Three swallows perching, bird on the wire, in County Clare, West of Ireland

Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, river scene in the Everglades, Florida, USA

Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias, in the Everglades, Florida, USA

Kazakh man singing and playing the dombra for a woman, Kazakh ethnographic village aul Gunny, Talgar, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Asia

Drummers at a temple festival, Varkala, Kerala, India, Asia

Dance of the native people, Damara Living Museum, near Twyfelfontein, Namibia, Africa

Catholic base community, Bolivians in the traditional dress of the Quechua Indians making music and singing together, El Alto, Departamento La Paz, Bolivia, South America

Imaginative costumes at the carnival, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

European bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) sitting on branch of an acacia, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe