A common swift skims the water. (Photo by Robin Chittenden/Alamy Stock Photo)





American robin taking a bath in Montreal, Canada. (Photo by Mario Beauregard Beaustock/Alamy Stock Photo)





A black-winged stilt by the coast of the Sea of Azov, Kurortnoye, Leninsky District, Crimea on July 14, 2018. (Photo by Sergei Malgavko/TASS)





A little owl glares at a juvenile great spotted woodpecker in Ringmer, Lewes, East Sussex. (Photo by Phil Winter/South West News Service)





Penguins in Antarctica, one of many species that would benefit from a proposed ban on krill fishing in the region, that has now gained support from major fishing firms. (Photo by Christian Åslund/Greenpeace)





Aerial shot of flamingoes in a lake in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca. Spain. (Photo by Aleksandrs Tihonovs/Alamy Stock Photo)





A buzzard perched on lichen-covered rock in the Lake District, North West England. (Photo by Coatsey/Alamy Stock Photo)





White pelicans and seagulls in flight in the Danube Delta, Romania. (Photo by Stelian Porojnicu/Alamy Stock Photo)





A raven at the top of Stob Dearg on Buachaille Etive Mòr looks out to Glenco and beyond. Buachaille Etive Mòr is one of the best-known and loved of all the Munro peaks, Scotland. (Photo by Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian)





A coot chick at Pitsford Nature Reserve, Northamptonshire, England. (Photo by Martin Cushen/Alamy Stock Photo)





A jungle myna (Acridotheres fuscus) in Nepal. (Photo by Kumud Parajuli/Alamy Stock Photo)





An adult whooping crane, a critically endangered species, walks on a levee between crawfish ponds with its recently born chick, in Jefferson Davis Parish, La., Monday, June 11, 2018. Biologists estimate more than 10,000 whooping cranes had lived in North America before habitat loss and overhunting nearly killed them off. (Photo by Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)





250,000 gannets nest at the RSPB nature reserve at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, England. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Wire)





Liron Gertsman’s Cobalt-winged Parakeets in Yasuní national park, Ecuador. Youth Winner in the 2018 Audubon Photography Awards. (Photo by Liron Gertsman)





A male scarlet honeyeater feeding on a bottlebrush tree in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Tony Zuvela/Alamy Stock Photo)





Flamingoes gather for their afternoon feeding at the Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Thousands of greater flamingos live in the saltwater wetland park along the banks of the Dubai Creek. The 6-kilometer (3.73-mile) park was created by a ruler’s decree in 1985 and later fenced off. (Photo by Kamran Jebreili/AP Photo)





The black drongo lands on the five-foot-wingspan eagle and appears to peck it on the back of the head in the stunning snaps. Wildlife photographer Liu Chia-Pin snapped the crested serpent eagle resting on a branch as it tried to eat a snake it had caught in Taipei, Taiwan in Asia. The drongo then flew low and perched on the bird of prey. And the eagle eventually made off. The snapper said: “When the eagle was about to eat a snake, he did not expect the small bird to pounce. The small bird drove at the eagle and attacked. This species often shows aggressive behaviour to larger birds”. (Photo by Liu Chia-Pin/Hitchhiker/MediaDrumWorld.com)





Tens of thousands of identical birds cover every inch of a British farm as they come to steal cattle feed. The starlings, which travel to the UK every winter, pick up the the cows' food in what looks like a moving floor of blues, blacks and beaks. The tiny birds in their vast numbers stand in rows and columns almost like a crowd waiting to hear a great speech. But the cows seem completely unfazed by the presence of the birds and carry on as normal. (Photo by Frederic Desmette/Solent News and Photo Agency)





This perfectly-timed GoPro snap captures the moment an angrymagpiecame within inches of a biker, as swooping season takes hold in Australia. The notoriously aggressive bird can be seen flying with its wings tucked in so it looks exactly like a torpedo in the magnificent photograph from Middlemount, Queensland. Retail businesswoman Monique Newton, 53 was riding pillion with a friend when she spied the divebombing bird – but rather than speed off, they slowed down to capture it up close. (Photo by Monique Newton/Caters News Agency)