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Rüppell’s vultures (Gyps rueppelli) feeding on an ox carcass on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewA juvenile Rüppell’s vulture (Gyps rueppelli) and a thick-billed raven (Corvus crassirostris) interact on the periphery of a scavenger feeding frenzy at the remains of an ox carcass on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains National Park, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewA pair of lappet-faced vultures (Torgos tracheliotos) sit apart from a feeding frenzy at a nearby ox carcass on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains National Park, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewAn adult Rüppell’s vulture (Gyps rueppelli) feeds on the head of a dead ox, surrounded by conspecifics, with a dismembered jaw in the foreground, Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains National Park, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewWhite-breasted cormorants (Phalacrocorax lucidus) wing-drying at the edge of Lake Hawassa, Arba Minch, Ethiopia. One bird has a fishing hook visibly stuck in its bill.
Quick ViewNile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) on a beach known as the ‘crocodile market’ at Lake Chamo, Arba Minch, Ethiopia.
Quick ViewAn adult grey heron (Ardea cinerea) perched on the railings of a fishing trawler moored in Stornoway harbour, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, with Lews Castle in the background.
Quick ViewAn adult male grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) approaches a moored trawler in Stornoway harbour, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Quick ViewBlack and white image of the Shiant Isles and the Minch from the crofting township of Orinsay, South Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Quick ViewThe Shiant Isles and the Minch from the crofting township of Orinsay, South Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Quick ViewRainbow at golden hour over the deserted crofting township of Stemreway (Stiomrabhaigh) and Loch Sealg, South Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Quick ViewA gravel/adventure bicycle laden with bikepacking luggage lays on a gravel track in the Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan, Bulgaria.
Quick ViewA woman, shown very small in the frame and dwarfed by huge trees, treks through a beautiful misty broadleaved forest in autumn, Monte Motette, Coldipeccio, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewA female common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) perched at the top of a bare tree, looking toward the camera.
Quick ViewYoung female fallow deer (Dama dama) stands alert in a clearing in an olive plantation, Lisciano Niccone, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewMale wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) perched on a rock on a Hebridean beach in early spring, Sandwick, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland.
Quick ViewMale wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) perched on top of a large rock on a stony Hebridean beach, Sandwick, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland.
Quick ViewClose up, high-key image of an adult male barn (common) swallow (Hirundo rustica) perched on an electricity wire and covered in water droplets after a heavy rain shower, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewPortrait of an adult male barn (common) swallow (Hirundo rustica) perched on electricity cables, Umbria, Italy.
Quick ViewPygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmaeus) in breeding plumage wing-drying perched in a tree at Lake Skadar, Virpazar, Montenegro.
Quick ViewA whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) plucks a fish from the water at sunrise on the margins of Lake Skadar, Virpazar, Montenegro.
Quick ViewA partially-silhouetted grey heron (Ardea cinerea) passes in front of the layered Albanian alps above Lake Skadar at sunrise golden hour, viewed from Virpazar, Montenegro.
Quick ViewA bordered orb-weaver spider (Neoscona adianta) and partially completed web on a dead thistle head, Virpazar, Montenegro.
Quick ViewA bordered orb-weaver (Neoscona adianta) spider sits in the centre of its web, spun from a plant with seeds silhouetted in pods, on the margins of Lake Skadar, Montenegro.
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