Female mallard duck with newly hatched ducklings, Anas platyrhynchos, on a stream in springtime at Swinbrook, the Cotswolds, UK

Female mallard duck with 14 newly hatched ducklings, Anas platyrhynchos, on a stream in springtime at Swinbrook, the Cotswolds, UK

Female mallard duck with new ducklings, Anas platyrhynchos, strolling on garden patio in springtime at Swinbrook, the Cotswolds, UK

Female Canada Goose, Branta canadensis, with young goslings, on River Windrush at Swinbrook, the Cotswolds, UK

Flight of Spoonbills, Ars en Re, Ile de Re, France

Bay horse and skewbald horse mutual grooming in a paddock, Oxfordshire, England

Elephant Seals lying on beach, Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands

A pair of Upland Geese on Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic (The female goose has a ruddy heads, the male has a white head).

Elephant Seals, Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands

Mallard duck with her twelve ducklings in an English country garden

Shetland pony and foal , North Island, New Zealand

Lamb in Stanway, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Female mallard duck with new ducklings, Anas platyrhynchos, on a stream in springtime at Swinbrook, the Cotswolds, UK

Shetland pony foal , North Island, New Zealand

White-fronted terns (Sterna Striata) on a beach near South Head on the Tasman Sea, North Island, New Zealand

Mallard duck with her twelve ducklings, Oxfordshire, England

Lambs in Stanway, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Sheep with young lambs, Cotswolds England

Sheep with young lambs, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, England

Mallard ducklings just one day old

Red Deer, Scotland, United Kingdom

Close up of group of young people's feet with funky shoes

A reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) cow with her new calf, calf staying very close to protective cow, Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center; Portage, Alaska, United States of America