2018 January Highlights Gallery

Patterns made in sand by Mint-sauce worms (Symsagittifera roscoffensis / Convoluta

Patterns made in sand by Mint-sauce worms (Symsagittifera roscoffensis / Convoluta roscoffensis) sunbathing at low tide to allow the symbiotic algae to photosynthesise. Costa de Caparica beach, Portugal. April 2017

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Acoela, Acoelamorph, Acoelamorpha, Aerial View, Algae, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Atlantic Ocean, Behaviour, Behavioural, Bizarre, Catalogue10, Coast, Coastal, Colour, Cryptic, Elevated View, Europe, Flat Worm, Flatworm, Green, High Angle View, Interesting, Intertidal, Invertebrate, Invertebrates, Littoral, Marine, Mint Sauce Worm, Ocean, Pattern, Photosynthesis, Plathelminthes, Platyhelminth, Platyhelminthes, Portugal, Sagittiferidae, Saltwater, Southern Europe, Symbiotic Relationship, Symsagittifera, Symsagittifera Roscoffensis, Water, Weird, Wildlife

American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) pair in courtship, group of three feeding

American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) pair in courtship, group of three feeding, Punta Cormorant, Floreana Island, Galapagos

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American Flamingo, Animal, Animalia, Aves, Biodiversity Hotspot, Bird, Birds, Caribbean Flamingo, Catalogue10, Cuban Flamingo, Feeding, Few, Flamingo, Galapagos, Galapagos Islands, Galapagos National Park, Group, Latin America, Mud, Mud Flat, Mud Flats, Muddy, Mudflat, Mudflats, Phoenicopteridae, Phoenicopteriformes, Phoenicopterus, Phoenicopterus Ruber, Phoenicopterus Ruber Ruber, South America, Three, Unesco World Heritage Site, Vertebrate, West Indian Flamingo, Wildlife

English (Quercus robur) in field with Purple moor-grass (Molinea caerulea) with moon

English (Quercus robur) in field with Purple moor-grass (Molinea caerulea) with moon, Groot Schietveld, Wuustwezel, Belgium, March

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Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Belgium, Calm, Catalogue10, Dicot, Dicotyledon, English Oak Tree, Europe, Fagaceae, Fagales, Flowering Plant, French Oak, Magnoliopsida, Marsh, Marshland, Mood, Moon, Oak, Oak Tree, Pedunculate Oak, Plant, Plantae, Quercus, Quercus Longaeva, Quercus Pedunculata, Quercus Robur, Rosanae, Rosid, Seed Plant, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Tracheophyta, Tree, Trees, Vascular Plant, Western Europe, Wetland