Reproduction Gallery

Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair performing courtship displaying at dawn

Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair performing courtship displaying at dawn, backlit and surrounded by mist, Cheshire, UK, April. Highly honoured in the Birds Category of Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice International Awards Photography Competition 2013

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Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animalia, Atmospheric Mood, Aves, Back Lit, Behaviour, Bird, Birds, Cheshire, Colour, Courting, Courtship, Dawn, Day, England, Europe, Face To Face, Freshwater, Great Britain, Great Crested Grebe, Grebe, High1314, Lake, Male Female Pair, Mating Behaviour, Mist, Nature, Negative Space, Nobody, Outdoors, Podiceps, Podiceps Cristatus, Podicipedidae, Podicipediformes, Reproduction, Romance, Romantic, Twilight, Two, Two Animals, Uk, Vertebrate, Water, Weather, Western Europe, Wild, Wildlife, Yellow

Mother of thousands (Kalanchoe daigremontiana), viviparous growth with vegetative

Mother of thousands (Kalanchoe daigremontiana), viviparous growth with vegetative propagation of plantlets on leaf margins. In cultivation

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Alligator Plant, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Bryophyllum Daigremontianum, Clone, Clones, Cloning, Colour, Crassulaceae, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Flowering Plant, Green, Group, Growth, Kalanchoe, Kalanchoe Daigremontiana, Large Group, Magnoliopsida, Mexican Hat Plan, Mexican Hat Plant, Mother Of Thousands, Orpin, Plant, Plantae, Reproduce, Reproducing, Reproduction, Saxifragales, Saxifraganae, Seed Plant, Spermatophyte, Spermatophytina, Stonecrop, Succulent, Succulents, Tracheophyta, Vascular Plant, Widows Thrill

Portrait of a Blackbar soldierfish (Myripristis jacobus

Portrait of a Blackbar soldierfish (Myripristis jacobus) infected with Cymothoid isopod parasites. The large parasite between the eyes is a female, the smaller individuals are males. Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea

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Actinopterygii, Animal, Animal Behaviour, Animal Eye, Animalia, Arthropod, Arthropods, Bastard Soldierfish, Behaviour, Behavioural, Beryciformes, Big Eyed Squirrelfish, Biodiversity Hotspots, Blackbar Soldierfish, Bony Fish, Brother Jim, Buffalohead, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Cayman Islands, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Crustacean, Crustracea, Cymothoidae, Distress, Distressed, Eyes, Fish, Fish Doctor, Grand Cayman, Holocentridae, Invertebrate, Isopoda, Isopodod, Malacostraca, Male Female Pair, Marine, Marine Life, Myripristis, Myripristis Jacobus, Nature, Ocean, Osteichthyes, Parasite, Parasites, Parasitic, Ray Finned Fish, Reef, Reefs, Reproduction, Sadness, Saltwater, Sea Life, Sexual Dimorphism, Soldierfish, The Caribbean, Tongue Biter, Tropical, Two, Underwater, Vertebrate, Water, West Indies, Wildlife