Wildlife nominees
Title: Balancing Least Bittern When we returned to one of our favorite birding spots around Shoveler Pond in Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, I was impressed with this balancing least bittern on a reed. I captured the moment.
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Title: Blue Bird Dream On a foggy early morning we photographed at Cades Cove of Great Smoky Mts NP, TN, USA. A blue bird flew to the one of the fence poles and it looked like a morning dream. I captured the moment
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Title: Platinum Crowntail Fighting Fish the image from photo series "Great beauty from small creature"
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Title: Red Halfmoon Fighting Fish the image from photo series "Great beauty from small creature"
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Title: Colorado
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Title: Bullish Tiber river delta - Italy
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Title: Love Dance
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Title: Tenderness In The Bush
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Title: Brown and Whte This piebald deer had been seen in the area, so one week I dedicated myself to catching a glimpse of this rare creature--patience paid off and the third day in a light snow, he suddenly appeared.
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Title: Hitchin' a Ride I spied this loon and its baby late one afternoon on a lake in Maine.
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Title: Killed Cheetah dragging kill
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Title: Stare Down Leopard eye contact
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Title: Tusk Touch Elephant Mother nudging her Baby
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Title: Halloooo nairobi national park……. animals say hallooooooooo
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Title: Leopard & Baboon Leopard meal in Zambia
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Title: Leopard Cub Everyone must eat Zambia
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Title: Love In love at Savuti Botswana
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Title: Night Cat Friends at dinner can hurt
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Title: Take Care of the Little Ones Mother leopard taking the littlest twin to safety (Lion Camp, Zambia)
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Title: Coexistence
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Title: Ballet
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Title: Suspicious
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Title: Attack Sandhill cranes eat Redwing Blackbird eggs--this Redwing Blackbird too exception to that.
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Title: Horses Eye Reflection captured in a Horses Eye in Catania
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Title: Hummingbird Blossoms Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) feeding on cherry blossoms in the Spring with blue sky background
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Title: Beau An orang utan posing like the next top model.
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Title: Primal Yawn A lioness on black background. She's doing what to me looks like the mother of all yawns... hence the title.
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Title: Red Bishop
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Title: Snow Flurry The American Paint Horse enjoys the free running in the deep snow.
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Title: The Canola Field A very fortunate capture of 6 young stags bounding through a beautiful canola field in full bloom outside Drumheller, Alberta.
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Title: Koi Pond These koi were transformed before my eyes. As they swam closer to the surface, they almost became neon in color. They were nature's exclamation point!
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Title: Shadow Cat The Margay is rarely seen as it hunts in the trees cloaked by the night.
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Title: Glance
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Title: Tango for Sweetheart
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Title: Wings a Beating
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Title: Freedom
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Title: Yawning Tiger A free-roaming tiger in a South African conservation project
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Title: Flight A heron takes flight, etched by the sun and reflected in the water
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Title: Mother and Swan Not so wild, but life it is!
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Title: Crane Style The famous bird in Hokkaido Japan , Taken in Hokkaido 2015
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Title: Desert Monitor the Desert monitor , taken in Kuwait
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Title: Aplomado Falcon Reintroduction efforts are under way for the Aplomado. It began to reoccupy its former range in West Texas and southern New Mexico in the 1990s. Documentary evidence for these naturally occurring bird
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Title: Eagle Landing The waters of the Chilkat River Valley are a tranquil and vibrant blue in mid-November as this bald eagle makes a slow descent and lands. Barely visible – snowflakes begin to fill the air.
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Title: Going Home Three penguins are on their way back to the nesting area after feeding in the ocean. Penguins nest and live about ˝ mile to a few miles from the ocean. This process is repeated twice daily travelin
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Title: Great White This great white has breached and rolled in its hunt for a seal of the coast of South Africa. The Great White Shark is an animal that inspires awe and fear: it is one of the world’s foremost predator
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Title: Leopard in a Tree The leopard is a shrewd and mysterious carnivore that is a legendary stealth predator. I found this leopard slumbering peacefully in a tree; content and full without a care in the world. After watchi
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Title: Moon and Cranes Sandhill cranes are fairly social birds that are usually encountered in pairs or family groups through the year. During migration and winter, non-related cranes come together to form "survival groups
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Title: Run to Safety As several species of animals relax at a watering hole, a lion emerges and disrupts the peace and tranquility of the moment, as the roar of their hooves make haste to escape the impending wrath of the
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Title: Red Rat Snake Babys The red rat snake is the best climbing species of snake in Florida, USA.
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Title: White's Tree Frog on Stem Large adhesive discs at the end of its digits provide grip while climbing.
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Title: Monkey Food is Monkey Business
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Title: Love Chicks The younger chicks caught while in conversation, love or may be afraid of Phgr.
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Title: 1-Duality
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Title: A Good Hunter
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Title: Bird of Paradise
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Title: Eye of the Dragon
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Title: The Moment
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Title: King of Solitude This majestic polar bear in the Barents Sea in Svalbard stands with confidence and fierce strength on the ice that is slowly disapearing before his eyes.
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Title: King Penguins On a very cold sunrise in Golden Harbour, South Georgia. King Penguins come out of the freezing water with very happy energy. So refreshing to see nature at it's best.
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Title: Svalbard Polar Bears Svalbard breathless landscape with a polar bear mother and her 2 year old cub sharing a seal. A rare sighting.
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Title: Smiling Crocodil-Farm in Singapore
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Title: Untitled Crocodil-Farm in Singapore
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Title: Murmuration Two The grace of these creatures is a wonder to witness. They are a part of the rythms that exist every night at the lake I frequent. (2) photo composite
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Title: It's a Dangerous Beautiful World Coming out to daylight is not easy but the larder is bare
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Title: Angry Eagle An eagle protects the nest near Fish Lake, Wisconsin, USA.
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Title: Busy Bee A bee covered in pollen
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Title: Spring Snow A Cardinal weathers a late Spring snowfall in Middleton, Wisconsin, USA.
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Title: Eye To Eye Red Fox Looking Up To A Female Hen Harrier Which Looking Down Right Back At Him
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Title: Glowing Nature Field Fare On A Small Rock Looking At A Flying Insect Just Minutes Before The Sunset .. This Is A Very Rare Bird Here In The State Of Kuwait .. Two Birdwatchers Who Happened To Be Friends Of Mine Foun
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Title: Hi! Im All Ears! I found this Arabian Red fox cub outside a den just a side of a small hill, there were 3 cubs with their mom .. i got closer and put camouflage netting over me and waited their for two hours straight,
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Title: Me & Mini Me Two Painted Stork Who Fought Each Other For More Than 3 Hours Over Territory , Then Finaly They Decided To Share The Place
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Title: Successful Catch I found this field filled with water with this Cattle Egret walking around searching for food .. then suddenly over 50 of Citrine Wagtail landed on the same field .. This egret knocked one of the wagt
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Title: Wolf Eagle A White Tailed Eagle acting like a wolf after finding food .. when the eagle dose that he either calling for other eagles or just making it clear to other eagles that this is his meal
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Title: The Dash Wildebeest splashing across crocodile infested water in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
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Title: Tough Mother A wounded but successful mother looking after 2 cubs. Taken in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
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Title: Big Eyes An Anhinga with eyes that appear bigger than it's stomach
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Title: Camouflage Now you see me now you not...
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Title: Hiding Lizard captured through a leaf
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Title: Swim Maya Swim! Maya Moon swimming in the Bahamas
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Title: Gobi Desert (1) Mongolia
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Title: Gobi Desert (2) Mongolia
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Title: Peacock Truly a colorful marvel .
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Title: Little Deers Gossolengo, Italy
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Title: Are You One Of Us? Capuchin baby monkey, Costa Rica
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Title: Tundra Swans in Snowstorm A heavy snowstorm hit the swans during a rest on their migration into the tundra
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Title: Fierce Hunter Alaskan bald eagle has earned his meal.
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Title: Wild Bees
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Title: A Large Migration of Wildebeest A large migration of Wildebeest
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Title: Sparrow's Dance Sparrow's dance
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Title: Sun-bleached Turtle Richardson Ocean Park, Maui, HI
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Title: The City Horse
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Title: Hyenas in the Bush Hyenas resting after eating hippo carcass - Zambia South Luangwa
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Title: Marabou Stork Zambia South Luangwa
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Title: Spider On the hills of Tuscany, On early morning, when the sun begin to rise and all you can feel is the breeze on your skin, you can find also a micro world made of little bugs waiting for the sun. And whil
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Title: Contemplation Gorilla In Field
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Title: Misty Morning Doe Misty morning in the Smoky Mountains
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Title: Rumpled Pigskin "Nosing" that camera!
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Title: Veil of Innocence Mother bird spreading her veil, protecting her young chick.
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Title: Preying Mantis This little critter came inside along with an armful of firewood. The macro lens came out and it became subject matter for the half an hour, before being taken back outside...
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Title: Dragonfly 1
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Title: One Happy Family Ma, Pa and Babe Baboon in the Botswana wilderness.
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Title: Red-billed Oxpecker The Red-billed Oxpecker performs an important cleaning service for the large lumbering Rhino
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Title: Cebruno Portrait Of a Pure PR Paso Fino Horse
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Title: Chestnut Chestnut Paso Fino
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Title: Jellyfish A jellyfish near the shore.
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Title: Seagulls A couple of seagulls in full discussion.
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Title: Expeditious, Flying Rapidly surprise on the swan of water
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