2019 February Highlights Gallery

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking on Champ Island glacier above the sea

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking on Champ Island glacier above the sea, Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic. Highly commended in Animals in their Enviroment Category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards (WPOY) Competition. 2018

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Alone, Animal, Animalia, Arctic, Bear, Blue, Carnivora, Carnivore, Colour, Competition Winner, Distant, Endangered Species, European Russia, Franz Josef Land, Glacier, Ice, Mammal, Mammalia, Northwest Federal District, Photography Award, Polar, Polar Bear, Russia, Russian Europe, Solitary, Solitude, Threatened, Ursidae, Ursus, Ursus Labradorensis, Ursus Marinus, Ursus Maritimus, Ursus Polaris, Vertebrate, Vulnerable, Western Russia, Wildlife

Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus), two males perched in tree at lek in

Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus), two males perched in tree at lek in mid-altitude montane rainforest. Manu Biosphere Reserve, Amazonia, Peru

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Andean Cock Of The Rock, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Aves, Behaviour, Behavioural, Bird, Birds, Cock Of The Rock, Colour, Cotinga, Cotingidae, Courting, Courtship, Display, Displaying, Latin America, Lekking, Male Animal, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Manu National Park, Mating Behaviour, National Park, Orange, Passeriformes, Passerine, Peru, Profile, Protected Area, Red, Reproduction, Reserve, Rupicola, Rupicola Peruviana, Rupicola Peruvianus, Side View, Songbird, South America, Two, Unesco Biosphere Reserve, Vertebrate, Wildlife

Bush cricket or katydid (Tettigoniidae) with spines, camouflaged amongst moss. Forest

Bush cricket or katydid (Tettigoniidae) with spines, camouflaged amongst moss. Forest interior of mid-altitude montane rainforest, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru

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Amazon, Andes, Animal, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Bush Cricket, Bushcricket, Camouflage, Catalogue11, Cloud Forest, Cloudforest, Colour, Defensive Structures, Ensifera, Forest, Green, Hexapod, Hexapoda, Insect, Insecta, Invertebrate, Katydid, Latin America, Longhorned Grasshopper, Manu Biosphere Reserve, Manu National Park, Montane Forest, National Park, Orthoptera, Orthopterida, Peru, Protected Area, Rainforest, Reserve, South America, Spike, Spiked, Spikes, Spikey, Spiky, Spine, Tettigoniidae, Tettigonioidea, Unesco Biosphere Reserve, Wildlife