2012 Highlights Gallery

King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) flying low over water. Floe edge, Arctic Bay, Nunavut

King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) flying low over water. Floe edge, Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada, April

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Action, Arctic, Arctic Bay, Birds, Canada, Catalogue4, Copyspace, Ducks, Ease, Flight, Floe Edge, Flying, Grace, Nobody, Nunavut, On The Move, Optimism, Reflection, Reflections, Side By Side, Somateria Spectabilis, Two Animals, Vertebrates, Water, Water Surface, Waterfowl, Wildlife

Asiatic lionesses and cubs (Panthera leo persica) drinking from pool, Gir Forest NP, Gujarat, India

Asiatic lionesses and cubs (Panthera leo persica) drinking from pool, Gir Forest NP, Gujarat, India. Water is scarce in the Gir, so Forest staff keep a network of drinking pools topped up for the wildlife

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Animal Family, Babies, Behaviour, Big Cats, Carnivores, Catalogue4, Conservation, Cub, Drinking, Drinking Pool, Endangered, Families, Felidae, Female, Female Animal, Females, Forest, Gir Forest, Groups, Gujarat, In A Row, India, Large Group Of Animals, Lion Cub, Lioness, Lions, Mammals, Nobody, Np, Panthera Leo Persica, Pool, Reserve, Side By Side, Thirst, Thirsty, Togetherness, Vertebrates, Water, Wildlife, Young Animal

Mute swans (Cygnus olor) newly hatched cygnets on pond, Yetholm Loch Scottish Wildlife

Mute swans (Cygnus olor) newly hatched cygnets on pond, Yetholm Loch Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve, Roxburghshire, Scotland, May

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Anatidae, Babies, Birds, Catalogue4, Chicks, Close Up, Community, Cute, Cygnet, Cygnus Olor, Eight, Europe, Fluffy, Friendship, Gossip, Groups, Lake, Medium Group Of Animals, Nobody, Pond, Reserve, Roxburghshire, Safety In Numbers, Scotland, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Swans, Sygnet, Togetherness, Uk, Vertebrates, Water, Waterfowl, Wildlife, Wildlife Reserve, Yetholm Loch, Young Animal