duna Drava NP, Hungary, September 2008
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Ruiz / Fallen leaves, pine needles animal fecal pellets in woodland on Stribrne Steny (459m) Hrensko, Ceske Svycarsko / Bohemian Switzerland National Park, Czech Republic, November 2008
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Andy Sands / Common house fly (Musca domestica) on cow dung, captive
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Kim Taylor / Green Dung Beetle (Garreta nitens) rolling a dung ball. Namibia, Africa.
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Rolf Nussbaumer / Dung beetle rolling dung ball {Canthon sp} Texas, USA.
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Andrew Parkinson / Flightless dung beetle {Circellium bacchus) female rolling buffalo dung to lay egg in S Africa
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Andrew Parkinson / Flightless dung beetle {Circellium bacchus} female rolling buffalo dung ball to lay egg in , Addo Elephant park, South Africa
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Dave Watts / Droppings of Spanish lynx {Lynx pardina} Spain
Jose B. Ruiz / Spanish ibex droppings {Capra pyrenaica} Avila, Spain
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Adrian Davies / Red deer droppings {Cervus elaphus} UK
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Neil Challis / Katydid (Phaneroptera sp.) eating a bird dropping from a leaf, Western Thailand.
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Neil Challis / Katydid (Phaneroptera sp.) approaching, then eating a bird dropping on a leaf, Western Thailand.
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Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Stephen Rubanga, a veterinary technician with CTPH, processing gorilla fecal samples in a laboratory, Uganda.
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Jussi Murtosaari / Western capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) faeces in snow, Finland. March.
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Roland Seitre / Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) colony, nesting on cliff face, Peru.
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Roland Seitre / Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) colony standing on huge pile of guano, Guanape Islands, La Libertad, Peru.
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Roland Seitre / Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) colony standing on huge pile of guano, Guanape Islands, La Libertad, Peru.
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Roland Seitre / Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) colony surrounded by dust with sacks of guano in the foreground, Guanape Islands, La Libertad, Peru.
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Roland Seitre / Guanay cormorant (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii) colony with sacks of guano in foreground, Guanape Islands, La Libertad, Peru.
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Linda Pitkin / Chalk hill blue butterflies (Polyommatus coridon) congregating on animal dung, horse faeces, to feed on minerals, Surrey, England. August.
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Ashley Cooper / Yellow dung flies (Scathophaga stercoraria) mating on a cow pat, Yorkshire Dales National Park, Yorkshire, UK. August.
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Oliver Wright / Hornet robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis) on horse manure with beetle (Scarabaeidae) prey. Oxford, UK
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Nick Upton / Egghead mottlegill mushroom (Panaeolus semiovatus) growing on horse dung in grassland clearing surrounded by woods, New Forest, Hampshire, UK, October.
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Nick Upton / Egghead mottlegill mushrooms (Panaeolus semiovatus) growing on horse dung in grassland clearing surrounded by woods, New Forest, Hampshire, UK, October.
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Terry Whittaker / Brunnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) and Common guillemot (Uria aalge) nesting on sea stack, Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, Westfjords, Iceland.
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Konrad Wothe / Guillemots (Uria aalge) group standing on an icy ledge stained with excrement, Northern fulmars (fulmarus glacialis) nesting nearby, Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, Iceland. March.
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Neil Aldridge / Wing scales and other body parts of moth prey seen through microscope in dung of Grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus). July.
