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Flamingo and Muds
Photographer: Félix Morlán González
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The flamingo's beak is a specialized filtration tool, curved downwards and designed to act as a natural sieve. It works upside down, using internal lamellae and a movable tongue to suck in water and mud, separating algae, small crustaceans, and larvae from the sand.
Flamingos put their heads and beaks in the mud to feed, which can be seen when they lift their heads out of the water.
1/1000 • f/6.3 • ISO 2500 • Nikon Z9 • 500mm • Nikon AF-S 500mm f/4 G ED VR
Corvid on the Grid
Photographer: Ryan Damiano
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This solar field sits aside my favorite location to shoot wildlife. After passing by dozens of times I finally spotted a crow perched amongst the field. Progress with a cost.
1/3200 • f/7.1 • ISO 2500 • Sony A1 • 368mm • Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
Back-lit Grebe
Photographer: Tim Hopwood
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Showing off the fancy spring locks….the Eared Grebes rock a cool ‘do.
I love shooting through foreground foliage, as was the case here, mostly for the largely unpredictable cool patterns that can emerge in the background and in the bokeh.
1/4000 • f/4.5 • ISO 320 • -2.3EV • Canon R5ii • 500mm • Canon f4L ISii 600mm
Among the Palms
Photographer: Mark Noll
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I was fortunate to be able to visit Oxnard, California in February 2026 for several weeks to escape the cold Chicago winter and play some beach volleyball. I took my camera out several evenings to a beachside park lined with palm trees, where I consistently found a lone great blue heron intently focused on the grass. A passerby told me that it had used this area for years as a hunting ground for gophers. I captured this silhouette one evening several minutes after sunset on my way back from the beach.
1/6400 • f/1.4 • ISO 64 • Nikon Z8 • 85mm • Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN Art
Cleared for Landing
Photographer: Matt Parish
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A drake Bufflehead glides in with such grace.
Most of the shoreline was frozen solid. This tiny opening was their only chance and they hit it every time. The same location can change so frequently, its hard to know what you may come home with. This was one of those mornings. Beats sitting on the couch...
1/2000 • f/2.8 • ISO 1000 • Canon EOS R8 • 300mm • Canon EF 300 f2.8 IS USM
Snow in Sun
Photographer: Ed Dailey
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Snowy Egret fishing at sunrise.
1/800 • f/4 • ISO 320 • EV 0.3 • Sony A1 II • 600mm • Sony FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS
Great Grey Owl Taking Off
Photographer: Maxime Pelletier
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My first encounter with a great grey owl was amazing. Heavy snow made it magical.
1/1000 • f/6.7 • ISO 1000 • Fujifilm X-T5 • 500mm • Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7
Fog bow
Photographer: Grzegorz Długosz
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When I spotted the fow bog while on the amazing bird island on Hornoya I instantly grabbed my wide angle kit and crawled up to a Shag. I managed to compose it with the fogbow and a cliff but i really wanted to get something in the top right corner so I waited for one of the Kittiwakes to fly close enough and then after it did I finally got the shot.
1/2500 • f/14 • ISO 250 • Canon R5 • 17mm • Canon RF IS USM L 14-35mm f/4
Tule Elk Vista
Photographer: Jacques Fortier
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I scan these hills every time I drive by, hoping for some wildlife to anchor a composition showing off the gently rolling terrain in Point Reyes. On this evening, a pair of Tule Elk were working their way up to the first ridge just as the sun finished setting. I hoped they would continue up to the second, higher ridge, but they headed down into the valley leading to the bay. These quiet contemplative compositions are what keep me coming back to this place, year after year.
1/320 • f/5.6 • ISO 800 • Sony A1II • 125mm • Sony FE 100-400mm
Coyotes in a Frost Wonderland
Photographer: Lyndon Norman
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The frost had been hanging on for days and every outing had this incredible winter habitat aspect to try to find wildlife in which included these two coyotes posing from very far away but made for a perfect contrast in the white scenery.
1/400 • f/11 • ISO 400 • Canon R5 • 400mm • Canon 100-400mm
Elephant Sunrise
Photographer: Paul Mckenzie
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A serene moment early one morning this January when a family of elephants crossed a lake in front of Mount Kilimanjaro with the sun beginning to rise to the east.
1/400 • f/11 • ISO 2000 • Canon R5 Mk2 • 145mm • Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1
Semipalmated Plover on Turbine Island
Photographer: Rain Saulnier
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I ended up lying in Lake Ontario fully clothed to compose this shot with my nifty-fifty during fall shorebird migration.
1/2000 • f/1.8 • ISO 100 • Canon R10 • 50mm • Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM
Call of the Autumn
Photographer: Rich Campion
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Perhaps my favourite spectacle in the British wildlife calendar, the red deer rut. As this red deer stag bellows at dawn, the rising sun quickly burns off the mist. Getting in to your desired position is key. Shooting backlit against a darker backdrop helps exaggerate not only the mist but also the plume of breath released after the bellow.
1/1600 • f/4 • ISO 320 • Canon R5 • 500mm • Canon 500mm f/4 IS USM
Dawn Limpkin on Lake Walk in Water
Photographer: Michael Dreese
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When I saw a beautiful sky developing in the pre-dawn hour, I grabbed my 28-400 lens with the hopes of capturing a small in frame image that would show off the beautiful environment of our local lake. Not long after my arrival, this Limpkin flew into the scene and began feeding in the shallow water. The bird walked into the perfect location for the composition I had in mind. I was so thankful for this experience and celebrated the rare instance when everything worked out according to my vision.
1/500 • f/5.6 • ISO 1100 • Nikon Z8 • 55mm • Nikon Z 28-400mm f/4-8
On the Outskirts of Town
Photographer: Heiko Herrmann
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Rats (Rattus norvegicus) are intelligent and social animals. In city centres, food waste accumulates in trash cans and behind grocery stores. This attracts the rats. These adaptable rodents benefit from their proximity to humans and help themselves to whatever they leave behind. Accompanying the rats on their nighttime forays in precisely this environment was challenging. But the big challenge was not getting the rats in front of the camera. They are often very curious if you remain calm and know what rate do not like. For example sudden movements or strong smells they do not like. The big challenge was to photographically portray a species that many people consider not particularly photogenic and to lead the viewer of the image into the urban world of rats in an aesthetic way, making them curious about the rats, too.
The image was created in collaboration with Lilian Weintke ---> www.instagram.com/lilian.fotografie/
1/1250 • f/1.3 • ISO 6400 • -0.7 EV • Fujifilm X-H2S • 75mm • Sirui 75mm f/1.2 Sniper Series
Small And Mighty
The Maasai Mara ecosystem is periodically renewed through controlled burns, and during my recent visit to Kenya, the resulting smoke became an obsession. These enormous, billowing plumes added an overwhelming sense of scale, providing the perfect dramatic background for the wildlife. My guide and I sought an animal to silhouette against the towering smoke. While we initially looked for a giraffe or an elephant, the moment I saw these zebras along the horizon, I knew the search was over. The relatively small stature of the zebras, juxtaposed with the gigantic smoke plumes delivered the "epic" feeling I was after.
Because this image is about the shape of the zebras, and the size and texture of the smoke, I chose a black and white conversion, which allowed me to simplify the image, drawing attention to the scale of the smoke.
1/500 • f/10 • ISO 80 • Sony A1ii • 300mm • Sony 300mm GM f/2.8
Everything the Light Touches
Photographer: Sergius Hannan
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The summer of 2024 I was camping with a few photographers in Chinitna Bay within Lake Clark National Park, which hosts one of the densest brown bear populations in the world. When we watched the light rays emerge over the mountains, we knew we had to position ourselves near the field where a bear might wish to graze on the protein-rich sedge. Just as the light spilled through, a bear finally emerged from the burm and walked out into the field.
1/8000 • f/2.8 • ISO 500 • -2.3EV • Nikon Z6ii • 70mm • Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 G2
Water Color
Photographer: Michelle Mackenzie
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It was an overcast day along the Vancouver Island coast. We were looked for surfers - not wildlife - but I took my camera anyway. A group of gulls were also surfing that afternoon. One perched on a rock in the middle of the rollicking brown waves. Slowing my shutter speed, I focused on the gull and zoomed out to capture the beautiful BC landscape behind them. I then snapped this image.
1/6 • f/18 • ISO 32 • NIkon Z8 • 220mm • Nikon Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6
Ferns and Feathers
Photographer: Kyle Doerksen
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There were a bunch of cattle egrets gathering in small field next to where I took this. I liked how the plants looked so I set up underneath and waited for something to fly over. I went with a tighter aperture to bring out some of the detail in the plants. Pretty happy with how it turned out!
1/640 • f/9 • ISO 5000 • Sony A7IV • 28mm • Tamron 28-200mm f/2.8-5.6
