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Puff perfect by José Juan Hernández Martinez, Spain. Winner, animal portraits. Hernández Martinez arrived at the bird’s courtship site at night. By the light of the moon, he dug himself a low hide. From this vantage point he caught the bird’s full puffed-out profile as it took a brief rest from its frenzied performance. A Canarian houbara male returns annually to its courtship site. Raising the plumes from the front of its neck and throwing its head back, it will race forward before circling back, resting just seconds before starting again. La Oliva, Fuerteventura, Spain. (Photo by José Juan Hernández Martinez/Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
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