Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae), leaping into the sea at Booth Island, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), Madeira island, Atlantic Ocean, Portugal

A Little Egret (Egretta garzetta), during the breeding season, on Brownsea Island, a nature reserve in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) pair, on Brownsea Island, a nature reserve in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Adult male long-tailed meadowlark (Sturnella loyca) in breeding plumage on New Island in the Falkland Islands

Adult male common eider ducks (Somateria mollissima) in breeding plumage in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

Adult Atlantin puffin (Fratercula arctica) during breeding season on Sumburgh Head, Shetlands, Scotland, United Kingdom

Adult whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus), pair on nest near Lake Myvatn, Iceland

Adult Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) in breeding plumage on Lake Myvatn, Iceland

Adult red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) in breeding plumage on Flatey Island, Iceland

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) chicks (okum boys) at nesting colony at Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Adult Subantarctic Skua (Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi) cleaning itself in glacier run off at Stromness Bay, South Georgia, Polar Regions

An Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), in Borgarfjaroarhofn, Iceland, Polar Regions

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) breeding and nesting colony on South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Pink-footed Geese migration, Holkham, Norfolk. Migrating birds could risk Avian Flu (Bird Flu Virus)

Birdwatchers inside bird hide watch migrating geese over-wintering near Holkham, Norfolk, East Anglia, United Kingdom

Pink-footed Geese migration, Holkham, Norfolk. Migrating birds could risk Avian Flu (Bird Flu Virus)

Migrating Pink-Footed geese over-wintering near Holkham, North Norfolk coast, East Anglia, Eastern England

Common crane (Grus grus), duet call, Guenzer Seewiesen, spring migration, Necklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) migrating north in late April to nesting grounds in Alaska, cries out from a farmer's field in Palmer, Alaska. Located in the Matanuska Valley, Palmer was founded as an agricultural colony in the mid-20th century, Palmer, Alaska, United States of America

Toad in Biotope, Bufo bufo, Munich, Bavaria, Germany