Rolf Nussbaumer / Dung Beetle (Scarabaeinae) adult rolling dung ball. Laredo, Webb County, South Texas, USA Not available for ringtone/wallpaper use.

Jan Wegener / Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) male in display flight, Winnie, Texas

Karine Aigner / Portrait of a wild male Bobcat (Lynx rufus), Texas, USA. September.

Karine Aigner / Portrait of two wild Bobcat (Lynx rufus) kittens in a tree, Texas, USA. September.

Karine Aigner / Portrait of a wild female Bobcat (Lynx rufus) kitten playing, Texas, USA. September.

Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals / Rattlesnake skins pinned to a wall, with bloody handprints and signatures of those who have skinned snakes at at the annual Rattlesnake Roundup, Sweetwater, Texas, USA. Highly commended in the Wildlif...

Marie Read / Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) on an ice-covered fence after an ice storm, Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, USA. January.

Karine Aigner / Wild Bobcat (Lynx rufus) family of three cubs drinking water from bowl, with mother stretching . The mother chose to make her den underneath the house. Texas, USA, August. Taken with remote camera. Hi...

Jack Dykinga / Storm clouds at sunset over balancing eroded boulder, Texas Canyon, Little Dragoon Mountains, Chihuahuan Desert, Arizona, USA. September.

Seth Patterson / A compilation of items found washed up along a half mile stretch of the high tide line of South Padre Island, Texas. October 2016. Some of the plastic bottles and bags of signs of nip marks from hun...

Jack Dykinga / Granite Boulders in canyon, Little Dragoon Mountains in background in sunset light, Texas, USA, August.

Rolf Nussbaumer / White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica), adults eating Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea) berries, Hill Country, Texas, USA. February

Rolf Nussbaumer / White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica), adults eating Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea) berries, Hill Country, Texas, USA. February

Rolf Nussbaumer / White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica), adult perched on icy branch of Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria), Hill Country, Texas, USA. February

Rolf Nussbaumer / White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica), adult eating Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea) berries, Hill Country, Texas, USA. February

Rolf Nussbaumer / White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica), adult perched on icy branch of Yaupon Holly (Ilex vomitoria), Hill Country, Texas, USA. February

Rolf Nussbaumer / Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii), baby turtle walking towards sea, South Padre Island, South Texas, USA. July

Rolf Nussbaumer / Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus), adult drinking, Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, Texas, USA. June

John Abbott / Glorious scarab (Chrysina gloriosa) flying, Brewster County, Texas, USA. Controlled conditions. August

Huw Cordey / Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) emerging from Bracken Cave, Texas. Over 15 million bats are thought to live in this cave, making it the greatest concentration of mammals on the planet...

John Abbott / Halloween pennant (Celithemis eponina) male in flight, Texas, USA, August.

Bence Mate / Western diamond-backed rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) Texas, USA, April.

Claudio Contreras / Gulf coast ribbon snake (Thamnophis proximus orarius) Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) portrait, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon melanurus erebennus) close up amongst Vervain (Glandularia sp.) flowers, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) flowers at twilight, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Checkered garter snake (Thamnophis marcianus) Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) with nuptial gift calling mate, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) portrait, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Claudio Contreras / Humpback orb-weaver Spider (Eustala sp.) on dew covered web, Laredo Borderlands, Texas, USA. April

Gerrit Vyn / Subadult male Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) in alternate (breeding) plumage. Hidalgo County, Texas. March.

Denis-Huot / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) playing in the waves of an oil tanker, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Denis-Huot / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) playing in the waves of an oil tanker, Port Aransas, Texas, USA

Rolf Nussbaumer / Texas leafcutter ant (Atta texana) workers carrying leaves during rain, New Braunfels, Central Texas, USA. Highly honoured, Small world Spectacular Category, Nature? Best competition 2012.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Solitary bee, adult perched on Mexican hat (Ratibida columnifera) Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Red paper wasp (Polistes carolina) adult in flight, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) young at night climbing live Oak tree (Quercus virginiana) Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) adult fighting with Golden-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons) female over Texas Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia lindheimeri) Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, S...

Rolf Nussbaumer / Long-jawed longhorn beetle (Trachyderes mandibularis) close up head portrait, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica) adult landing on water, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Evening rain lily (Cooperia drummondii) flowering in meadow, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) pair displaying, Dinero, Lake Corpus Christi, South Texas, USA.

MYN / Seth Patterson / Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas) perched, Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Seth Patterson / Mexican Treefrog (Smilisca baudinii) Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Seth Patterson / Forbes' silkmoth (Rothschildia forbesi) Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, October. meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Seth Patterson / Texas bow-legged bug (Hyalymenus tarsatus) nymph on Tamaulipan fiddlewood (Citharexylum berlandieri) berries, Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.n...

MYN / Seth Patterson / Dung beetle (Dichotomius colonicus) in flight, Sabal Palm Sanctuary, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project