Canoe trip with swans on Lake Srovinaitis around Ginuciai, Aukstaitija National Park, Lithuania, Europe

Nazca booby (Sula grantii) downy chick stretching its wings to gather strength for flight in the Galapagos Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Young wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) on the wing near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

A young Pel's fishing-owl (Scotopelia peli), in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Africa

Swan in Richmond Park, at Pen Ponds at sunrise, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Young Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), bulls mock fighting at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, South Atlantic, Polar Regions

Female mallard and ducklings on the edge of Lusiai Lake at Paluse, Aukstaitija National Park, Lithuania, Europe

Black browed albatross chick, West Point Island, Falkland Islands, South America

A young great frigatebird (Fregata minor) in the nest on North Seymour Island, Galapagos, Ecuador, South America

Crowned plover or crowned lapwing (Vanellus coronatus) adult with two chicks, Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa, Africa

A young black-collared hawk (Busarellus nigricollis), Rio Negrio, Mato Grosso, Pantanal, Brazil, South America

A young red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), on a sign near Whitewater Draw, Coronado National Forest, Arizona, United States of America, North America

A young Green Heron (Butorides Virescens) fishing by a pond, Bermuda, Atlantic, North America

Portrait, nicaragua. Ribas, carazo. A young woman with a bird on her shoulder

Bluetit bird feeding hungry young nestling in a garden bird box, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Female Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, with young ducklings in a stream in The Cotswolds, UK

Spotted Owlet bird, Athene brama, in Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, Northern India

Bluetit hungry young nestling bird cheeping in a garden bird box, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Female Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, with young ducklings in a stream in The Cotswolds, UK

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

Female Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos, with young ducklings in a stream in The Cotswolds, UK

Bluetit bird feeding hungry young nestling in a garden bird box, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Bluetit hungry young nestling bird awaits feeding in a garden bird box, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Great Spotted Woodpecker makes nesting hole in Poplar tree , Hampstead, London, United Kingdom

Great Spotted Woodpecker makes nesting hole in Poplar tree , Hampstead, London, United Kingdom

Blue-footed Booby bird feeds juvenile on Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Female Osprey and juvenile perched on bare branches of tree, Daintree River, Queensland, Australia

Baby buzzard in barn, Asthall, The Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Blue-footed Booby bird on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador with a pair of young birds

Blue-footed Booby bird on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador sheltering young chicks

King penguin chicks and bird watching tourists on Salisbury Plain, South Georgia Island, Antarctica

Young man holding parrot, Kauai, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, United States of America, Pacific, North America

Blue-footed Booby bird on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador sheltering young birds

Flightless steamer duck (tachyceres brachypterus) new island, falkland islands, group of chicks huddled together on the beach.

Flightless steamer duck (tachyceres brachypterus) new island, falkland islands, group of chicks with mother, sitting on the beach.

Mute swan (cygnus olor) egg about to hatch, abbotsbury, uk

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnet on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Flightless steamer duck (tachyceres brachypterus) new island, falkland islands, mother calling, with group of chicks sat on beach.

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnets asleep on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnets on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Mute swan (cygnus olor) family of cygnets on nest, abbotsbury, uk

Mute swan (cygnus olor) egg about to hatch, abbotsbury, uk

A female Goosander, Mergus merganser,with young ducklings hitching a ride on her back on the river Brathay, Ambleside, Lake District, UK,

A young Song Thrush in a woodland in Kirkoswold, Eden Valley, Cumbria, UK.

On Friday 11th July 2014, the Young Ospreys that nest on Bassenthwaite in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK, are ringed and fitted with a satelite tracker. they are ringed by Pete Davis, a licensed bird ringer, and the satelite tracker is fitred by Roy Dennis. Roy is theonly person in the UK, licensed to fit satelite trackers to birds of prey. The tracing is part of the Bassenthwaite Osprey project, to see whereabouts in Africa the young migrate to, before returning hopefully to the UK to nest.Ospreys recolonized the Lake district in 2001, after an absence ovf over 150 years. In the last fourteen years of breeding over half a million people have visited the project to view these spectacular fish eating birds.

On Friday 11th July 2014, the Young Ospreys that nest on Bassenthwaite in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK, are ringed and fitted with a satelite tracker. they are ringed by Pete Davis, a licensed bird ringer, and the satelite tracker is fitred by Roy Dennis. Roy is theonly person in the UK, licensed to fit satelite trackers to birds of prey. The tracing is part of the Bassenthwaite Osprey project, to see whereabouts in Africa the young migrate to, before returning hopefully to the UK to nest.Ospreys recolonized the Lake district in 2001, after an absence ovf over 150 years. In the last fourteen years of breeding over half a million people have visited the project to view these spectacular fish eating birds.

On Friday 11th July 2014, the Young Ospreys that nest on Bassenthwaite in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK, are ringed and fitted with a satelite tracker. they are ringed by Pete Davis, a licensed bird ringer, and the satelite tracker is fitred by Roy Dennis. Roy is theonly person in the UK, licensed to fit satelite trackers to birds of prey. The tracing is part of the Bassenthwaite Osprey project, to see whereabouts in Africa the young migrate to, before returning hopefully to the UK to nest.Ospreys recolonized the Lake district in 2001, after an absence ovf over 150 years. In the last fourteen years of breeding over half a million people have visited the project to view these spectacular fish eating birds.

On Friday 11th July 2014, the Young Ospreys that nest on Bassenthwaite in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, UK, are ringed and fitted with a satelite tracker. they are ringed by Pete Davis, a licensed bird ringer, and the satelite tracker is fitred by Roy Dennis. Roy is theonly person in the UK, licensed to fit satelite trackers to birds of prey. The tracing is part of the Bassenthwaite Osprey project, to see whereabouts in Africa the young migrate to, before returning hopefully to the UK to nest.Ospreys recolonized the Lake district in 2001, after an absence ovf over 150 years. In the last fourteen years of breeding over half a million people have visited the project to view these spectacular fish eating birds.

King Penguins in the world's second largest King Penguin colony on Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Southern Ocean.

Wandering albatross (diomedea exulans) prion island, south georgia, adult feeding chick

White stork, stork, ciconia ciconia, mother and young standing in nest, spring, oetwil am see, zuerich, switzerland

Gentoo penguin. Pygoscelis papua. Royal bay, south georgia, antarctica

Wandering albatross (diomedea exulans) prion island, south georgia, chick sat on nest, close-up

Baby chick, freshly hatched sitting on eggs, studio, switzerland

Mute swan (cygnus olor) adult turning eggs on nest, abbotsbury, uk

White stork, stork, ciconia ciconia, weissstorch, storch, mother and young standing in nest, spring, oetwil am see, zuerich, switzerland

Upland goose (chloephaga picta) two chicks walking on sandy beach, new island, falkland islands.

Mute swan (cygnus olor) adult on nest turning eggs, abbotsbury, uk

Baby chick, freshly hatched sitting on eggs, studio, switzerland

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnets on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Mute swan (cygnus olor) resting head on its back, close-up view, abbotsbury, uk

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnets on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Gentoo penguin. Pygoscelis papua. Chick. Wiencke island. Antarctica

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnet asleep on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Wandering albatross (diomedea exulans) prion island, south georgia, chick sat on nest

Wandering albatross (diomedea exulans) prion island, south georgia, chick exercising wings

Mute swan (cygnus olor) close-up of cygnet, abbotsbury, uk

Baby chick, freshly hatched sitting on eggs, studio, switzerland

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnet on mothers back, abbotsbury, uk

Gentoo penguins. Pygoscelis papua. Juvenile gentoos hanging around a pool. Antarctica

Mute swan (cygnus olor) cygnet resting on the water, seen from above, oxfordshire, uk

A guinea-fowl chick.

A farmyard goose and goslings, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Young Tawny Owl chicks in the nest in a hollow tree in Ambleside, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Booby, juvenile, Bird Island, Mili, Marshall Islands, Pacific

Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria) nest with several young, Fazenda San Francisco, Miranda, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, South America

A pair of Mute Swans with a new cygnet in the Lake District Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A young Tawny Owl chick out of the nest in woodland in Ambleside, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Newly hatched blue tit chicks and adult in a nestbox

A pair of young Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) fishing for pink and dog salmon on Chichagof Island in Southeast Alaska, USA

Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) parent with two downy chicks on Pleneau Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula.

Adult Magellan goose or upland goose (Chloephaga picta) with goslings on Carcass Island in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean

A parent and chick Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Paulet Island on the Northeast side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) chicks creching on Devil Island on the Northeast side of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Adelie penguin chick (Pygoscelis adeliae) fledging its downy feathers for the adult feathers underneath on Devil Island, Antarctica.

Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) chicks covered with mud and guano on Cuverville Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean

Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) at a breeding and molting site in Estancia San Lorenzo on Peninsula Valdez, Patagonia, Argentina, South Atlantic

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) tobogganing near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

Sub-adult Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, breaching in northern Gulf of California, Mexico

Razorbill egg (Alca torda). L'Etac, Sark, British Channel Islands

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica.

Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) chick in the nest in the Galapagos Island Archipelago, Ecuador

Juvenile great frigate bird (Fregata minor) nesting and breeding site on North Seymour Island in the Galapagos Island Group, Ecuador. Pacific Ocean.

Young southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) with onlookers on the beach at South Georgia in the Southern Ocean

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) killing and eating a juvenile Ad?lie penguin at Brown Bluff near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean

Brown Skua (Catharacta antarctica) chick on South Georgia Island in the Southern Ocean

The Kelp Goose (Chloephaga hybrida), is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae

A leucistic Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) adult feeding its "normal" colored chicks on Devil Island near the Antarctic Peninsula

Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) newly hatched chick in the Galapagos Island Archipelago, Ecuador

Curious king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) breeding and nesting colony at St. Andrews Bay on South Georgia, Southern Ocean.