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00025278
FARMING LANDSCAPE
Barley field and farmstead
near Fredrikstad, Norway

00025253
HAIL & lodgepole pine branch
Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

00025252
LENTICULAR CLOUDS
Altocumulus lenticularis on weather
front, Caused by wind-induced wave
patterns, often on lee of mountains

00025240
NORTH AMERICAN BLACK BEAR
Ursus americanus
Glacier Natl Park, Montana, USA

00025232
ARCTIC PACK-ICE
Eastern Canada

00025214
TUNDRA VEGETATION
Richardson Mountains, Yukon Territory,
north western Canada

00025187
HOVERFLY in flight
Volucella pellucens
England

00025180
DRONEFLY in flight
Eristalis tenax

00025168
COMMON BENT
Agrostis capillaris
in seed

00025160
HORNET in flight to nest
Vespa crabro

00025138
HOUSE SPIDER in web
Tegenaria atrica

00025125
SUNDEW leaf detail insectivorous
Drosera capensis
Fam. Droseraceae
Prey is trapped on sticky leaf hairs

00025118
ROUND POND Autumn
West Sussex, southern England

00025107
WOODLAND STREAM in spring
with Bluebells West Sussex, England

00025099
COMMON FROG tadpoles
Rana temporaria
eating earthworm

00025077
TREE CREEPER
Certhia familiaris
in flight

00025069
BRITISH BLUE KITTEN

00025039
WILLOW WARBLER in flight
Phylloscopus trochilus

00025024
WOODY NIGHTSHADE or
BITTERSWEET
Solanum dulcamara
berries Lancashire, England

00024996
RANNOCH MOOR in winter
Blackrock Cottage in snow
Highland Region, Scotland

00024988
BUACHAILLE ETIVE MOR
From Stob Beinn a Chrulaiste
Highland Region, NW Scotland

00024985
BLEA TARN
Lake District National Park,
Cumbria, England Winter

00024979
MALLARD male on grass
Anas platyrhynchos
Lancashire, England

00024966
POLLACK with skin disease
Pollachius pollachius
& harbouring parasites

00024952
LAMPREHUELA LOACH
Cobitis calderoni
Spain Vulnerable species

00024945
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE & chick
Alectoris rufa
UK

00024932
WIND TURBINE
Blyth, Northumberland, England

00024909
PALMS & SAND DUNES
Merzouga, Morocco

00024899
OILED SCOTER being cleaned
after Sea Empress oil spill, Feb. 1996
RSPCA, Norfolk

00024884
ROBIN on twig Spring
Erithacus rubecula
with nesting material in beak

00024875
NORTHERN EMERALD DRAGONFLY
Somatochlora arctica
on heather Eire

00024843
BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS chick
Diomedea melanophris
in nest. Falkland Islands, Sub-Antarctic

00024824
MOSS
Iceland

00024817
BASALT STONE ARCH & coastline
Arnarstapi, Iceland Summer

00024801
AUTUMN COLOURS & REFLECTIONS
Mirage Lake, Schoolcraft County,
Michigan, northern USA

00024796
SWAMP ROSE (wild) Summer
Rosa palustris
Chippewa County, Michigan, USA

00024794
BLACK SPRUCE cones with dew
Picea mariana
Tahquamenon Falls State Park,
Michigan, USA Summer

00024777
WINGATE SANDSTONE FORMATION
with layer of Navajo sandstone
(pale colour) Capitol Reef National Park,
Utah, mid-western USA

00024732
LODGEPOLE PINE FOREST
Pinus contorta Fam. Pinaceae
Grand Teton National Pk, Wyoming, USA

00024716
SHOWY LADY'S SLIPPER ORCHID
Cypripedium reginae
Alpena, Michigan, USA Summer

00024714
ARIZONA BARREL CACTUS
Ferocactus wislizenii
on rocky terrain. Saguaro National
Monument, Arizona, south western USA

00024670
POTHOLE POOL on slickrock, reflecting
red rock formation.
Canyonlands National Park, Utah, USA

00024638
PISTACHIO TREE with nuts
Badkhyz, Turkmenistan

00024626
AFRICAN LION cubs by adult
Panthera leo
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

00024616
HIPPOPOTAMUS charging in water
Hippopotamus amphibius
Okavango, Botswana

00024611
SPOTTED HYENA & WHITE-BACKED
VULTURES on elephant carcass
Crocuta crocuta & Gyps africanus
Okavango, Botswana

00024594
NETTING OF SONGBIRDS e.g.Larks
Nets 50m apart, spring-operated to fold back. Landes, SW France

00024573
DEAD FOREST killed by acid rain
& heavy metal pollution
Norilsk, Siberia, Russia

00024520
MONASAVU HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME
Flooded rainforest lake Fiji, South Pacific

00024490
RAINBOW WARRIOR - flagship of the
international environment organisation
Greenpeace, at Papeete, Tahiti to protest
the resumption of underground nuclear >>

00024470
PERMA-FROST on Kara-Say Plateau,
altitude 3580m (Borkolday range, 4500m,
in background) Inner Tien-Shan mountain
range, Kyrgyzstan, Asia June

00024468
STEPPE with wild Poppies
Papaver sp.
Central Kazakhstan, Asia May

00024465
AMERICAN KESTREL pair
Falco sparverius
Puerto Lopez, Colombia

00024455
NUEVA VENECIA VILLAGE FLOODED
Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta,
Colombia, South America

00024444
FILETAIL CATSHARK
Parmaturus xaniurus
Monterey, California, USA

00024419
CALIFORNIA SPINY LOBSTER

00024403
SPOTTED DOLPHIN
Stenella frontalis
two playing with Sea Fan, Bahamas Banks, North Atlantic Ocean.

00024386
EASTERN WHITE-BEARDED
WILDEBEEST group running in water
Connochaetes taurinus albojubatus
Lake Ndutu, Tanzania

00024342
PROBOSCIS MONKEY courtship
Nasalis larvatus
Kinabatangan River, Sabah,
Borneo, Malaysia

00024317
LESSER HEDGEHOG TENREC
Echinops telfairi
Hazafotsy Spiny Forest,
southern Madagascar

00024292
GRANITE OUTCROP
& lowland rainforest
Marojejy National Park,
north eastern Madagascar

00024291
TOURISTS TREKKING through rainforest
Marojejy National Park,
northeastern Madagascar

00024290
SLASH & BURN CLEARANCE
OF RAINFOREST
Spiny forest, Ifaty,
southwestern Madagascar

00024289
OCTOPUS TREES in spiny forest
Didiera trolli
Near Toliara, southwestern Madagascar

00024234
CHIMPANZEE
Pan troglodytes
hanging from branch by arms
Northern Zambia, eastern Africa

00024212
HARTLAUB'S TURACO on log
Tauraco hartlaubi
Highlands of Kenya, eastern Africa

00024206
SALTMARSH WITH BRACKISH WATER
Blakeney, Norfolk East Anglia, UK

00024205
WATER MONITOR or LEGUAAN
Varanus niloticus
swimming Umfozoli, South Africa

00024196
VELVET MITE with prey
UK September Magn. x 5.1

00024194
BLUEBOTTLE laying eggs
Calliphora vomitoria
on dead Grey Squirrel, Sciurus
carolinensis. UK July Magn. x 1.4

00024149
GENTIAN close-up of flowers
Gentiana verna
Bulgaria

00024126
BLOODY-NOSED BEETLES mating
Timarcha tenebricosa
New Forest, Hampshire, England

00024118
DATE large bunch, typical of oasis crop,
ripening on palm

00024106
Illegal trade in Scarlet Macaws,
Costa Rica

00024071
BLACK-FACED SPOONBILLS
Platalea minor
two in flight Hong Kong

00024055
PALM leaves
Daintree National Park,
Queensland, Australia

00024033
NORTHWEST CRIMSON COLUMBINE
Aquilegia formosa
ALaska, USA Woodland plant

00024001
CARIBBEAN REEF SHARKS over reef
Carcharhinus perezi
Northern Bahamas. Atlantic Ocean.

00023938
WAXWING on berries
Bombycilla garrulus
Midlands, England January

00023931
RING OUZEL male on branch
Turdus torquatus
Spain February

00023917
POND HERON by water
Ardeola grayii
Oman August

00023912
BLACKBIRD male at berries
Turdus merula
Worcestershire, England November

00023904
SANDERLING group in flight
Calidris alba
Oman November

00023895
CIRL BUNTING male on bare branch
Emberiza cirlus
Devonshire, UK February

00023873
DROMEDARY CAMEL silhouetted
Camelus dromedarius
at sunset. Oman. November

00023867
URAL OWL on branch
Strix uralensis
in captivity August

00023833
EMPEROR DRAGONFLY
Anax imperator
male, on reed Kenfig Pool,
Mid Glamorgan, southern Wales

00023826
ARMY or DRIVER ANTS
Dorylus sp.
Predatory ant forming colonies of up
to 20 million Dzanga-Ndoki Natl Pk, >>

00023790
PYGMY OF THE BAKA TRIBE carrying
killed Duiker (subsistence hunter)
Cameroon & Central African Republic

00023788
PYGMY MAN OF THE BAKA TRIBE
hunting (subsistence hunter)
Cameroon & Central African Republic

00023781
GIANT BULLFROG on rock
Pyxicephalus adspersus
Southern Africa Males can be over 250 mm in body length & weigh over 1kg

00023765
GIANT MOLE RAT in burrow entrance
Tachyoryctes macrocephalus
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Endemic to Bale Mountains. Also called Big-headed mole rat

00023760
ETHIOPIAN WOLF near domestic cattle
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.
Large numbers of cattle inhabit the park. >>

00023740
ETHIOPIAN WOLF digging for rodents
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia.

00023723
ETHIOPIAN WOLF
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia. World's rarest Canidae.

00023706
BAT-EARED FOX resting
Otocyon megalotis
Kalahari, South Africa. Nocturnal in summer, diurnal in winter.

00023695
SURICATE or MEERKAT sentinel
Suricata suricatta
Kalahari, South Africa.

00023684
KING PROTEA
Protea cynaroides
Fynbos species
Cape Floral Kingdom South Africa

00023652
WATTLED CRANE chick being fed
Grus carunculata
by puppet to avoid imprinting by humans
Captive breeding project >>

00023591
MANDRILL male
Mandrillus sphinx
Bright colours of males display
sexual fitness Rainforest species

00023587
WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLA
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
fed milk by keeper. Project Protection
des Gorilles,Gabon & Congo >>

00023569
HELMETED GUINEAFOWL
Numida meleagris
Etosha National Park, Namibia

00023562
ALOE VERA sap being applied to skin
Aloe barbadensis
Succulent with gel-like sap high in pectin,
used in medicine and cosmetics

00023543
CARACAL LYNX by reserve fence
Felis caracal
Okonjima Reserve, Namibia. Very strong fences are needed >>

00023542
CHEETAH wearing radio collar
Acinonyx jubatus
(used to monitor movement)
AfriCat Foundation, Namibia

00023535
DRIED CRACKED MUD
Namib Desert, Namibia,
south western Africa

00023526
OKAVANGO DELTA
aerial view
Botswana

00023520
BILLABONG
Kakadu National Park,
Northern Territory, Australia

00023495
SABINYO VOLCANO >>
with heavily forested slopes
Virunga National Park, Democratic
Republic of Congo, central Africa

00023488
BAYEI TRIBES PEOPLE
in mokoros silhouetted
Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa

00023461
HEAVY FLOODING
during rainy season, caused by
channelling of river & urban develop-
ment in watershed South Africa

00023455
BLACK RHINOCEROS with armed guard
Diceros bicornis
Twenty-four hour guard against poachers
Zimbabwe

00023428
STEAM GEYSERS & boiling water
Lake Bogoria, Great African Rift Valley,
Kenya

00023409
AFRICAN LIONS & HYENAS
with Vultures, some in flight
Masai Mara Natl Reserve, Kenya

00023385
TRAFFIC POLICEMEN
wearing anti-pollution mask
Bangkok, Thailand

00023374
SWIFT immature
Apus apus

00023349
ROE DEER
Capreolus capreolus
male & young, browsing

00023343
RED DEER head detail
Cervus elaphus
royal stag with twelve points

00023339
EUROPEAN RED FOX
Vulpes vulpes
female & young

00023326
RED-BELLIED PIRANHA
Rooseveltiella nattereri or Serrasalmus nattereri
Amazonian 'varzea' flooded forest on the Yavari River, Peru

00023325
RED-BELLIED PIRANHA
Rooseveltiella nattereri or Serrasalmus nattereri
Amazonian 'varzea' flooded forest on the Yavari River, Peru

00026633
TABBY & WHITE CAT
being carried in cage
Tonbridge, Kent, SE England

00026631
PALMS BENT BY WIND silhouetted
at sunrise, with flock of Frigatebirds
in flight Island off coast of Honduras,
Caribbean Sea

00026602
DEVIL'S DYKE August
View east along South Downs,
Sussex, southern England

00026597
SWALLOW-TAILED BEE-EATER
Merops hirundineus
two perched on branch
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, S Africa

00026584
WHITE STORK young begging food
Ciconia ciconia
from parent

00026559
AFRICAN LIONESS drinking, head detail
Panthera leo
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026554
MISTY FISHING VILLAGE
West Dover, Nova Scotia,
eastern Canada

00026551
SMALL BLUE BUTTERFLY resting
Cupido minimus
with wings closed
Morayshire, Scotland June

00026548
GOLDEN RETRIEVER running in water

00026544
SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY
Papilio machaon
(underside)
Lleida, Ebro Valley, Spain July

00026542
VILLAGE or SPOTTED-BACKED
WEAVER BIRD colony
Ploceus velatus
Buffalo Springs N.R., Kenya.

00026539
IMPALA in long grass, rear view
Aepyceros melampus
Samburu National Park, Kenya, Africa

00026526
VICTORIA'S RIFLEBIRD Australia
Ptiloris victoriae

00026516
ANCIENT DECIDUOUS WOODLAND
Horner Wood Nature Reserve
(National Trust) Exmoor National Park,
Somerset, south western England

00026510
Snow blowing across road

00026495
FLOWER seed head.
Showing wind dispersal

00026471
BAT-EARED FOX foraging for termites
Otocyon megalotis
Etosha National Park, Namibia,
south western Africa

00026459
AFRICAN LION cubs resting
Panthera leo
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026454
FROSTED GRASSES
Somerset Levels, Somerset,
England

00026423
BELL HEATHER with bracken leaf
Erica cinerea
Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England

00026402
WEATHER LOACH in aquarium,
Misgurnus fossilis
resting on Vallisneria asiatica

00026397
WASDALE HEAD
Cumbria, England

00026379
TOURISTS game viewing on elephant back.
Corbett National Park. India

00026376
BANTRY BAY from Mt Gabriel
Co. Cork, Ireland

00026355
PASS OF RYVOAN Snow-covered
landscape Scottish Wildlife Trust
Reserve Cairngorm Mountains,
Grampian Highlands, eastern Scotland

00026349
AFRICAN ELEPHANT bathing
Loxodonta africana
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026347
LOCH TUMMEL
View from Queens View
Perthshire, SE Scotland

00026314
BALD CYPRESS TREES at low water
Taxodium distichum
New River, Apalachicola National Forest,
north western Florida, south eastern USA

00026313
BARE-FACED IBIS foraging March
Phimosus infuscatus
Llanos, Venezuela

00026279
BEWICK'S SWAN in flight
Cygnus columbianus bewickii
Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust, Gloucestershire, West Midlands, UK

00026271
WATER LOUSE underwater
Asellus aquaticus

00026253
CORAL REEF exposed at low tide
Vakaeitu, Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific

00026251
ENGLISH OAK
Quercus robur
UK

00026250
PLAICE
Pleuronectes platessa
swimming in open water

00026245
FISH LOUSE on fish
Coast of Natal, South Africa

00026234
RING-TAILED CARDINALFISH male
Apogon aureus
mouth-brooding (which it does for several
days without food, until eggs hatch) >>

00026227
SCOTCH ARGUS BUTTERFLY
Erebia aethiops
Wester Ross, Scotland July

00026209
GREVY'S ZEBRA foal
Equus grevyi
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa.

00026205
GOLDEN SWORDTAIL male
Xiphophorus helleri
in aquarium

00026196
FELLED PALM TREES
cyclone damage to atoll
Mopelia, French Polynesia

00026170
LYME BAY at sunrise
Coastline at Lyme Regis,
Dorset, England

00026155
RED GROUSE male on heather
Lagopus lagopus scoticus
Yorkshire Dales National Park, England

00026154
THE WASH & beach March
Hunstanton, Norfolk, England

00026137
ROBIN on bird bath
Erithacus rubecula
Midlands, England October

00026122
EASTERN GREY KANGAROO group
Macropus giganteus
in tall grass, one with joey in pouch
Eastern Australia

00026112
NOBLE LIVERLEAF flowers
Hepatica nobilis
Danube meadows, Austria

00026101
FLOWER seed head
Showing wind dispersal

00026083
BRAIN CORAL
Diploria sp.
Sulawesi, Indonesia

00026072
SOMERSET landscape in summer
View south from Hardington Moor NNR
Somerset, England

00026069
COCONUT CRAB SHELL
Birgus latro
& other shells for sale at market stall
Papete, Tahiti

00026029
SUNRISE at Hurricane Ridge
Olympic National Park, Washington,
USA

00026022
CAPERCAILLIE male displaying,
Tetrao urogallus
head detail, Nockberge
National Park, Austria

00026020
CANE RAT head detail
Thryonomys swinderionus
Benin, Africa Breeding project (for food)

00025995
SUNSET & silhouetted Coconut Palms
Cocos nucifera
Savu Savu, Fiji, South Pacific Ocean

00025956
SUNSET
South Africa

00025943
WINDBLOWN GRASSES Autumn
& stump of dead White Pine
Kingston Plains, Alger County,
Michigan, north eastern USA

00025922
AUDOUIN'S GULL on earth bank
Larus audouinii

00025898
EUROPEAN RED FOX young
Vulpes vulpes
sitting in meadow Poland

00025884
BANDED CORAL SHRIMP
Stenopus hispidus
with eggs on abdomen
Great Barrier Reef, Australia

00025848
CHIVES
Allium schoenoprasum

00025840
INSH MARSHES Speyside,
Grampian Highlands,
north eastern Scotland

00025811
OSTRICH at sunset
Struthio camelus

00025805
TADPOLE or SHIELD SHRIMP
Triops australiensis
Central Australia Eggs are dispersed
by wind, hatching occurs during rain

00025794
DUST DEVIL or WILLY-WILLY
Dust storm rising in Outback on hot day
Australia

00025765
AFRICAN ELEPHANT feeding
Loxodonta africana
Marakele NP, South Africa

00025751
MANDARIN DUCK
Aix galericulata
male (wild bird)
Arundel WWT, UK

00025729
CHEETAH cubs playing
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025693
ASIAN LEOPARD coat showing markings
Panthera pardus kotiya
(skin from poached leopard)
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025666
WANDERING ALBATROSS in flight
Diomedea exulans
Weddell Sea, Antarctica

00025637
SPOTTED CUSCUS young
Phalanger maculatus
Tropical Australia & PNG

00025589
HORNET leaving nest
Vespa crabro

00025578
AMERICAN SHORTHAIR CAT
resting, face detail

00025549
RED DEER stag in late autumn snow
Cervus elaphus
Highland Wildlife Park, Kingussie, Scotland (Captive)

00025537
RED GROUSE on rock
Lagopus lagopus
Yorkshire Dales National Park, England

00025528
EUROPEAN GREY WOLF eyes
Canis lupus
UK Captive animal

00025508
CORAL ALOE clump in flower
Aloe vaombe
Western Cape, South Africa

00025478
BIG-BELLIED SEAHORSE
Hippocampus abdominalis
Australia & New Zealand

00025469
DEAD CORAL No regeneration
Acropora sp.
several years after cyanide fishing
Bunaken Marine Reserve, Sulawesi >>

00025423
Museum specimen destroyed by
MUSEUM or CARPET BEETLES
Anthrenus verbasci Pupae (3 mm long)
visible on the left South Africa

00025407
STEEL WIRE SNARES
set by poachers. Kruger National Park, South Africa.

00025402
LARGE-SCALE AGRICULTURE
Aerial view of Maize crops grown under
irrigation from Orange River October
North West Province, South Africa

00025401
TIGER FISH head detail
Hydrocynus vittatus
Okavango River, Botswana

00025399
KOLA nuts in pod
Cola nitida
Contain caffeine, used as stimulant &
medication Conkary, Guinea, west Africa

00025392
POTTER WASP or MASON WASP
Eumenes sp.
putting paralysed Bollworm
into nest as food for larvae

00025391
ASPARAGUS spears cultivated
Asparagus officinalis
commercially Watered from deep wells
in riverbed Swakop River in Namib Desert

00025388
BAT-EARED FOX in long grass
Otocyon megalotis
in late afternoon sunshine Kalahari
Gemsbok National Park, South Africa

00025352
ELAND ANTELOPE being darted
Taurotragus oryx
for translocation from northern Kruger
National Park to the south. South Africa

00025350
ELEPHANT young, trunk protruding
Loxodonta africana
from crate, from Kruger National Park, awaiting transport at Jan Smuts Airport, South Africa.

00025348
BAOBAB SAVANNA in wet season
with Morning Glory in flower
Ipomoea sp.
Kenya

00025345
RHINOCEROS HORNS & IVORY
confiscated by authorities. Southern Africa

00025327
TOBACCO LEAF BALES
ready for processing
Uzbekistan, central Asia

00025325
PEACOCK displaying
Pavo cristatus
Chimfunshi Sanctuary,
northern Zambia

00025312
INSELBERGS & Miombo Forest
Muchinga Escarpment,
northeastern Zambia

00025300
OLD MAN'S BEARD
Usnea sp.
on montane forest tree
Muchinga Escarpment, North Zambia

00025297
GIANT TERMITE FUNGUS
Termitomyces titanicus
90 cm diameter, world's largest
Edible Northern Zambia

00025294
HILLSIDE SUBSISTENCE FARMING
Three women working while two children watch
South West Uganda

00025287
CHRISTMAS LILY in flower
Gloriosa superba
Northern Zambia, Africa

00025269
PRICKLY PEAR CACTUS
Opuntia phaeacantha
Arizona, USA

00025260
REGENERATION AFTER FIRE (1995)
Aspen seedling Minto, Yukon Territory,
Canada August 1996

00025224
LOW-BUSH CRANBERRY or COWBERRY
Vaccinium vitis-idae
bearing ripe fruit

00025206
COMMON SYMPETRUM DRAGONFLY
Sympetrum striolatum
in flight

00025195
ORB-WEAVER SPIDER close up of head
Araneus marmoreus - was raja
England

00025155
FLEXWING MICROLIGHT AIRCRAFT
in flight over Weald of Sussex, southern England.

00025154
SLUG at edge of stream on log
with growth of Liverwort
At the Water's Edge bookplate

00025146
TETRAGNATHID SPIDER
Tetragnatha extensa
on grass inflorescence

00025120
ROUND POND Late Summer
West Sussex, southern England

00025114
TSAMMA MELONS
Citrellus lanatus
Kalahari Gemsbok NP, South Africa

00025105
TAWNY OWL dozing
Strix aluco
head detail

00025104
WREN on dead branch
Troglodytes troglodytes
carring food in beak

00025096
ROBIN'S PIN CUSHION GALL
Diplolepis rosae
on rose

00025092
COMMON FROG froglets
Rana temporaria
on lily pad

00025075
GARDEN BLACK ANT
Lasius niger
winged alates ready to swarm

00025071
EMPEROR DRAGONFLY female
Anax imperator
at rest on thistle

00025070
WHITE-LIPPED BANDED SNAIL
Cepaea hortensis

00025061
LEAVES OF SYCAMORE in autumn
Acer pseudoplatanus

00025046
BUDDLEIA in flower
Buddleja davidii

00025041
JAY in flight
Garrulus glandarius

00025018
HAUSE GILL WATERFALL
Honister Pass, Lake District
Cumbria, England Summer

00024987
BUACHAILLE ETIVE MOR
From Rannoch moor
Glencoe, Highland Region, NW Scotland

00024980
BLUE TIT on spore-bearing moss
Parus caeruleus
Beacon Fell, Lancashire, England

00024973
COMMON BRITTLESTARS raising arms
Ophiothrix fragilis
into current to capture food
Eyemouth, Scotland

00024965
DAHLIA ANEMONES group of three
Tealia felina
with two open and one closed

00024946
RED KITE immature, feeding on teal
Milvus milvus
Spain

00024931
GUDGEON
Gobio gobio

00024920
HAZEL DORMOUSE in nest
Muscardinus avellanarius

00024908
MERZOUGA DUNES in desert,
with building & track Morocco

00024881
DATES & NUTS
displayed for sale in souk
Morocco, northern Africa

00024861
SCARCE EMERALD DAMSELFLY
Lestes dryas
male August
County Mayo, western Eire

00024856
LARGE MARSH GRASSHOPPER male
Stethophyma grossum
New Forest, Hampshire, England

00024845
SOUTHERN GIANT PETREL & chick
Macronetes giganteus
Hannah Point, Livingston Island,
Antarctica

00024842
STRIATED or FORSTER'S CARACARA
Phalcoboenus australis
head detail Falkland Islands,
South Atlantic

00024820
RUNOFF from Eyjafjallajokull Glacier
Southwest Iceland

00024802
JACK PINE CONES two Summer
Pinus banksiana
fallen onto Hair Cap Moss Tahquamenon
Falls State Park, Michigan, northern USA

00024793
WHIPPLE'S CACTUS flower detail
Sclerocactus whipplei

00024790
ASPEN TREES Close group
bare of leaves, view upwards Spring
Dixie Natl Forest Utah, mid-western USA

00024763
BUNCHBERRY in fruit, late summer
Cornus canadensis
Northern Michigan, USA

00024746
BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOG eating plant
Cynomys ludovicianus
Wind Cave NP, South Dakota, USA.

00024745
CARP RIVER Spring
Northern Michigan, USA

00024727
AMERICAN PLUM tree in prairie
Prunus americana
Badlands National Park,
South Dakota, USA Autumn

00024724
LODGEPOLE PINE hoarfrosted forest
Pinus contorta
Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming, north western USA Winter

00024692
GLACIER RUNOFF
from Portage Glacier Alaska, USA

00024691
LAYERED SANDSTONE
Checkerboard Mesa in Zion National Pk,
Utah, mid-west USA

00024686
CARDON CACTUS buds & flowers
Pachycereus pringlei
Baja California, Mexico

00024663
MONARCH BUTTERFLY on twig
Danaus plexippus
wings open California, USA

00024654
NEW ZEALAND FUR SEAL
Arctocephalus forsteri
South Island, New Zealand

00024646
CAPE TRIBULATION/BLOOMFIELD RD
through rainforest, N of Mossman N of
Cairns, Queensland, Australia One of few
areas left where rainforest sweeps >>

00024645
SIMPSON DESERT Aerial view
showing north- south alignment of
red dunes Northern Territory, Australia

00024602
COMMON CRANES in flight, silhouetted
Grus grus
at twilight, returning to winter roosting site
Southwestern France

00024572
AIRBORNE POLLUTION
Norilsk, Siberia

00024525
COCONUT PALMS
Cocos nucifera
Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific Ocean

00024506
SPINNER DOLPHIN leaping
Stenella longirostris
silhouetted Christmas Island,
Kiribati, Indian Ocean

00024478
WHITETIP REEF SHARK at reef
Triaenodon obesus
Beveridge Reef, South Pacific

00024476
CORAL REEF
Tonga,
South Pacific Ocean

00024461
TIEN-SHAN BROWN BEAR in cage
Ursus arctos isabellinus
Karakol Zoo, Kyrgyzstan

00024400
AMAZON RIVER DOLPHIN
Inia geoffrensis
head detail

00024387
WILDLIFE WATCHING from boats
early morning Menanggol River,
Sukau, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

00024384
EASTERN WHITE-BEARDED
WILDEBEEST migration
Connochaetes taurinus albojubatus
Ngorongoro, Tanzania

00024357
WAGLER'S PALM VIPER
Tropidolaemus wagleri
in aggressive posture Kinabatangan
River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

00024356
WAGLER'S PALM VIPER resting
Tropidolaemus wagleri
among buttress roots Kinabatangan
River, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

00024353
RETICULATED PYTHON camouflaged
Python reticulatus
in leaflitter Danum Valley,
Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

00024350
LESSER HEDGEHOG TENREC at night
Echinops telfairi
Andohahela National Park,
southern Madagascar

00024325
RAINFOREST ORCHID
Angraecum sp.
Mantadia National Park,
eastern Madagascar

00024261
PINCUSHION PROTEA group in flower
Leucospermum cordifolium
Helderberg Nature Reserve,
Cape Province, South Africa

00024258
STAR DUNES Namib-Naukluft Park,
Namibia, south western Africa

00024255
NAMIB TSAMMA MELONS
Citrullus ecirrhosus
Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia
Source of water for animals

00024225
MOPANE TREE leaf litter
Colophospermum mopane
Kruger Natl Park, South Africa
Autumn

00024223
GYMNOGENE climbing tree
Polyboroides typus
Kruger National Park, Africa

00024203
FISHING BOAT
Crew hauling in sprat catch
South Devon, South West England

00024186
HONEYBEE on flower,
Apis mellifera
covered in pollen UK
April Magn. x 1.6

00024122
SEVEN-SPOT LADYBIRD
Coccinella septempunctata

00024121
POLLUTED RIVER
Austrian Tyrol Tuxer Bach

00024112
PRIMARY RAINFOREST aerial view
Border of Mato Grosso & Para,
Amazon Basin, Brazil

00024050
SUNFLOWER flower head
Helianthus annuus

00024028
TUNDRA & conifer
Near Wonderlake,
Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

00024025
TUNDRA WITH POOLS
near Nome, Alaska, USA

00024016
MUSK DEER male
Moschus moschiferus
Kufi Musk Deer Sanctuary, India

00024007
HAWKSBILL TURTLE & diver
Eretmochelys imbricata
Northern Bahamas, Caribbean. Atlantic Ocean.

00023972
HEDGE BINDWEED clump in flower
Calystegia sepium

00023958
LONDON PLANE avenue
Platanus hispanica muenc
France March

00023956
WATER VOLES on bank, one in burrow
Arvicola terrestris
Kent, England August

00023911
YELLOW-NECKED MOUSE on branch
Apodemus flavicollis
February Captive animal

00023903
ROBIN fluffed up in winter
Erithacus rubecula
Midlands, England January

00023887
DROMEDARY CAMEL
Camelus dromedarius
Oman November

00023831
WALL BROWN BUTTERFLY
Lasiommata megera
on fern, wings open

00023815
BAT-EARED FOX
Otocyon megalotis
Kalahari Desert, Africa
Nocturnal in summer, diurnal in winter

00023803
AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANTS
Loxodonta africana cyclotis
calves & female Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-
Ndoki, Natl Pk, Central African Republic

00023800
AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANT calf
Loxodonta africana cyclotis
Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park,
Central African Republic

00023794
AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANTS
Loxodonta africana cyclotis
sub-adults play-fighting Dzanga Bai,
Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, >>

00023787
BAKA PYGMY WOMEN
building a traditional hut, using leaves
Cameroon & Central African Republic

00023775
AFRICAN LION catching kudu
Panthera leo
Etosha National Park, Namibia

00023774
AFRICAN LION chasing prey
Panthera leo
Etosha National Park, Namibia

00023759
ETHIOPIAN WOLVES adults & cubs
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

00023756
ETHIOPIAN WOLVES adult & cub
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

00023754
ETHIOPIAN WOLVES adult & cub
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

00023753
ETHIOPIAN WOLF suckling one cub
Canis simensis
and regurgitating food for another. Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia.

00023751
ETHIOPIAN WOLF cubs, 2 months old
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

00023750
ETHIOPIAN WOLF cubs, 2 months old,
Canis simensis
play-fighting. Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

00023745
ETHIOPIAN WOLF cub, 2 months old
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.

00026619
STUFFED YOUNG LION Item
as part of illegal animal trade

00026610
RAINDROPS FALLING INTO STREAM
Large raindrops into flowing water,
producing waterspouts

00026599
LINED SEAHORSES
Hippocampus erectus
Biscayne National Park, Florida, USA

00026595
NORTH AMERICAN BLACK BEAR
Ursus americanus
in Chum Salmon stream

00026580
TELEKI VALLEY & peaks
Mt Kenya National Park, Kenya
Giant Groundsel in the foreground
Dendrosenecio keniodendron

00026572
SNOWSCAPE & FULL MOON
Conifers under heavy snow cover
Lillehammer, Norway

00026550
SACRED LOTUS flower & bud
Nelumbo nucifera
Japan

00026531
LOCH AINORT & THE RED CUILLIN
Skye, Scotland

00026506
CHALE BAY & CLIFFS
viewed from Whale Chine,
Isle of Wight, English Channel

00026505
SWALLOW collecting mud & straw
Hirundo rustica

00026491
MARINE PLATFORMS July
Coast east of Prawle Point, Devon,
south western England

00026484
LOCH BEINN A'MHEADHOIN
with bare trees Glen Affric,
Highland Region, Scotland

00026482
GOLDEN RETRIEVER sitting in water

00026476
ICICLES ON TWIG
Michigan, north eastern USA

00026470
RED GROUSE on heather
Lagopus lagopus scoticus
Yorkshire Dales National Park, England

00026460
THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK
Gasterosteus aculeatus
male building nest
River Chess, Buckinghamshire

00026451
FALLING RAIN
during storm in summer
Hertfordshire, southern England

00026435
EDIBLE DORMOUSE suckling young
Glis glis
Almacelles, Lleida, Spain August

00026371
WIRE-TAILED MANAKIN displaying
Pipra filicaudata
Amazon Rainforest, Peru

00026357
ZEBRA BUTTERFLY
Heliconius charitonius
Florida

00026350
FROST on glass
Detail of intricate patterns made
on crystallisation

00026343
TABLE MOUNTAIN
Cape Town, South Africa
View from Bloubergstrand

00026342
BLACK VALLEY - KILLARNEY
Iveragh Peninsula, Co. Kerry, Eire

00026339
HORSE checking scent, head detail

00026327
EMERALDS (green Beryl) Magn. 1:2
Rough crystals Variety: near gem
Regal Ridge, Yukon Territory, Canada

00026277
LESSER FLAMINGO
Phoenicopterus minor
Species are filter feeders
Africa

00026258
CUMULUS CLOUDS from 10,000 m
Pacific Ocean

00026220
JOHN DORY
Zeus faber
Southern Cornwall, England

00026165
BLUE-RINGED OCTOPUS
Hapalochlaena lunulata
Size 5-10cm Extremely venomous
Komodo Island, Indonesia

00026130
EMERALD MINE - drilling for blasting
underground S.W. vein, Regal Ridge,
Yukon Territory, Canada

00026123
GREAT GREEN BUSH CRICKET
Tettigonia viridissima
resting on Mullein
Stonebarrow, Dorset, England

00026118
SWEET CHESTNUT TREE
Castanea sativa
in flower

00026095
SEA BASS
Dicentrarchus labrax
Coastal waters, estuaries

00026093
COD young
Gadus morhua

00026088
RAM or BUTTERFLY CICHLID
Papiliochromis ramirezi
Native to Central America

00026068
SEEDLING DEVELOPMENT
Lesser Periwinkle Vinca minor
Picture sequence: No.3 of 3
Full sequence IMA370-372

00026048
BEARDED PIG
Sus barbatus
Sarawak, Malaysia

00026013
EURASIAN BROWN BEAR
Ursus arctos arctos
in Finnish taiga
Northern Karelia, Finland

00025972
DANDELION flower opening
Taraxacum officinale
Opening sequence: No. 1/3
Total time taken: ca 1 hour

00025964
MOONLIGHT REFLECTED ON LAKE
Norway

00025961
BOLETUS FUNGI
Boletus aereus
New Forest, Hampshire, UK
Widespread but rare Edible (good)

00025953
RUINED COTTAGES
Hirta, Saint Kilda, Scotland

00025949
EARLY PURPLE ORCHIDS
Orchis mascula
Hardington Moor NNR, Somerset, England

00025944
LOCH TUMMEL
with clouds reflected in the loch
Perthshire, Scotland

00025939
MUTE SWAN flock on water
Cygnus olor
Abbotsbury Swannery, Dorset, England

00025935
RHINOCEROS BEETLE
Pronotum extension
showing 'horn' at front of thorax

00025931
CHEETAH
Acinonyx jubatus
Sub-adult cubs practise killing young
Thompson's gazelle.
Masai Mara N.R., Kenya, Africa

00025929
COMMON FROG tadpole
Rana temporaria

00025919
CAMARGUE WILD HORSE grazing
Equus caballus
among thistles. Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.

00025907
GUENTHER'S DIK-DIK
Madoqua guentheri
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00025895
WANDERING ALBATROSS on nest
Diomedea exulans
Prion Island, South Georgia

00025887
EUROPEAN MARMOT emerging
Marmota marmota
from burrow Winter

00025880
GIANT LOBELIA, at 3500m, detail
Lobelia deckenii keniensis
Teleki Valley, Mt Kenya National Park,
Kenya, eastern Africa

00025868
HAILSTORM over lake Flaming Gorge,
Dutch John, Utah

00025860
CANADA GOOSE
Branta canadensis
young, resting amongst daisies

00025839
CHOUGH flock in flight
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
in flight

00025801
MOUNTAIN ASH
Eucalyptus regnans
World's tallest hardwood tree
South eastern Australia

00025770
BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN tail-walking
Tursiops truncatus
Honduras.

00025769
BLACK & WHITE RUFFED LEMUR
Varecia variegata variegata
on lookout from tree Madagascar

00025761
CHEETAH snarling
Acinonyx jubatus
South Africa

00025745
ROE DEER
Capreolus capreolus
1 week old fawn left in grass by mother
UK

00025721
CHEETAH cub in grass
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025694
ASIAN LEOPARD coat showing markings
Panthera pardus kotiya
(skin from poached leopard)
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025662
TERMINAL MORAINE & SCREE
Ventina Glacier, Mt Disgrazia, Central
Alps, Lombardy, Italy Ventina Valley &
Mt Muretto in the background

00025651
POMEGRANATE fruit on branch
Punica granatum
Shrub or tree 2-6m tall.
Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand.

00025635
BUSH RAT or GIANT NAKED-TAILED RAT
Uromys sapientis
Solomon Islands

00025632
GOLDEN-TIPPED BAT
Kerivoula papuensis
Australia & Papua New Guinea

00025628
FRILLED LIZARD
Chlamydosaurus kingii
Australia & Papua New Guinea

00025616
COMMON BRUSHTAIL POSSUM
Trichosurus vulpecula
juvenile, rare light-coated form
Eastern Australia

00025610
COMMON TUBE-NOSED BAT
Nyctimene albiventer
New Guinea

00025609
BURTON'S SNAKE LIZARD
Lialis burtonis
Australia

00025597
BOW-FINGERED GECKO
Cyrtodactylus sp.
with bush cricket prey

00025566
MECHANICAL MILKING MACHINE
Cartmel Country Show,
South Cumbria, England

00025533
RED DEER STAG sniffing the air
Cervus elaphus
with rainbow behind Highland Wildlife
Park, Kingussie, Scotland

00025532
RED DEER STAG face detail
Cervus elaphus
Highland Wildlife Park, Kingussie, Scotland (Captive animal)

00025522
RING-TAILED LEMUR
Lemur catta
sitting on knoll in captivity UK

00025505
CONSERVATION GRAZING
Exmoor pony at Jack Scout Reserve, Silverdale. Lancashire, England

00025503
HAWAIIAN GOOSE or NENE & gosling
Branta sandvicensis
Martin Mere, Lancashire, UK

00025497
AUSTRALIAN BRUSH TURKEY
Alectura lathami on grass
Eungella National Park, Queensland,
north eastern Australia

00025470
NACREOUS CLOUDS
or "MOTHER OF PEARL" CLOUDS
High altitude cloud at temperature below
-50 Celcius. Above Aberdeen, Scotland

00025454
BOAT ANCHOR ON REEF
Many vessels anchor over reef
Red Sea off southern Egypt

00025437
SAND RIPPLES ON LAGOON BED
caused by wave action. Long Island, Bahamas, N.Atlantic

00025434
CUMULUS CLOUDS
Shower clouds developing
Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean

00025417
CARRION PLANT
Stapelia sp.
Pollinated by flies attracted by
strong smell of carrion

00025412
CHEETAH & young with tourists
Acinonyx jubatus
on safari Masai Mara Game Reserve,
Kenya Tourists on Ker & Downey safari

00025362
CULICINE MOSQUITO
taking human blood
South Africa

00025361
GROUND BEETLE Length 5cm
Anthia sp.
Usually hunts at night
South Africa

00025311
CHESWA FALLS & Golden Rocks
Mutinondo River, northeastern Zambia,
Africa

00025291
WELWITSCHIA
Welwitschia mirabilis
Specimen about 1500 years old
Namib Desert, Namibia, SW Africa

00025256
LICHENS on forest floor
Along Alaska Highway, Alaska, USA

00025231
RED WOLF Re-introduction into wild
Canis rufus
by conservation workers. Alligator River,
North Carolina, south eastern USA.

00025177
CINNABAR MOTH larva
Tyria jacobaeae
showing false feet. Larva exhibits warning colouration and is poisonous

(formerly Callimorpha jacobaeae)

00025175
SOUTHERN HAWKER DRAGONFLY
Aeshna cyanea
in flight

00025174
ROE DEER
Capreolus capreolus
browsing plants in garden

00025145
BEARDED DRAGON head detail
Amphibolurus barbatus
Lizard native to Australia

00025143
COWSLIPS in flower
Primula veris

00025141
BEECH seedling
Fagus sylvatica
with cotyledons

00025121
BLUEBELLS & PRIMROSES in flower
Hyacinthoides non-scripta &
Primula vulgaris

00025103
BADGERS foraging in woodland
Meles meles
Sussex, southern England

00025098
TACTILE or SENSITIVE MIMOSA
Mimosa pudica
collapsed (Example of thigmotropism)

00025094
COMMON WASP queen
Vespula vulgaris
on leaf

00025089
HONEYBEE workers
Apis mellifera
tending larvae on brood comb

00025084
OAK TREE in silhouette
against winter sunset

00025066
CLOUDED YELLOW BUTTERFLY
Colias croceus
on flower, wings closed

00025050
SOUTHERN AESHNA DRAGONFLY
Aeshna cyanea
compound eye detail
Also called Southern Hawker Dragonfly

00025028
BEMPTON CLIFFS, RSPB Reserve
East Yorkshire, England

00025027
DUNNOCK or HEDGE SPARROW
Prunella modularis
on garden spade
Lancashire, England

00025009
SIX-SPOT BURNET MOTH
Zygaena filipendulae
Lancashire, England

00024993
WATER VOLE feeding on Iris leaves
Arvicola terrestris
Lancashire, England

00024960
WOLF-FISH or CATFISH
Anarhichas lupus
deepwater fish of the North Sea,
western North Atlantic & Arctic regions UK

00024948
FRESHWATER PEARL MUSSEL
Margaritifera margaritifera
Spain Endangered species

00024941
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE feeding
Anser albifrons
UK

00024940
WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE on land
Anser albifrons
with Brent Geese behind UK

00024928
WHITE PEACOCK displaying
Pavo cristatus

00024900
ARCHAELOGICAL DIG
Archaeologists excavating
woolly mammoth tusk
West Runton, Norfolk, East Anglia, UK

00024876
GARDEN ORB-WEB or CROSS SPIDER
Araneus diadematus
on web with prey

00024871
PALE TUSSOCK MOTH larva
Calliteara pudibunda
Annagarriff Wood National Nature Reserve,
Armagh, south eastern Ulster

00024867
SMALL POOLS Roundstone Bog
Complex, West Galway, Ireland
Largest intact bog in Ireland

00024865
TREECREEPER on trunk of tree
Certhia familiaris
holding nesting material May Crom
Castle Estate, Fermanagh, SW Ulster

00024864
SPRINGTAIL on rock August
Petrobius maritimus
Lough Murree, Clare, west Eire

00024858
MACGILLYCUDDY'S REEKS
Killarney National Park
County Kerry, Eire February

00024857
GIANT ATLAS SILK MOTH
Attacus atlas
on Silver Birch August

00024827
HEATH SPOTTED ORCHID in flower
Dactylorhiza maculata
Snaefellsnes Peninsula,
West Central Iceland

00024809
DOWNY YELLOW VIOLET in flower
Viola pubescens
Hiawatha Ntional Forest,
Michigan, USA Spring

00024797
COMMON EVENING-PRIMROSE flowers
Oenothera biennis
Chippewa County, Michigan, USA

00024780
UPPER TAHQUAMENON FALLS
Tahqueamenon Falls State Park,
Michigan, USA

00024739
COTTONWOOD TREES with foliage
Populus fremontii
in autumn colours Boulder Creek,
near Boulder, Utah, mid-western USA

00024726
HOT SPRINGS in winter snows
Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming, north western USA

00024708
RIMROCK PAINTBRUSH in flower
Castilleja scabrida
Colorado Natl Monument, USA

00024707
INDIAN PAINTBRUSH inflorescences
Castilleja coccinea
Northern Michigan, USA

00024699
YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER ORCHID
Cypripedium c.pubescens
Northern Michigan, USA
Species is Cypripedium calceolus

00024690
FRAGRANT WHITE WATER-LILY
Nymphaea odorata
in flower Michigan, USA

00024681
WHITE-TAILED PRAIRIE DOG at burrow
Cynomys leucurus
Dinosaur National Park, Colorado, USA.

00024676
MOUNT EREBUS (3540m)
view of steaming summit
Ross Island, Antarctica

00024671
MEMORIAL CROSS for George T. Vince
(of Captain Scott's expedition)
Hut Point, Ross Island, Antarctica

00024614
AFRICAN LION male, charging
Panthera leo
Chobe National Park, Botswana

00024605
ORCHARD UNDER IRRIGATION
Oliphants River, South Africa

00024595
JAPANESE OYSTERS
Crassostrea gigas
on limed tile of a collector. France.

00024592
OPIUM POPPIES
Papaver somniferum
flower & fruits Spain

00024571
CLEAR-CUT RAINFOREST
Bwumba Forest, eastern Zambia,
southern Africa

00024561
BIRCH FOREST Spring
Photographed with fish eye lens

00024554
SOUTH AMERICAN SEALIONS
Otaria flavescens
with pups & cormorants
Beagle Channel, Argentina

00024543
HOUSE EMBEDDED IN LAVA
from eruption of 1974, Heimeay,
Westman Islands, Iceland

00024488
SUGAR CANE crop (unripe)
Saccharum officinarum
Fiji, South Pacific

00024486
KAURI PINE
Agathis australis
Northland, New Zealand

00024473
TORAFUGU PUFFERFISH or FUGU
Fugu rubripes
Eaten in Japan but parts contain
Tetrodoxin, a deadly neurotoxin

00024472
JAPANESE or TAIWANESE SEROW
Capricornis crispus
on snow-covered slope

00024458
MUSK DEER in woodland
Moschus moschiferus
at 3900m Tengboche, Nepal

00024415
ATLANTIC SPOTTED DOLPHINS
Stenella plagiodon
Bahamas Banks, North Atlantic Ocean

00024397
DIVER OVER CORAL REEF with Barrel Sponges. Saba, Dutch Antilles, Caribbean

00024388
WHALE SHARK
Rhincodon typus
Worlds Largest Fish

00024382
ASIAN ELEPHANT calf (domestic)
Elephas maximus
scratching its eye with its trunk
Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

00024366
PITCHER PLANT at 1200-1800m
Nepenthes burbidgeae
Mt Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia

00024355
WAGLER'S PALM VIPER on Heliconia
Tropidolaemus wagleri
Kinabatangan River, Sabah,
Borneo, Malaysia

00024346
FANALOKA/MALAGASY STRIPED CIVET
Fossa fossana
foraging at night Ranomafana
National Park, Madagascar

00024306
MAURITIUS KESTREL
Falco punctatus
researchers putting chicks into hack box.
Moka Mountains, Mauritius

00024296
LANDSLIP in rainforest due to tree felling
Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

00024278
PITCHER PLANT (insectivorous)
Nepenthes madagascariensis
Nr Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

00024264
SURICATE or MEERKAT
Suricata suricatta
eating prey, Agama lizard Kalahari
Gemsbok National Park, South Africa

00024232
MADAGASCAR FRUIT BAT
Pteropus rufus
Endemic species

00024214
PEL'S FISHING OWL face detail
Scotopelia peli
feathers soaked during bathing
Okavango Delta, Botswana

00024207
VERVET MONKEY or GREEN MONKEY
Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus
eating fruit held in hand
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

00024190
POTATO CAPSID BUG on flower
Calocoris norvegicus
UK July Magn. x 1.9

00024182
FLAT-BACKED MILLIPEDE
12 mm
Magn. x 2.4

00024165
SHINY WOODLOUSE ventral view
Oniscus asellus
showing brood pouch & young

00024162
FEVER TREES on savanna
Acacia xanthophloea
Africa

00024160
BLACK ANT queen
Lasius niger
August

00024138
ALEPPO PINE
Pinus halepensis
Sa. de Rouda, Spain

00024123
BLACK ANTS
Lasius niger
tending aphids

00024087
EROSION FROM GOLD PROSPECTING
Aerial view Pantanal, Brazil,
South America

00024066
OIL PRODUCTION PLATFORM
Bohai Bay, China

00024054
WATERFALL through hole in rock
Queensland, Australia

00024047
CHERRY TREES
in full bloom in orchard

00024027
TUNDRA Near Wonderlake,
Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

00024006
SHIPWRECK, 'Sugar Wreck', & fish shoal. Northern Bahamas, Caribbean. Atlantic Ocean.

00024005
SHIPWRECK, 'Sugar Wreck', & fish shoal. Northern Bahamas, Caribbean. Atlantic Ocean.

00023999
GREEN MORAY EEL
Gymnothorax funebris
Palm Beach, Florida, USA. Atlantic Ocean.

00023970
MOLE
Talpa europaea

00023946
CHAROLAIS CATTLE cow & calves
Spain March

00023945
TAWNY OWL on branch
Strix aluco
Devon, England March

00023921
STEPPE EAGLE on ground
Aquila rapax nipalensis
Oman August

00023920
SPOTTED EAGLE on ground
Aquila clanga
Oman August

00023865
SEVERN BRIDGE & ESTUARY
at low tide
Gloucestershire, England May

00023834
CHIVES in the wild
Allium schoenoprasum
Col du Lautaret, French Alps

00023819
SPRINGBOK calf, two weeks old,
Antidorcas marsupialis
head detail
Kalahari Desert, southern Africa

00023809
AFRICAN FOREST ELEPHANT
Loxodonta africana cyclotis
digging with tusks & trunk for mineral-
rich mud Dzanga Bai, Dzanga-Ndoki N.Pk

00023737
ETHIOPIAN WOLF hunting rodent
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia.

00023734
ETHIOPIAN WOLF group
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia. Critically endangered, >>

00023729
ETHIOPIAN WOLF resting, head detail
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia. World's rarest Canidae.

00023728
ETHIOPIAN WOLF resting, head detail
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia. World's rarest Canidae.

00023725
ETHIOPIAN WOLVES
Canis simensis
Bale Mountains Nat'l Park, Ethiopia. World's rarest Canidae.

00023668
GEOMETRIC TORTOISE
Psammobates geometricus
Cape, South Africa Endemic to Fynbos
region Africa's rarest tortoise

00023659
CAPE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA head detail
Equus zebra zebra
De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa
Endemic to mountain regions of the Cape

00023655
QUAGGA PROJECT - Plains Zebra
with faint striping on hind legs used in
Quagga re-breeding project Elandsberg
Private National Reserve, South Africa

00023654
BONTEBOK territorial male
Damaliscus dorcas dorcas
in threat display - bush & soil horning
De Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa

00023618
HERMIT CRAB walking
Anomura sp.
Native to Indian & Pacific Oceans

00023592
TROPICAL RAINFOREST interior
with tree with buttress roots
Western Congo basin
moist forest canopy, Gabon

00023582
HIGHVELD GRASSLANDS
Golden Gate National Park,
South Africa

00026517
MOON AT SUNSET
over Mitre Peak Milford Sound,
Fiordland World Heritage Site,
New Zealand

00026501
SHAG family at nest
Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Farne Islands Nature Reserve,
North Sea Northumberland, England

00026490
SEA ANEMONE
Condylactis gigantia
Caribbean Sea

00026403
CARIBBEAN MANATEE suckling young
Trichechus manatus
Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park,
Florida, south eastern USA Endangered

00026385
SMALL WHITE in flight during take-off
Pieris rapae
Sussex, England

00026375
STRANGFORD LOUGH at sunset
with mute swans feeding
Co. Down, Northern Ireland

00026361
LOCH MORLICH Speyside,
Grampian Region, eastern Scotland

00026360
CHALK CLIFFS Saint Mary's Bay,
Dover Kent, England

00026341
MOUNT ST HELENS VOLCANO
blast zone with dead trees & new
vegetation in 2000 (Eruption in 1980)
Washington, USA

00026320
YELLOW-NECKED MOUSE
Apodemus flavicollis

00026295
CHRISTMAS TREE WORM tentacles
Spirobranchus giganteus
opening Sequence no. 4/4 Derawan Is.
East Kalimantan, Indonesia >>

00026232
BORERAY SHROUDED IN MIST
with rock stacks St Kilda, Scottish
west coast Stac Lee(191m) & Stac
an Armin (165m), two tallest in UK

00026228
PACIFIC GIANT SALAMANDER
Dicamptodon ensatus
eating large banana slug
San Matee County, California, USA

00026218
ESTUARINE or SALTWATER
CROCODILE Crocodylus porosus
in pool, being fed Huntley's Animal
Farm, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

00026212
ROAD & storm clouds
Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork, SW Eire

00026206
GREAT WHITE SHARK
Carcharodon carcharias
Guadalupe Island, Mexico

00026150
CUMULUS & ALTOCUMULUS CLOUDS
Hertfordshire, England April

00026120
HEAVY HOAR FROST
on reeds

00026105
MOON & clouds

00026104
BLUE TIT with autumn leaves & berries
Parus caeruleus
Essex, England October

00026070
LOCH TORRIDON Wester Ross,
Highland Region, north western Scotland

00026030
PELAGIC SOLITARY SALP
Class Thaliacea

00026026
AFRICAN ELEPHANT calf
Loxodonta africana
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026015
CONSTANTINE BAY
North Cornwall, England

00025987
BLACK RHINOCEROS head detail
Diceros bicornis
Mkhaya, Swaziland

00025979
WHOOPER SWAN on water
Cygnus cygnus
UK

00025960
LAKE & MOUNTAINS Torres del Paine
National Park, Chile, South America

00025958
COMMON GREEN LACEWING on bud
Chrysopa carnea
Hampshire, England

00025928
VICTORIA FALLS with rainbow
Zimbabwe, southern Africa

00025921
PINE MARTEN
Martes martes

00025893
LEOPARD cub among tall grass
Panthera pardus
Etosha National Park, Namibia

00025857
CARDINAL TETRA in aquarium
Cheirodon axelrodi

00025826
MOUNT McKINLEY reflected in lake
Denali National Park, south central
Alaska, USA June

00025819
SONG THRUSH perching in tree
Turdus philomelos
Wiltshire, UK

00025818
BLUE TIT perching in crab apple tree
Parus caeruleus
Wiltshire, UK

00025814
WHOOPER SWANS group before feeding
Cygnus cygnus
Martin Mere WWT, Lancs, UK

00025754
MUTE SWAN
Cygnus olor
aggressive cob
Wiltshire, England

00025749
RED GROUSE silhouetted against full moon
Lagopus lagopus
Yorkshire Dales, UK
Digitally created image

00025736
STONE CURLEW walking back to nest
Burhinus oedicnemus
Wiltshire, UK

00025732
AFRICAN ELEPHANT ear and hide detail
Loxodonta africana
Samburu, Kenya

00025728
CHEETAH cubs playing
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025700
SRI LANKAN or CEYLON ELEPHANT calf
Elaphus maximus maximus
being brought safely back into herd by mother
Minneriya NP, Sri Lanka

00025691
ASIAN LEOPARD running
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025677
BLACKBIRD feeding on crab apples
Turdus merula
Wiltshire, UK

00025674
SONG THRUSH perching in tree
Turdus philomelos
Wiltshire, UK

00025670
ICICLES along stream
Mount Avic National Park,
Valle d'Aosta, Italy

00025669
MOONRISE OVER THE DESERT
Naukluft National Park Namib Desert,
Namibia

00025660
ROCKY COAST & BEACH
Stackpole Nature Reserve,
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park,
Dyfed, Wales

00025630
GOLDEN BANDICOOT
Isoodon auratus
Rare species restricted to small areas of Northern Territory & Western Australia.

00025595
COMMON FLYING DRAGON
Draco volans
gliding, lateral view
Image carries 50% surcharge

00025590
JACK RUSSELL TERRIER
puppy on woodpile

00025541
HAWAIIAN GOOSE or NENE gosling
Branta sandvicensis
Captive bird Martin Mere WWT Reserve,
Lancashire, England

00025529
EWE & LAMBS
Silverdale, Lancashire, England

00025521
AUSTRALIAN GRASS TREE
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii
Flinders Ranges, South Australia

00025511
ASIAN ELEPHANT group browsing
Elephas maximus
in the wild. Kaziranga National Park, Assam, north eastern India

00025493
FLORA OF THE DAISY FAMILY
blooming in spring
Namaqualand, Northern Cape,
South Africa

00025492
TSAMMA MELON
Citrullus lanatus
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park,
South Africa

00025488
YELLOW MONGOOSE
Cynictis penicillata
eating Scorpion prey
Kalahari Gemsbok Natl Pk, South Africa

00025485
CANARY PINE group on volcanic soil
Pinus canariensis
to which they are well adapted
Canadas del Teide Natl Pk, Tenerife >>

00025450
SCOTS PINE PLANTATION with cut logs
Pinus sylvestris
Deeside, Aberdeenshire, eastern Scotland

00025431
BROMELIAD with water
Neoregelia carolinae flandria
Garderns, Aberdeen, Scotland

00025424
PAN SCENE (aerial view)
Kalahari Africa

00025421
DUNES AT SOSSUSVLEI
(Among world's tallest dunes)
Namib Desert, Namibia

00025397
RETICULATED GIRAFFE browsing
Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata
Samburu Game Reserve, northern Kenya

00025382
NATURAL DIAMOND on beach
Namib Desert coast, Namibia

00025380
COMMERCIAL COTTON PLANTATION
Kalahari Desert, South Africa

00025353
ELEPHANT IVORY from 1 year's legal culling, valu