Juergen & Christine Sohns / Minden / Leopard (Panthera pardus), Sabi-sands Game Reserve, South Africa
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Guy Edwardes / Sunrise from Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Dorset, UK, April.
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Nick Upton / Heath sand wasp (Ammophila pubescens) excavating a nest burrow in a bare sandy patch of heathland, flying back and forth, carrying away balls of sand between its mandibles and its raised front legs, D...
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Marie Read / Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) excavating nest scrape on beach by squatting and kicking backwards using its feet, Long Island, New York, USA, August.
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Marie Read / Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) brooding small chick in nest on beach, Long Island, New York, USA, August.
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Marie Read / Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger) nesting, one adult feeds a fish to a small chick that emerges from underneath second adult, Long Island, New York USA, August.
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Andy Sands / Green veined white butterfly (Pieris napi) roosting on a Dog Violet flower, Hertofrdshire, England, UK, April - Focus Stacked
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Andy Sands / Acorn Weevil (Curculio glandium) portrait on an Oak leaf, Hertofrdshire, England, UK, April. Focus Stacked
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Andy Sands / Crab spider (Misumena vatia) sitting on a garden flower, Hertfordshire, England, UK, April - Focus Stacked
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Andy Sands / Orange tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) male on Greater stitchwort flower in English woodland, Hertfordshire, England, UK, April.
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Guy Edwardes / Reynisdrangur stacks with long exposure of waves,, Vik i Myrdal, Iceland, September 2015.
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Andy Sands / Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) female walking along ditch at edge of road, Upper Teesdale, Co Durham, England, UK, May
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Andy Sands / Orange tip butterfly (Anthocaris cardamines) on Cuckoo flower / Lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis), Hertfordshire, England, UK, April - Focus Stacked
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Andy Sands / Parasitic wasp (Monosapyga clavicornis) hovering in front of garden bee hotel looking for hosts nests while being watched by the Bee (Chelostoma campanularum) Hertfordshire, England, UK, June
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Dave Bevan / European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) returning to nest with European honey bee (Apis mellifera) prey, digging for entrance, Suffolk, England, UK, July.
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Alex Mustard / Southern stingray (Dasyatis americana) two swimming over sand bar, under stormy sky. Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. British West Indies.
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Milan Radisics / Aerial shot of the Hafursa glacial river running over black sand, southern Iceland, August 2018.
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David Woodfall / Sequence of strips of cultivated Machair with early shoots of Black oats (Avena strigosa) pushing through the sand. North Uist, Scotland, UK, June.
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David Woodfall / Two Little terns (Sterna albifrons) at the nest amongst Black oats (Avena strigosa) growing on shell rich sands Machair, North Uist, Scotland, UK, June.
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David Woodfall / Little tern (Sterna albifrons) at the nest amongst Black oats (Avena strigosa) growing on shell rich sands Machair, North Uist, Scotland, UK, June.
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Marie Lochman / Sandy Bight - Cape Arid National Park, South west, Western Australia, October 2010
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Ross Hoddinott / Sand dunes, marram grass (Ammophila arenaria) and beach at sunrise, Luskentyre, Isle of Harris, Scotland, UK. October 2018
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Theo Bosboom / Patterns of algae on a limestone rock with sand, White sands beach, Causeway coast, Northern Ireland. April 2016.
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Theo Bosboom / Star shaped sand pattern as photographed at low tide at Luskentyre beach, Lewis and Harris, Scotland, UK, October.
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Theo Bosboom / Sand patterns at sunrise, Praia da Adraga, Sintra, Portugal. December 2016
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Theo Bosboom / Sand patterns created by receding waves, Quiberon, Brittany, France. August 2017
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Andy Sands / Oxlips (Primula eliator) growing among Wood Anemones (Anemone nemorosa) good indicators of ancient woodland, Suffolk, England, UK, April
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Andy Sands / Grey partridge (Perdix perdix) three birds on snow covered mound, Bedfordshire, England, UK, December
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Juergen Freund / Wide-angle timelapse of Sand bubbler crabs (Dotillidae) feeding, filtering detritus and plankton from sand and discarding the processed sand as pellets, which cover the beach, Wet Tropics World Herita...
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Juergen Freund / Sand bubbler crabs (Dotillidae) feeding, filtering detritus and plankton from sand and discarding the processed sand as pellets, which cover the beach, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Cape Tribulatio...
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Juergen Freund / Sand bubbler crab (Dotillidae) feeding, filtering detritus and plankton from sand and discarding the processed sand as pellets, which cover the beach, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Cape Tribulation...
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Juergen Freund / Timelapse of Giant sea cucumbers (Thelenota ananas) moving underwater, with a Giant clam (Tridacna gigas) in the background, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, 2015.
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Steven David Miller / Sand bubble patterns created by Sand bubbler crabs (Scopimera inflata), Cape Hillsborough National Park, Queensland, Australia. September.
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Solvin Zankl / Bioluminescent Sea-fireflies (Vargula hilgendorfii) producing a bright blue light. The light is produced by mixing two chemicals together in the presence of oxygen and is for mating displays or defenc...
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Guy Edwardes / Estuary in Luskentyre, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2014.
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Guy Edwardes / Durdle Door at sunrise, Jurassic Coast, Dorset, England, UK. December 2014.
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Sergey Gorshkov / Leopard (Panthera pardus) walking beside waterhole, reflected in the water at dusk. Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa.
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Ashley Cooper / Boreal forest trees clear felled to make way for a new tar sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. August 2012
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Christophe Courteau / Plains zebra (Equus burchelli) drinking in a dust storm, Boteti River, Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
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Carol Walker / Head portrait of grey Arabian stallion running in desert dunes near Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Sergey Gorshkov / Lionesses (Panthera leo) trying to bring down African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa. Sequence 1 of 5
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Sergey Gorshkov / Lionesses (Panthera leo) trying to bring down African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa. Sequence 2 of 5
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Sergey Gorshkov / Lionesses (Panthera leo) trying to bring down African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa. Sequence 3 of 5
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Sergey Gorshkov / Lioness (Panthera leo) trying to bring down African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sands Game Reserve, South Africa. Sequence 4 of 5
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Sergey Gorshkov / Lionesses (Panthera leo) trying to bring down African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sand Game Reserve, South Africa. Sequence 5 of 5
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Sergey Gorshkov / Leopard (Panthera pardus) female fighting off male after he tries to mate with her. Londolozi Private Game Reserve, Sabi Sand Game Reserve, South Africa.
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Klein & Hubert / Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) group of three walking along the shore, Falkland Islands
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Andy Sands / Green hairstreak butterfly (Callophrys rubi) mating pair on hawthorn blossom, Bedfordshire, England, UK, June