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00026229
EUROPEAN SOUSLIK feeding
Citellus citellus
Austria

00026180
GREAT WHITE SHARK near surface
Carcharodon carcharias
Guadalupe Island, Mexico

00026163
PORTUGESE MAN O'WAR
Physalia sp. Ê
tentacle detail UK
showing nematocysts

00026162
POACHER with skin of boa constrictor
South America

00026161
LOCH GARTEN (RSPB Reserve)
Speyside, Grampian Highlands,
north eastern Scotland

00026160
BASIL close-up of leaf
Ocimum basilicum

00026156
CHEETAH resting
Acinonyx jubatus
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa

00026151
WEST AFRICAN GABOON VIPER
Bitis gabonica rhinocerus
West Africa

00026131
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
Alectoris rufa
hiding away from combine harvester
Lleida Ebro Valley, Spain June

00026129
NORTH AMERICAN BLACK BEAR
Ursus americanus
two young resting on Maple
Pacific Coast of North America

00026124
SUN with 22-degree halo
caused by refraction of sunlight
through ice crystals at high altitude

00026085
BEAR ISLAND, NORWAY (Bjornoya)
Remote Island in Arctic
Zodiac beneath sheer cliffs

00026056
RAIN FALLING ON SHRUBBERY
Essex, south eastern England

00026054
OLD MAN OF HOY
Hoy, Orkney, off northern Scotland

00026001
LOW TIDE on Firth of Forth
Bass Rock in the background
East Lothian, Scotland June 2000

00025975
LARCH FOREST on mountainside
Val Bever, Engadin
Graubunden, Switzerland

00025926
WOOD ANEMONES in flower
Anemone nemorosa
Val d'Aran, Pyrenees, Spain April

00025914
DUST STORM & Camelthorn
Acacia Kalahari, southern Africa

00025869
TWO-LINED CAECILIAN
Rhinatremata bivittatum
Guyana, South America

00025844
BRITISH BLUE CAT scratching by fire

00025822
CONIFER FOREST
in winter Norway

00025762
AFRICAN ELEPHANT
Loxodonta africana
close-up of trunk
Marakele NP, South Africa

00025734
AFRICAN ELEPHANT
Loxodonta africana
calf sheltering with herd
Samburu, Kenya

00025731
CHEETAH cub
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025690
ASIAN LEOPARD running
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025689
ASIAN LEOPARD male and female playing
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025681
BEWICK'S SWANS flying
Cygnus columbianus
Welney WWT, Cambs, UK

00025678
SONG THRUSH
Turdus philomelos
Wiltshire, UK

00025664
SAINT ANDREW'S BAY at dawn
with King Penguins
Aptenodytes patagonica,
on shore South Georgia, South Atlantic

00025647
FLAT PERIWINKLES
Littoria littoralis
on Serrated Wrack (Fucus serratus)

00025645
LUGWORM
Arenicola sp.
in shallow water

00025624
LARGE-FOOTED MYOTIS BAT
Myotis adversus
Eastern Australia

00025623
BROWN-BEARDED SHEATH-TAIL BAT
Taphozous achates
Indonesia

00025605
MOLUCCAN MOUSE-EARED BAT
Myotis stalkeri
Southern Moluccas, Indonesia. Recently rediscovered.

00025598
GIANT WATER-HOLDING FROG
Cyclorana novaehollandiae

00025592
MUSKRAT litter, newly born
Ondatra zibethicus

00025557
KANGAROO CULL WARNING SIGN
Western Australia

00025518
SAL TREE FOREST
Shorea robusta
Kanha National Park, central India

00025509
SPRING FLORAL CARPET
Namaqualand, Northern Cape,
South Africa

00025490
GREATER DOUBLE-COLLARED
SUNBIRD on inflorescence
Nectarinia afra
Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

00025481
LAVENDER
Lavandula stoechas
France

00025476
SEA NETTLE
Chrysaora fuscescens

00025447
MOTOR CAR SCRAP YARD
Montrose, Angus, Scotland

00025441
EDINBURGH CASTLE & CITY
View from Holyrood Park,
Lothian, south eastern Scotland

00025440
COMMON HERMIT CRAB with HYDROID
Pagurus bernhardus & Hydractinia echinata
growing on its shell. Example of mutualism
Loch Long, Argyllshire, Scotland.

00025436
NASSAU GROUPER pregnant
Epinephelus striatus
waiting to lay eggs
Long Island, Bahamas, Atlantic

00025430
PEACOCK WORMS
Sabella pavonina
with fans extruded to feed Loch Duich,
Wester Ross, north western Scotland

00025410
GREAT NORTHERN HIGHWAY
through woodlands during rainy
summer season ("The Wet")
Nr Kununurra, Kimberley region, Australia

00025393
COCO-DE-MER PALM female tree
Lodoicea maldivica
showing the giant double nuts
Praslin Island, Seychelles

00025389
DIAMOND MINING
Conakry, Highlands of Guinea,
West Africa Near Liberian border

00025376
BY-THE-WIND-SAILOR
Velella sp.
washed ashore on beach
Transkei coast, Southern Africa

00025364
AFRICAN WHITE-BACKED VULTURES
Gyps africanus
some in flight, circling, others in shade
of tree Kalahari, southern Africa

00025308
REGENERATION OF FOREST after fire
Northern Zambia, Africa

00025306
LARGE-SPOTTED GENET with prey
Genetta tigrina
Northern Zambia

00025301
MOTH caterpillars in ecdysis (9 cm)
Fam. Lasiocampidae
Can whip tail to impale predators with
irritant hairs Northern Zambia

00025293
WATER HYACINTH infestation
Eichhornia crassipes
Lake Victoria, Uganda

00025276
STORM & BREAKERS
Waves lashing rocky coast.
Hvaler, Norway

00025271
CORMORANTS IN MIST
Phalacrocorax sp.
Norway

00025267
DALL'S SHEEP ram on rock
Ovis dalli
Yukon Territory, Canada

00025258
MOOSE or ELK male
Alces alces
head & antlers
Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

00025255
TUFTED PUFFIN group on cliff
Fratercula cirrhata
Saint Paul Island, Pribilof Islands,
Alaska, USA

00025254
REGENERATION OF LODGEPOLE PINE
Growth in 1995 since original fire in 1989
Glacier National Park, Montana,
north western USA

00025250
WESTERN LARCHES aerial view
Larix occidentalis
with foliage in autumn colours
Glacier National Park, Montana, NW USA

00025237
RED MAPLES by stream
Acer rubrum
with foliage in autumn colours Amnicon
Fall State Park., Wiscosin, northen USA

00025223
OIL ON WATER aerial view
Point Pelee, Ontario, southern Canada

00025217
DWARF WILLOW
Ellesmere Island Canada

00025198
ORB-WEAVER SPIDER on grass
Araneus marmoreus - was raja
showing markings on body
Sussex, England

00025189
RED ADMIRAL in flight shortly after taking off from Aster
Vanessa atalanta
Sussex, England

00025173
RINGLET BUTTERFLY
Aphantopus hyperantus
on grass inflorescence

00025161
ORIENTAL HORNET on bark
Vespa orientalis
Lebanon, Middle East

00025151
SPARKLING VIOLET-EAR HUMMINGBIRD
Colibri coruscans
perched on twig

00025148
PHEASANT male, plumage
Phasianus colchicus
Detail of contour feathers

00025111
CADDIS FLY on leaf

00025076
MOLE having just emerged from soil
Talpa europaea

00025022
METHANE BURNER
at landfill site
Lancashire, England

00024982
RED SQUIRREL on stump
Sciurus vulgaris
Formby Reserve (National Trust),
Lancashire, England

00024869
GIANT'S ORGAN basalt columns
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Giant's Causeway, Antrim, NE Ulster

00024866
BLACK HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY
Strymonidia pruni
Grendon Wood, Buckinghamshire,
England. June.

00024836
SAILING SHIP
Antarctic Peninsula

00024812
SPOTTED CORALROOT ORCHID
Corallorhiza maculata
Chippewa County, Michigan, USA
Summer

00024808
FORGET-ME-NOT
Myosotis sp.
Northern Michigan, USA Summer

00024782
AMERICAN BROWN or GRIZZLY BEAR
Ursus arctos horribilis
with young Spring Katmai National
Park, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska, USA

00024773
PITCHER PLANT with trapped insect prey
Sarracenia purpurea
Tahquamenon Falls State Park,
Michigan, north eastern USA

00024769
BLUEBERRY among lichen
Vaccinium sp.
Tahquamenon Falls State Park
Michigan, USA

00024751
FLOODED SPRUCE FOREST
Near Portage Glacier, Alaska, USA

00024742
COBBLESTONE BEACH
Pictured Rocks National Lake- shore,
Michigan, northern USA

00024734
DWARF YUCCA amidst snow
Yucca harrimaniae
Capitol Reef NP, Utah, USA

00024717
PINK LADY'S SLIPPER flower
Cypripedium acaule
Michigan, USA Spring

00024683
MUSK OXEN
Ovibos moschatus
two with two young, on hilltop
in evening light. Greenland

00024678
WATER LETTUCE
Pistia stratiotes
Corkscrew Swamp, Florida, USA

00024672
HUT POINT in evening light
Ross Island, Antarctica

00024666
GRIZZLY CHASING WOLF
Ursus arctos horribilis & Canis lupus
on tundra, Alaska

00024665
N.AMERICAN GREY or TIMBER WOLF
Canis lupus
at carcass, baring teeth in threat
Montana, USA

00024660
SEWAGE OUTFLOW in ANTARCTICA
McMurdo Station, McMurdo Sound
note moulting Adelie penguin

00024655
FISHHOOK BARREL CACTUS
Ferocactus wislizenii
Sonoran Desert, Arizona, USA

00024631
NILE CROCODILES sunning
Crocodylus niloticus
Luangwa River, Northern Luangwa,
Zambia

00024627
LEOPARD snarling, head detail
Panthera pardus
Okavango, Botswana

00024625
HIPPOPOTAMUS in water, head detail
Hippopotamus amphibius
Sable River, South Africa

00024593
FOREST FIRE
South western France

00024586
FOSSIL DIATOMS
Isle of Mons Jutland, Denmark

00024581
DWARF or ALPINE FIREWEED
Epilobium latifolium
Greenland

00024549
STOAT looking over snowdrift
Mustela erminea
head detail in winter coat
Norway

00024542
FRESH LAVA Iceland

00027630
EUCALYPTUS TREE TRUNKS
in forest, showing diversity of colour
Karri Forest, Gloucester National Park,
Western Australia

00027614
EMPEROR TAMARIN head detail
Saguinus imperator
Amazonia, South America

00027611
HARVESTING SALT from salt pans
Madras, Southern India

00027600
AYE-AYE eating coconut
Daubentonia madagascariensis
with the aid of adapted finger
Madagascar Endangered species

00027595
OTTOMAN VIPER newborn
Vipera xanthina
Two-headed genetic mutation

00027594
COMMON or GREEN IGUANA
Iguana iguana
in town Guadeloupe

00027593
TOKAY GECKO foot on glass
Gekko gecko
Native to south eastern Asia

00027569
LESSER ADJUTANT STORK
Leptotilos javanicus
fishing Malaysia Endangered

00027541
GREY PLOVER in shallow water
Pluvialis squatarola
with small fish prey in beak
Snettisham, Norfolk, East Anglia, UK

00027521
SHELDUCK on water, flapping wings
Tadorna tadorna
Sussex, southern England

00027512
KALIJ PHEASANT
Lophura leucomelana
introduced species
Kuaua'i Island, Hawaii

00027491
ROOKS, JACKDAWS AND GULLS
In garden,scavenging round rubbish bins

00027482
AFRICAN ELEPHANT adult & young
Loxodonta africana
Desert-dwelling race
Kaokoveld, northern Namibia, SW Africa

00027461
BLACK GROUSE
Tetrao tetrix
male displaying at lek
Northumberland, England.

00027448
BLACK GROUSE
Tetrao tetrix
male displaying at lek.
Northumberland, England.

00027422
GOOSANDER male
Mergus merganser
Pensthorpe, Norfolk

00027409
RED SQUIRREL burying nut
Sciurus vulgaris
Formby Red Squirrel Reserve,
Lancashire, England October

00027406
GREY SEAL female
Halichoerus grypus
head detail Skokholm Island,
Wales July

00027386
CHEETAH cubs watching mother hunt
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

00027362
CHEETAH mother with affectionate cub
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

00027309
CHEETAH cubs playing
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

00027255
BLACK RHINOCEROS
Diceros bicornis
feeding, showing prehensile lips
Mkhaya Game Reserve, Swaziland

00027220
BROWN-THROATED THREE-TOED
SLOTH hanging from branch
Bradypus variegatus
Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica

00027178
GREEN BASILISK by water
Basiliscus plumifrons
Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica,
Central America

00027154
BEECH WOODLAND in autumn
Fagus sylvatica
Golden Valley, Ashridge,
Hertfordshire, England

00027144
CRESTED AUKLET group on rock
Aethia cristatella
Talan Island, Sea of Okhotsk,
Siberia, Russia

00027134
RED DELICIOUS APPLES
two, ripe, on branch
British Columbia, south west Canada

00027103
BOBCAT or RED LYNX
Felis rufus
on lookout from crag
North America

00027073
BLORENGE lower slopes
with drystone wall & farmland
near Abergavenny, Brecon Beacons
National Park, Powys, Wales

00027067
RANNOCH MOOR & BLACK MOUNT
IN WINTER & Lochan na h-Achlaise
Highland Region, Scotland

00027039
EGG-MIMIC CICHLID Lake Malawi
Pseudotropheus zebra
Malawi, Africa Also called Marmalade
Cat Fish Orange, mottled & grey types >

00027031
BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS
Diomedea melanophris
in flight over sea Antarctica

00027008
NUDIBRANCH two eating hydrozoans
Cuthona sibogae
Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific Ocean

00026996
IMPERIAL CLEANER SHRIMP
Periclimenes imperator
on sea cucumber
Vanuatu, South Pacific

00026993
DOMESTIC GOOSE flock
Hungary October

00026990
PYRAMIDAL ORCHID flowers
Anacamptis pyramidalis
Hardington Moor NNR, Somerset, UK

00026970
MALLARD DUCK female
Anas platyrhynchos
Saint Gallen, Switzerland

00026936
RED-NECKED NIGHT MONKEY
Aotus nigriceps
head detail South America

00026929
SEA HARE
Aplysia punctata
two migrating inshore

00026909
SNOW-COVERED TRACK
flanked by Ponderosa Pines Oregon,
north western USA
Poderosa Pine is Pinus ponderosa

00026882
MERRIAM KANGAROO RAT
Dipodomys merriami
on sand by rocks Kofa National Wildlife
Refuge, Arizona, south western USA

00026879
GREY SQUIRREL
Sciurus carolinensis
raiding dustbin

00026835
SANDSTONE CLIFFS with Puffins
View north eastwards June
Skokholm Island, off Dyfed,
south western Wales

00026833
YELLOW-NECKED MOUSE
Apodemus flavicollis

00026797
LAMMERGEIER chick being fed
Gypaetus barbatus
using puppet, to avoid being imprinted on humans. Vallcalent Zoological Centre Lleida, Spain

00026794
AFRICAN FISH EAGLE in flight fishing
Haliaeetus vocifer
Lake Tanganyika, Zambia, eastern Africa

00026750
WANDERING ALBATROSS courtship
Diomedea exulans
South Georgia, Antarctica

00026747
RAIN FALLING
Shower of rain in evening light

00026735
JAPANESE KNOTWEED in flower
Polygonum cuspidatum
Berwickshire, Scotland September

00026725
WALDRAPP or NORTHERN BALD IBISES
Geronticus eremita
being tended to at breeding station
Birecik, Turkey

00026707
AGILE WALLABY
Macropus agilis
Kakadu National Park, Australia

00026678
APOLLO BUTTERFLY
Parnassius apollo
Vallferrera, Alt Pirineu Nature Reserve,
Pyrenees, Spain July

00026670
GREAT TIT collecting sheep's wool
Parus major
off barbed wire

00026658
WESTERN DIAMONDBACK
RATTLESNAKE
Crotalus atrox

00026653
ASIAN LEOPARD
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00026621
KILLER WHALE or ORCA
Orcinus orca

00026607
WARTHOG
Phacochoerus aethiopicus
close up of tusk

00026606
HORNET NEST
Vespa crabro

00026600
BREAKERS ON BEACH
with anglers & surfers Porthcothan Bay
Trevose Head & lighthouse in background Cornwall, south western England

00026565
SALISBURY PLAIN
Arable/agricultural land
Keysley Down, Wiltshire, England

00026553
BAT-EARED FOX on savanna
Otocyon megalotis
Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana

00026552
HEAVY SNOWFALL in forest
Oppland County, Norway

00026543
RIVER NILE & Nubian houses
Argu, Sudan

00026519
CENTRAL BEARDED DRAGON
Pogona vitticeps
Australia

00026500
WHITE BRYONY tendril
Bryonia cretica
on barbed wire

00026494
BLACK-TAILED PRAIRIE DOG on alert
Cynomys ludovicianus
raised on hind quarters. South Dakota, USA.

00026444
BREAKER IN STORM
Hvaler, Norway

00026437
CRINOID cirri
Comanthina sp.
Vanuatu, South Pacific

00026428
ICE SHAPE Mountain landscape,
Norway

00026424
MANGROVE
Rhizophora sp.
view above & below water Kakaban
Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

00026409
DOMESTIC GEESE
& goat fighting over food

00026404
GOLDEN RETRIEVER running in water

00026390
WILD DAFFODILS
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Marshwood Vale, Dorset, England

00026370
BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS
Diomedea melanophris
large flock in flight over nesting colony
Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean

00026362
CASPIAN SEAL
Phoca caspica
Djemchusny Island, Caspian Sea

00026302
AUDOUIN'S GULL calling
Larus audouinii
June. Ebro Delta Natural Park, Spain.

00026297
TASMANIAN DEVIL
Sarcophilus harrisii
group feeding on wombat carcass
Mt William National Park, Tasmania

00026285
RAZORSHELL
Ensis siliqua

00026262
TENGMALM'S OWL perched
Aegolius funereus
La Cerdanya, Lleida
Pyrenees, Spain May

00026259
GOLDEN RETRIEVER sitting in water

00026256
BEWICK'S SWAN on water in sunlight
Cygnus columbianus bewickii
Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust, Gloucestershire, England.

00026254
HANDA ISLAND View to north
from Poll Ghlup, Sutherland, north west
Scotland Cliffs used by breeding seabirds

00026248
GOLDEN RETRIEVER in car

00026246
BLOW-FLY in flight
Calliphora sp.
Sussex, UK

00026240
HOLLY berries
Ilex aquifolium
Northumberland, UK September

00026238
GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
Dendrocopos major
on Birch trunk Winter
Hertfordshire, England

00026213
EUROPEAN MARMOT on snow
Marmota marmota

00026210
SUNSET reflected in pothole pool on
slickrock, with silhouetted rock
formations Canyonlands National Park,
Utah, USA

00026201
RED DEER female in woodland
Cervus elaphus
Leicestershire, East Midlands,
England October

00026185
SUNSET AT LAKE KARIBA
with dead trees in silhouette
Matusadona National Park, Zimbabwe,
southern Africa

00026147
SURF PATTERN on shore
Ireland

00026146
MOLE CRAB
Hippa pacifica
Pupukea, Hawaii, USA

00026144
NORWAY SPRUCE cones with frost
Picea abies
Norway

00026141
CROFT & MOUNTAINS
Glencoe, Southern Highlands,
north western Scotland

00026113
BARBASTELLE BAT
Barbastella barbastellus
on lichen-covered log

00026110
SHY ALBATROSS colony
Diomedea cauta
Breeding range Indian Ocean & S Pacific
Coasts of Australia & New Zealand >>

00026108
CAPE WRATH Sutherland,
Highlands Region, northwestern Scotland

00026096
WALDRAPP or NORTHERN BALD IBIS
Geronticus eremita
on grass. Birecik, Turkey

00026084
COMMON FROG spawn
Rana temporaria

00026081
EUROPEAN RED FOX
Vulpes vulpes
young, sitting

00026043
GREVY'S ZEBRA face detail
Equus grevyi
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, East Africa.

00026040
GREY FOX or TREE FOX
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
on lying snow, barking

00026032
BUZZARD on the ground
Buteo buteo
Midlands, England

00025984
KAMCHATKA TRILLIUM flowers
Trillium kamtschaticum
Hokkaido, Japan May

00025983
CROP OF SORGHUM RIPENING
Species is Sorghum vulgare
Andradina, Sao Paulo, Southern Brazil

00025971
RAINBOW

00025968
RACCOON young
Procyon lotor
on dead tree

00025962
CROWNED PLOVER shading chick
Vanellus coronatus
Etosha National Park, Namibia

00025925
HOLLY berries
Ilex aquifolium
Northumberland, UK September

00025924
BANTENG cow & calf
Bos javanicus
Native to south-east Asia

00025912
BARN OWL
Tyto alba
two young on branch

00025910
BLUE TIT with autumn leaves & berries
Parus caeruleus
Essex, England October

00025858
CYCAD - old male cones & new leaves
Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi
South Africa (New leaves 300 mm)

00025856
DEAD LODGEPOLE PINES in snow
Hayden Valley,Yellowstone National
Park, Wyoming, USA Mid-winter

00025846
MISTY VALLEYS & HILLS near Bridport,
southern Dorset, south western England

00025803
VENUS FLY-TRAP closing on fly
Dionaea muscipula
Insectivorous Native to swamps of
North Carolina, USA

00025795
DUSTSTORM carrying red dust
enveloping White Cliffs in outback,
New South Wales, Australia

00025792
SEA CUCUMBER
showing ejected Cuvier's organs

00025768
INDIAN ROLLER on territorial perch
Coracias benghalensis
Bandhavgarh National Park, India

00025739
STONE CURLEW by nest
Burhinus oedicnemus
Wiltshire, UK

00025727
CHEETAH with cub
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025707
SRI LANKAN or CEYLON ELEPHANTS crossing river
Elaphus maximus maximus
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka

00025699
ASIAN LEOPARD on road
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025695
ASIAN LEOPARD coat showing markings
Panthera pardus kotiya
(skin from poached leopard)
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025655
SOUTHERN ROYAL ALBATROSS
Diomedea epomophora
on nest with young

00025652
EWE & LAMB
Meon Valley, Hampshire, UK

00025626
INTERIOR EARLESS LIZARD or GIBBER EARLESS DRAGON
Tympanocryptis intima
Australia

00025614
STICK INSECT instar
Extatosoma tiaratum
Eastern Australia

00025607
NEW GUINEA HORSESHOE BAT
Rhinonicteris euryotis

00025593

00025584
BRITISH SHORTHAIR CAT
dozing

00025583
FLY AGARIC group
Amanita muscaria
Found in birch woodland Summer &
autumn Very common Highly posonous

00025577
SCARCE COPPER BUTTERFLY
Heodes virgaureae
on shrub, wings open

00025561
FOX-PROOF FENCE
(with 1080 poison warning notice)
protecting Project Eden/Western
Shield initiative Shark Bay, Australia

00025556
WESTERN GREY KANGAROOS sparring
Macropus fuliginosus
Western Australia Captive animals

00025544
COAL TIT at feeding station
Parus ater
United Kingdom

00025524
EUROPEAN RED FOX sitting
Vulpes vulpes
Captive animal England

00025473
BLUE LINCKIA STARFISH
Linckia laevigata
Bunaken Marine Reserve,
Sulawesi, Indonesia

00025465
CROWN-OF-THORNS STARFISH
Acanthaster planci
thorns, detail Red Sea

00025461
CORAL & ALGAE ON WRECK
Wreck of cutter 'Duane' scuttled in
1987 to form artificial reef Key Largo,
Florida, south eastern USA >>

00025452
KNOTTED WRACK
Ascophyllum nodosum
held upright in water by air bladders.
Loch Carron, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland

00025448
DEAD RAZORBILL on beach,
caught up in netting and plastic debris
Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

00025416
OKAVANGO DELTA
aerial view Botswana, Africa
May 1993

00025387
SURICATE or MEERKAT suckling young
Suricata suricatta
& sunning in dry Nossob River bed, Kalahari Gemsbok National Pk, South Africa

00025381
CALCIUM SULPHATE or GYPSUM
locally called Desert Rose
Namib Desert, Namibia

00025340
BUSHMAN setting trap for guinea fowl
Namibia

00025338
BUSHMAN WOMAN
preparing Python for cooking,
watched by child

00025329
SOIL EROSION due to deforestation
Near Tashkent, Uzbekistan, western Asia

00025307
NACHIKUFU CAVES
Late Stone Age cave site
Northern Zambia

00025289
LUCKY BEAN pod with seeds
Afzelia quangensis
Northern Zambia

00025273
TUFTED DUCK
Aythya fuligula
very large group on water

00025270
BAND OF STRATUS CLOUD
(harbinger of high winds)
Yukon Territory, north western Canada

00025259
BEAR or ELK GRASS
Xerophyllum tenax
Glacier Natl Pk, Montana, USA

00025233
WILD GINSENG
Panax quinquefolius
North America

00025225
RUSSIAN THISTLE or TUMBLEWEED
Salsola kila
Carrizo Plain, California, USA

00025204
WOOD MOUSE with nut
Apodemus sylvaticus
England

00025191
RED ADMIRAL in flight
Vanessa atalanta
Sussex, England

00025188
NOCTUID MOTH in flight
(multiflash image)
England

00025186
EUROPEAN HORNET
Vespa crabro
Sussex, England

00025135
EMPEROR DRAGONFLY
Anax imperator
moulting to adult

00025128
STARLING
Sturnus vulgaris
perched on Cotoneaster

00025101
HAZEL Spring
Corylus avellana
new foliage, detail

00025078
MAIDENHAIR TREE branch in leaf
Ginkgo biloba
Widely cultivated though rare in
nature. Native to central China

00025067
BROWN RAT
Rattus norvegicus
carrying young in mouth

00025034
CLOUD INVERSION at tree line
Lake Windermere, Lake District
National Park, Cumbria, England

00025013
HONEY FUNGUS on pine stump
Armillaria mellea
Ainsdale Nature Reserve, Lancashire,
UK Widespread, very common

00025010
VELVET SHANK close-up of gills
Collybia velutipes
Lancashire, England

00025003
FOUR-SPOTTED CHASER DRAGONFLY
Libellula quadrimaculata
on soft rush. Lancashire, England

00024995
ROUGH FELL LAMBS
Ovis aries
Lancashire, England

00024975
PLUMOSE ANEMONE
Metridium senile
group with budded offspring
Eyemouth, Berwickshire, SE Scotland

00024971
COD
Gadus morhua

00024969
FOREST KELP or OARWEED
Laminaria hyperborea
showing holdfasts

00024955
EDIBLE SEA-URCHINS
Echinus esculentus

00024950
MARBLED NEWT in water
Triturus marmoratus
Spain

00024924
COMMON FROG spawn
Rana temporaria

00024917
OYSTERCATCHER
Haematopus ostralegus
on shore, prising Mussel prey open

00024912
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON Spain
March 1996 Sequence: No. 1/6

00024904
BLACKCAP pair on Pyracantha
Sylvia atricapilla
eating berries Spain

00024878
FLY AGARIC close-up of cap
Amanita muscaria
Co. Armagh, Ireland October
Very common Highly poisonous

00024874
BRILLIANT EMERALD DRAGONFLY
Somatochlora metallica
male July Loch Bran, Shire
of Inverness, northern Scotland

00024850
PINK LADY'S SLIPPER ORCHID
Cypripedium acaule
Northern Michigan, USA Summer

00024846
MAIDENHAIR FERN fiddleheads
Adiantum pedatum
Northern Michigan, USA Spring

00024841
KING PENGUIN coming ashore in surf
Aptenodytes patagonica
Gold Harbour, South Georgia,
Sub-Antarctic

00024829
ROSEROOT clump in flower
Rhodiola rosea
Iceland Summer

00024822
WATERFALL (unnamed) & river
South-western Iceland

00024783
EATON'S FIRECRACKER
Penstemon eatonii flowers, detail
Grand Staircase/Escalante National
Monument, Utah, mid-western USA

00024781
PACK ICE on Lake Superior
at Whitefish Bay, Chippewa County,
Michigan, northern USA

00024775
CHOPROCK CANYON (sandstone)
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area,
Utah, USA

00024744
LAKE with misty sunrise
Northern Michigan,
northern USA

00024735
BUTTE in bright sunshine
against stormy winter sky,
near Notom, Utah,USA

00024722
SLICKROCK PAINTBRUSH in flower
Castilleja scabrida
Near Escalante, Utah, USA Spring

00024685
LICHEN-COVERED ROCK
on expanse of tundra
Knagerlussuaq, Greenland

00024617
COCONUT PALM plantation
Cocos nucifera
Quelimane, Mozambique

00024604
CUMULO-NIMBUS CLOUDS
Bearing rain

00024582
COWBERRIES ripe
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
& "reindeer moss" Sweden

00024560
FALLEN TREES in Spruce forest
Akershus, Norway Autumn

00024557
TRADITIONAL FARMHOUSE July
Hedmark, Norway

00024509
FALSE KILLER WHALE
Pseudorca crassidens
submerged view
Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific Ocean

00027292
BARN OWL hunting
Tyto alba
Wiltshire, UK

00027280
GERMAN WASP in flight
Paravespula germanica
Introduced from Europe to Australia
Now feral pest

00027254
WHITE RHINOCEROS young
Ceratotherium simum
Mkhaya Game Reserve, Swaziland

00027233
SCARLET MACAW sleeping,
Ara macao
head detail Costa Rica
(Captive bird)

00027223
WHITE-FACED CAPUCHIN MONKEY
Cebus capucinus
leaping Manuel Antonio National Park,
Costa Rica, Central America

00027180
RED HYDRANGEA
Hydrangea macrophylla
Parc Floral, Vendee, France

00027175
BIRCH TREE IN WINTER silhouetted
against low sun Snowdonia National
Park, North Wales

00027142
MAASAI TRIBESMAN drinking tea
Safari camp, Masai Mara N.R., Kenya

00027140
COMMON FROG on fungus
Rana temporaria
Midlands, England September

00027112
LOCH OSSIAN
with Britain's most remote Youth Hostel
Grampians, Highland Region, Scotland

00027106
LOCH PITYOULISH & SIlver Birches
Betula pendula
Loch Pityoulish, Speyside, Grampian
Highland Region, Scotland

00027105
PELAGIC SALP ('jelly plankton')
Doliola sp.
Wakatobi, Indonesia Pelagic
urochrodate found in open water

00027104
RED DEER hinds
Cervus elaphus
UK September

00027077
RED DEER stag roaring in rut
Cervus elaphus
New Forest, Hampshire, England

00027076
LYING SNOW & OAKS AT SUNSET
South Repps, North Norfolk, East Anglia

00027063
INCHNADAMPH FOREST Evening
Sutherland, Highland Region,
north western Scotland

00027028
CARIBBEAN OCTOPUS
Octopus vulgaris
parachuting onto prey Caribbean Sea

00027012
PADDLEFISH
Polyodon spathula
Paddle senses electric fields
South eastern USA

00027005
EURASIAN BROWN BEARS
Ursus arctos arctos
female & cub in taiga
Northern Karelia, Finland

00027001
GOLDEN PLOVER
Pluvialis apricaria
next to camouflaged nest

00026977
ROGIE FALLS Easter Ross,
Highland Region, Scotland

00026963
MUTE SWAN & cygnets on nest
Cygnus olor
Dorset, England May

00026949
POWYS Wales
View from mountain road to Machynlleth,
with steep rolling hills and scree slopes

00026912
MOUNT KENYA Batian at sunset
17057ft/5199m From Teleki Valley,
Mt Kenya National Park, Kenya, Africa

00026895
EMERALD EXPLORATION
Geologist mapping on Mattscar
(mineralised vein) Regal Ridge,
Yukon Territory, Canada

00026876
KAMCHATKA RHODODENDRON flowers
Rhododendron camtschaticum
Talan Island, near Magadan,
Sea of Okhotsk, Siberia, Russia

00026863
EURASIAN BROWN BEAR feeding
Ursus arctos arctos
on domestic cow carcass.
Northern Karelia, Finland.

00026861
LOCH TUMMEL in autumn
Perthshire, Scotland

00026857
RACKA SHEEP (domestic breed)
with typical spiral horns
Hortobagy National Park, Hungary

00026834
TIGER COWRIE
Cypraea tigris
Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific Ocean

00026802
COMMON TOAD August
Bufo bufo
Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Spain

00026798
CANADA GOOSE pair April
Branta canadensis
on water with seven young
Lee Valley, Essex, England

00026791
COMMON LIMPET group on rock,
Patella vulgata
with barnacles. UK.

00026766
COCHINEAL INSECT larvae
Dactylopius coccus
on Cactus Opuntia sp.
Lanzarote, Canary Islands, N Atlantic

00026754
SLIEVE LAMAGAN August
& Annalong Valley Mourne Mountains,
Down, south eastern Ulster

00026727
EUROPEAN RABBIT female & young
Oryctolagus cuniculus
eating dandelion

00026726
TALAN ISLAND, Sea of Okhotsk, Siberia. Seabirds on granite cliff - Guillemots (murres) & kittiwakes, some in flight. Major seabird breeding island.

00026722
RURAL VILLAGE CHURCH
Southleigh, Devon, England

00026686
CLAM SHELLS for sale
Tridacna sp.
Tonga, South Pacific

00026682
APOLLO BUTTERFLY feeding
Parnassius apollo

00026624
Horse chestnut fruit (conker)
gnawed by WOOD MOUSE
Apodemus sylvaticus
Berwickshire, Scotland October

00026616
LONG-NOSED BUTTERFLYFISH
Forcipiger flavissimus
Wakatobi, Indonesia
(Crevice-feeder)

00026613
MANATEE submerged
Trichechus manatus

00026604
OLD DOG with cataract

00026591
CHEDDAR GORGE Limestone cliffs
Somersetshire, south western England

00026586
SHAR PEI DOG being told to stay by owner

00026563
EARLY MORNING DEW
on Fenland plants
Chippenham Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK

00026523
DURDLE DOOR & beach
Dorset, England

00026521
BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS colony
Diomedea melanophris
Steeple Jason Island, Falkland Islands
World's largest albatross nesting colony

00026520
BROWNSEA ISLAND, Dorset, England
Alder carr with boardwalk

00026508
CASPIAN SEAL resting
Phoca caspica
Djemchusny Island, Caspian Sea

00026457
MONEY SPIDER'S WEB
Linyphiidae family
Sussex, England

00026432
LAYSAN ALBATROSS
Diomedea immutabilis
standing on grass Midway Atoll,
north western Hawaii, USA

00026417
SUNRISE
Kalloni 2 pool, Skala Kalloni
Lesbos, Greece

00026398
CUILLIN HILLS with summer snow
Isle of Skye, Highland Region,
north western Scotland

00026354
GIANT LOBELIA leaves, at 3500m
Lobelia deckenii keniensis
Teleki Valley, Mt Kenya National Park,
Kenya, eastern Africa

00026337
SOMERSET LEVELS at dawn
View from Glastonbury Tor,
Somerset, England Spring

00026322
WEST AFRICAN GABOON VIPER
Bitis gabonica rhinocerus
West Africa

00026288
EMPEROR PENGUIN group of young
Aptenodytes forsteri
Riiser-Larsen Colony, Antarctica

00026268
RETICULATED GIRAFFE head detail
Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026237
GREAT GREEN BUSH CRICKET
Tettigonia viridissima
resting on Mullein
Stonebarrow, Dorset, England

00026225
COMMON BLUE BUTTERFLY on fruit
Polyommatus icarus
Barcelona, Spain

00026219
TOURISTS use vehicle to climb on/off elephant to go tiger watching.
Bandhavgarth National Park. India

00026214
WEST AFRICAN GABOON VIPER
Bitis gabonica rhinocerus
West Africa

00026211
CLIFFS OF MOHER Co. Clare, Eire
Important seabird breeding cliffs

00026197
SKYLARK singing on bush April
Alauda arvensis
Cliffe Marshes, Kent, England

00026193
PARAMO & CAYAMBE VOLCANO
(5790m) View from about 3500m
in Coca-Cayambe Reserve, Andes,
Ecuador, South America

00026189
RED KITE on ground October
Milvus milvus
at bait near Cors Caron National
Nature Reserve, Dyfed, SW Wales

00026173
EUROPEAN MARMOT calling
Marmota marmota

00026136
JACKDAW in nest hole
Corvus monedula
with fruit blossoms

00026126
WHITEADDER RIVER soon after sunrise
Scottish Borders

00026116
STONEFISH (venomous)
Synaceia sp.
Papua New Guinea

00026091
HORSETAIL stem detail
Equisetum sp.
Seattle, Washington, USA
Also called 'Scouring Rush'

00026087
BARN OWL
Tyto alba
group of three young

00026077
SONG THRUSH on grass
Turdus philomelos
May Scotland

00026067
HAWFINCH February
Coccothraustes coccothraustes
Cerdanyola, Barcelona, Spain

00026065
SUNSET silhouetted
with group of Coconut Palms
Malaysia

00026036
EURASIAN BROWN BEAR licking
Ursus arctos arctos
trunk of tree. Northern Karelia, Finland

00026017
DOWNLAND & CHESIL BEACH June
Western Dorset, south western England

00026014
RIO CAUCA CAECILIAN
Typhlonectes natans
South America

00025986
MARINE AMPHIPODS on Sea Apple
Cyproidea sp. on
Pseudocolochirus violaceus
Komodo Island, Indonesia

OSTRACODS ??

00025963
MARSH CINQUEFOIL in flower
Potentilla palustris
Stirlingshire, Scotland July

00025959
CAMARGUE WILD HORSES
Equus caballus
Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.

00025937
MOOSE or ELK male
Alces alces

00025936
RAINDROP on palm frond
after tropical summer thunderstorm
(during wet season)
Northern Territory, Australia

00025913
BLUE TIT take-off and landing sequence
Parus caeruleus
Sussex, England
Take-off to landing over a distance of 1.3 metres.

00025885
SPIDERWEB after rain
Austria

00025834
SPONGE BRITTLESTAR
Ophiothrix swensonii
on Scattered Pore Rope Sponge
Aplysinia fulva Bonaire, Caribbean

00025766
AMERICAN BROWN or GRIZZLY BEAR
Ursus arctos horribilis
cub on rock Canada

00025748
RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
Alectoris rufa
males fighting over female
Hampshire, UK

00025746
ROE DEER
Capreolus capreolus
1 week old fawn left in grass by mother
UK

00025723
CHEETAH cub on rock with adult behind
Acinonyx jubatus
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025716
SRI LANKAN or CEYLON ELEPHANT old bull
Elaphus maximus maximus
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka

00025697
ASIAN LEOPARD walking on road
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025688
ASIAN LEOPARD
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025679
WHOOPER SWANS in flight
Cygnus cygnus
Welney WWT, Cambs, UK

00025675
SONG THRUSH perching in tree
Turdus philomelos
Wiltshire, UK

00025658
LIZARD POINT Cornwall
The southernmost point of England

00025653
FROSTBITE Effect of frostbite
Frost- frozen toes (black) before thawing

00025629
FIJIAN MONKEY-FACED BAT
Pteralopex acrodonta
Restricted to Taveuni Island, Fiji
One of the world's rarest bats

00025618
GREEN BARE-BACKED FRUIT BAT
Dobsonia viridis
Moluccas, Indonesia

00025601
COMMON CUSCUS
Phalanger orientalis
holding fruit of nutmeg family
(Horsfieldia sp.)

00025599
BROWN TREE SNAKE
Boiga irregularis

00025560
PORT LINCOLN RINGNECK PARROT
Barnardius zonarius
feeding on spring flowers
Western Australia

00025535
RABBIT young, black (melanistic)
Oryctolagus cuniculus
among Thrift Skomer Island,
Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

00025463
PARADISE FISH
Macropodus opercularis
two females fighting over mate
Aquarium in Scotland

00025420
COMB-FOOTED SPIDER
with egg cocoon attached to
underside of leaf South Africa

00025385
STALK-EYED or DIOPSID FLIES
on trunk of wild Sycamore Fig
Lowveld, South Africa

00025373
METEORITE partially buried
Hoba, northern Namibia,
south western Africa

00025371
COMPARATIVE GRAZING
Overgrazing to right of fence
Okavango protected to left

00025365
CAPE PORCUPINE
Hystrix africaeaustralis
with quills erect
Kalahari, Southern Africa

00025358
OVERGRAZED LAND
with cattle in stockade
Tsabong, Botswana, Africa

00025333
AIR POLLUTION aerial view
above industrial city of Tash-kent,
Uzbekistan, western Asia

00025330
AKHALTEKIN HORSE head detail
Kyrgyzstan Very rare Turkmen breed

00025298
GIANT TERMITE FUNGUS held by boy
Termitomyces titanicus
90 cm diameter, world's largest
Edible Northern Zambia

00025282
FOREST FIRE - helicopter ferrying
water to the fire Norway

00025279
REGENERATION
after Norwegian forest fire
wood horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)

00025221
AFRICAN LIONS
Panthera leo
hunting & killing Plains Zebra

00025196
ORB-WEAVER SPIDER on grass
Araneus marmoreus - was raja
England

00025176
SOUTHERN HAWKER DRAGONFLY
Aeshna cyanea
in flight

00025162
GIANT MONKEY FROG head detail
Phyllomedusa bicolor
Native to South America

00025133
BUDDLEIA in flower
Buddleja davidii

00025097
TACTILE or SENSITIVE MIMOSA
Mimosa pudica
open untouched
(Shows thigmotropism if touched)

00025091
COMMON FROG
Rana temporaria
on clump of moss

00025086
DUNNOCK or HEDGE SPARROW
Prunella modularis
with food in beak

00025081
EMPEROR DRAGONFLY
Anax imperator
larva eating tadpole

00025059
LEAF INSECT camouflaged
Bioculatum cifolium
for defence: Java

00025025
GANNET on rock
Sula bassana
Bass Rock, Firth of Forth, Scotland

00025023
MOORLAND FIRE
Lancashire, England

00025007
GREEN HAIRSTREAK BUTTERFLY
Callophrys rubi
on bilberry

00025006
GATEKEEPER BUTTERFLY female
Pyronia tithonus
Lancashire, England

00024991
BROADLEAF WOODLAND in mist
Lancashire, England Summer

00024926
PUFFIN in flight
Fratercula arctica

00024923
CUBAN TODY perched
Todus multicolor
Cuba

00024922
CUBAN PARROT perched
Amazona leucocephala
Cuba

00024877
EARLY PURPLE ORCHID
Orchis mascula

00024873
LARGE RED DAMSELFLY male
Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Montiaghs Moss NNR Antrim,
north eastern Ulster

00024862
NAKED MAN ORCHID
Orchis italica
inflorescence detail April
Crete, Mediterranean

00024855
GANNET with young in nest
Sula bassana
June Saltee Islands,
Wexford, south eastern Eire

00024847
SWAMP ROSE (wild)
Rosa palustris
Chippewa County, Michigan, USA
Summer

00024816
COASTLINE
West Iceland

00024815
Sign prohibiting prairie dog shooting
because of reintroduction of black-footed
ferrets Buffalo Gap National Grassland,
South Dakota, USA September 1998

00024799
WILD BLUE FLAG IRIS in wet meadow
Iris versicolor
Summer Tahquamenon Falls
State Park, Michigan, northern USA

00024786
DEWDROPS on Violet flower
Saint George Island, Pribilof Islands,
Alaska, USA
Violet is Viola langsdorffii

00024784
GRASSHOPPER camouflaged on rock
Fam. Acrididae
Utah, USA

00024768
UPPER TAHQUAMENON FALLS
view of parapet Tahquamenon Falls
State Park, Michigan, USA.

00024767
RUFFED GROUSE feather
Bonasa umbellus
Chippewa County, Michigan, USA

00024738
QUEEN ANN'S LACE or WILD CARROT
Daucus carota
mass flowering in meadow Summer
Michigan, northern USA

00024731
DOMESTIC CAT fat female
Calico variety

00024715
ORANGE MUSHROOM
Hygrophorus sp.
Michigan, north eastern USA

00024702
ROUNDLEAF MILKWEED in flower
Asclepias cryptoceras
Spring Capitol Reef National Park,
Utah, mid-western USA

00024698
PAINTED HILLS
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA

00024684
PEREGRINE FALCONS female & male
Falco peregrinus
perched on cliff Greenland

00024650
WOOD DUCK pair, male behind
Aix sponsa
Ogden, Utah, USA

00024649
LODGEPOLE PINE male cone,
Pinus contorta
wind dispersal of pollen

00024639
SUPERB LYREBIRD female (left)
Menura novaehollandiae
feeding young Found in wet Eucalypt
forests & rainforests of eastern Australia

00024629
RED LECHWE group running
Kobus leche
through floodplain Okavango, Botswana

00024621
AFRICAN ELEPHANT charging
Loxodonta africana
Chobe National Park, Botswana

00024610
HIPPOPOTAMUS yawning, silhouetted
Hippopotamus amphibius
Okavango Delta, Botswana

00024607
ABU CAMP ELEPHANT BACK SAFARI
crossing floodplain
Okavango, Botswana, Africa

00024580
PASTEL WAVE
Svalbard (Spitzbergen), Norway

00024578
ISLAND IN THE SKY
Buskerud County, Norway

00024570
PRIMEVAL FOREST
Norra Kvills National Park,
Smaland County, Sweden

00024566
SMALL LAKE on foggy morning
Norway

00024546
ROUGH SEA
Drake Passage, Antarctica

00024541
TIMBER
spruce

00024531
TROPICAL RAINFOREST
Col-i-Suva Park, Fiji,
South Pacific Ocean

00024516
LAGOON SHALLOWS underwater
Beveridge Reef, South Pacific Ocean

00024510
FALSE KILLER WHALES
Pseudorca crassidens
group of three, submerged
Vava'u, Tonga, South Pacific Ocean

00024497
MANGROVE ROOTS submerged view
Mangrove is Rhizophora sp.
Tonga, South Pacific

00024495
WOOD CHIP PILE from conifer plantations
for export to Japan
Lautoka, Fiji, South Pacific

00024492
ICE PLANT
Carpobrotus edulis
Waipu, New Zealand
Introduced from South Africa

00024475
SPOTBILL DUCK
Anas poecilorhyncha
two on water
Japan

00024471
ISSY-KOL PLAINS
with Teskey-Ala mountain range
Kyrgyzstan, Asia June

00024454
BROWN-THROATED THREE-TOED
SLOTH
Bradypus variegatus
Amacayacu, southern Colombia

00024452
CRIMSON-CRESTED WOODPECKERS
Campephilus melanoleucos
two males in territorial fight
Tayrona Nat'l Park, northern Colombia

00024442
DWARF MINKE WHALE
Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland Australia. White shoulder patch differentiates it from other minkes.

00024410
CALIFORNIA SEALION
Zalophus californianus californianus
large group of females
California, USA

00024402
SPOTTED DOLPHIN
Stenella frontalis
group of six viewed from below, Bahamas Banks, North Atlantic Ocean.

00024389
GLASS JELLYFISH
Aglantha digitale
Arctic

00024380
ASIAN ELEPHANT calf (domestic)
Elephas maximus
by mother Kaziranga National Park,
Assam, India

00024330
LOWLAND DIPTEROCARP
RAINFOREST
Danum Valley, Sabah,
Borneo, Malaysia

00024312
GRANDIDIER'S BAOBABS at sunrise
Adansonia grandidieri
Near Morondava, western Madagascar

00024304
SCREWPINE PALM mature tree
Pandanus vandermeerschii
Round Island, Mauritius

00024266
STONE PLANT
Cheiridopsis brownii
Richtersveld Natl Pk, Cape, South Africa
Endemic: desert mountains, Orange River

00024239
BUSHMAN POISON BULB in flower
Boophane disticha
Kalahari, southern Africa
Used for arrow poison and medicinal uses

00024233
GATHERING MEDICINAL PLANTS
Children gathering plants in
Perinet rainforest, Madagascar

00024187
SOLITARY BEE on flower
Lasioglossum calceatum
UK August Ground-nesting species
Magn. x 1.5

00024156
EAR OF THE WIND
Monument Valley, Utah, USA

00024154
SEVEN-SPOT LADYBIRD larva
Coccinella septempunctata
eating aphids

00024119
BLACK ANTS communicating
Lasius niger

00024104
RAINFOREST
Braulio Carrillo National Park
Costa Rica

00024067
OIL PRODUCTION DRILLING
Tarakan, Kalimantan, Indonesia

00024062
RHINOCEROS HORNBILL
Buceros rhinoceros
male at nest hole
Johore, Malaysia

00024057
ASIAN FAIRY-BLUEBIRD
Irena puella
male on branch Malaysia
Also called Blue-backed Bluebird

00024053
RAINFOREST with Southern Beech
Nothofagus sp.
Lamington National Park,
Queensland, Australia

00024049
TULIP stigma, close detail
Liliaceae

00024040
BIOLOGIST working in rainforest
Tambopata Reserve, Peru. MR available

00027044
WALDRAPP or NORTHERN BALD IBISES
Geronticus eremita
at breeding station Birecik, Turkey

00027019
WOOD CAULIFLOWER FUNGUS
Sparassis crispa
New Forest, Hampshire, UK
Widespread but uncommon Edible

00027004
THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK
Gasterosteus aculeatus
male showing breeding colours

00026997
SHAG perched on rock June
Phalacrocorax aristotelis
Handa Island, Atlantic coast, Scotland

00026978
EUROPEAN GREY WOLF running
Canis lupus
through snowstorm

00026971
HYDROMEDUSAN Great Barrier Reef
Lovenella sp.
Showing typical "tall" bell, gonads & ba-
lance organ between base of tentacles

00026956
LITTLE EGRET in water
Egretta garzetta
Bowling Green Marsh, Exeter, Devon, UK

00026930
BURMESE PYTHON showing forked tongue
Python molurus bivittatus
South East Asia

00026921
GOLDEN ORIOLE May
Oriolus oriolus
Lleida, Ebro Valley, Spain

00026919
RAINBOW over Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe, southern Africa

00026911
WINTER LANDSCAPE
Garmisch Bayern, Germany

00026892
RAINDROP ON CRANBERRIES
Ripe Highbush Cranberry fruit
Michigan, north eastern USA
Highbush Cranberry Viburnum trilobum

00026883
CAMARGUE WILD HORSES grazing
Equus caballus
Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.

00026881
EMPEROR DRAGONFLY in flight
Anax imperator

00026875
WATER CRICKET
Velia caprai
Oxfordshire, southern England

00026820
EUROPEAN BEE-EATERS mating
Merops apiaster
Lleida, Ebro Valley, Spain

00026816
COMMON FROG tadpole & froglet
Rana temporaria

00026803
BLACKBIRD female on Cotoneaster bush
Turdus merula
in garden. Essex, England January

00026774
DITCHLING BEACON August
View northwards across Weald,
Sussex, southern England

00026748
CHEETAH
Acinonyx jubatus
Sub-adult cubs practise killing young
Thompson's gazelle.
Masai Mara N.R., Kenya, Africa

00026738
TWO-ROWED BARLEY head
Hordeum vulgare

00026709
MUTE SWAN cygnet
Cygnus olor
Dorset, England May

00026693
COMMON or EDIBLE SEA URCHIN
Echinus esculentus
amongst kelp

00026691
BLUE TIT immature on bird bath
Parus caeruleus
Midlands, England October

00026690
CENTRAL BEARDED DRAGON
Pogona vitticeps
Australia

00026687
MIST over moors at dawn
From Glastonbury Tor,
Somerset Levels, England

00026677
TWELVE-WIRED BIRD OF PARADISE
Seleucidis melenoleuca
female. Papua New Guinea

00026647
EURASIAN BROWN BEAR RESEARCH
Ursus arctos arctos
Bear being fitted with radio collar
Abruzzo National Park, central Italy

00026642
MORAY FIRTH & grey heron
Ardea cinerea
at sunset Banffshire, Scotland

00026637
RED DEER stags
Cervus elaphus

00026625
ICELANDIC WHALER
with harpooned Fin Whales
Iceland

00026601
AFRICAN LIONESSES two on rock
Panthera leo
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026582
GREY HERON with fish prey
Ardea cinerea

00026576
DUSTSTORM near to waterhole
with Giraffes drinking
Etosha National Park, Namibia

00026566
SOPHELLEBREEN RIVER
Waters from Sophellebreen
flowing towards fjord Norway

00026507
COPPERHEAD SNAKE coiled
Agkristodon contortix

00026483
RETICULATED GIRAFFE browsing
Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

00026406
OATS
Avena sativa

00026399
MANGROVE TREES
Bruguiera gymnorhiza
Beqa, Fiji, South Pacific

00026388
YEW leaves
Taxus baccata

00026372
TRAIGH LUSKENTYRE
& South Harris Hills, Isle of Harris,
Hebrides, Scotland

00026359
BANFF NATIONAL PARK Canada
Mt Wilson (nr Saskatchewan Crossing)
& autumn aspen tress, September

00026348
BAT-EARED FOX two young
Otocyon megalotis
Kalahari, southern Africa

00026340
BROWN HAWKER DRAGONFLY
Aeshna grandis
head showing compound eyes

00026323
FROSTED BRAMBLE AND
OAK LEAVES
Powerstock Common, Dorset, England

00026321
CAMARGUE WILD HORSE, head detail
Equus caballus
Camargue, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.

00026312
DITCHLING BEACON August
View east along South Downs,
Sussex, southern England

00026310
LANDS END with Porth Curno
& Logan Rock, Cornwall,
south western England

00026304
BLUE TIT on Hawthorn in autumn
Parus caeruleus
Essex, England

00026290
GIANT'S CAUSEWAY (basalt)
World Heritage Site April
Coast of Antrim, Ulster

00026284
CYCAD - up to 15m, fronds 3m long
Lepidozamia peroffskyana
Native to coastal rainforests of New
South Wales & subtropical Queensland

00026203
CASPIAN SEALS
Phoca caspica
Djemchusny Island, Caspian Sea

00026198
ECLIPSE OF THE MOON
Spain March 1996
Sequence: No. 3/6

00026192
NIGHT PRAWN nocturnal
Metapenaeopsis sp.
Sulawesi, Indonesia
Lives in sand, active only at night

00026182
PONDEROSA PINE at sunrise
Pinus ponderosa
Wind Cave National Park
South Dakota, USA

00026158
SOUTHDOWN SHEEP
Newborn lamb, one hour old

00026128
DOUROUCOULI or OWL MONKEY
Aotus trivirgatus
young on branch
(Tropics of South America)

00026114
RAINDROPS on Horsetail
Equisetum sp.
California, USA

00026109
GOLDEN RETRIEVER
close up

00026106
CRESTED AUKLET - territorial call
Aethia cristatella
Talan Island, Sea of Okhotsk,
Siberia, Russia

00026082
OILSEED RAPE field & trees
Brassica napus
Essex, England

00026079
HOLLY twig with berries
Ilex aquifolium
Northumberland, UK September

00026061
APPLE SCAB
UK July
Magnification x 1.9

00026060
TAKAHE (flightless rail)
Notornis mantelli
Tiritiri Matangi Island Reserve,
New Zealand Endemic Endangered

00026035
COPPERHEAD SNAKE
Agkristodon contortix

00026012
ICE CRYSTALS ON WINDOW
Patterns formed by ice crystals

00025969
LEOPARD resting in tree
Panthera pardus
Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

Relaxation

00025966
EGYPTIAN VULTURE
Neophron percnopterus
eating badger carcass Montiberri, Lleida
Pyrenees, Spain April

00025904
COLLARED LEMMING
Dicrostonyx torquatus
Manitoba, Canada

00025886
MIST ROUND HILLS
with silhouetted Scots Pines &
sheep grazing in foregound
Near Bridport, Dorset, England

00025878
SIRENTE MOUNTAIN (2348m)
& woodland in autumn colours
Abruzzo, central Italy

00025876
AFRICAN ELEPHANTS crossing water
Loxodonta africana
Uaso Nyiro River, Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, eastern Africa.

Breeding herd

00025853
TURKISH CRAYFISH female with eggs
Astacus leptodactylus
Native to Turkey; introduced into Europe

00025843
THUNDER BAY RIVER in winter
Alpena County, Michigan, USA

00025836
WOODLICE hibernating
Oniscus sp.
with other invertebrates

00025809
KOALA very young being bottle fed
Phascolarctos cinereus
Australia

00025807
COCKATIEL male
Nymphicus hollandicus
Native to Australian woodlands

00025779
PEREGRINE FALCON
Falco peregrinus
on old stone wall Gloucestershire,
West Midlands of England

00025759
AFRICAN ELEPHANT
Loxodonta africana
bull being aggressive
Marakele NP, South Africa

00025717
AFRICAN LION dominant male
Panthera leo
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

00025709
SRI LANKAN or CEYLON ELEPHANT crossing river
Elaphus maximus maximus
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, Sri Lanka

00025686
ASIAN LEOPARD at sunset
Panthera pardus kotiya
Yala National Park, Sri Lanka

00025634
CROCODILE SKINK
Tribolonotus gracilis
Irian Jaya, New Guinea

00025613
COPPERY RINGTAIL POSSUM
Pseudocheirus cupreus
Mountains of New Guinea

00025611
COMMON TUBE-NOSED BAT
Nyctimene albiventer
roosting, Indonesia

00025582
STINKHORN FUNGUS Common
Phallus impudicus
Edible when young Spore cap & mycelium
in soil Woodland, summer to autumn

00025563
POISON PEA or POISON BUSH
Gastrolabium microcarpum
Dryandra NP, Western Australia. Natural source of Compound 1080, a poison.

00025536
OYSTERCATCHER pair at nest
Haematopus ostralegus
South Walney Reserve, Cumbria, England

00025515
TOURISTS on elephants viewing
Asian Wild Buffalo, Bubalis bubalis.
Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

00025468
DIVING JETTY built over reef
to avoid damage to reef flats
Near El Quseir, Red Sea, southern Egypt

00025456
LAUREL OAK roots
Quercus laurifolia
overgrown with filamentous green algae. Three Sisters, Crystal River, Florida, USA.

00025449
DAMAGE TO MOORLAND
caused by downhill skiing
Glenshee, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

00025446
CUMULUS CLOUDS over granite cliffs
a