Cute little tern (Sternula albifrons/Sterna albifrons) chick on sandy beach calling in spring. (Photo by: Sven-Erik Arndt/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)





A seagull steals a fish from a puffin on Northumberland’s Farne Islands in the UK in the last decade of August 2024. (Photo by Mark Yeung/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News)





A blue tit and chaffinch lock legs in battle after the chaffinch was interrupted mid-meal in Aberystwyth, Wales on August 12, 2021. (Photo by Carl Bovis/Solent News)





A young wood duck leaps to the ground from its nest in a tree in southern Minnesota. (Photo by Stan Tekiela/Getty Images)





A pheasant-tailed jacana walks with its chicks over lily pads at a lily farm in Yilan county, eastern Taiwan, on July 12, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh/AFP Photo)





A loon chick catches a ride on the back of a parent, photographed in Canada. (Photo by Pchoui/iStockphoto via Getty Images)





Dalmatian pelicans jostle over a fish meal on September 9, 2021. Every year about 100 of the birds fly to feast at Lake Kerkini, central Macedonia, Greece. (Photo by Peter Bradley/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News)





A hawk is seen on a rock after being released in nature in Diyarbakir, Turkiye on April 19, 2022. Three hawks and a black stork released into the wild after their treatments. (Photo by Bestami Bodruk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Rufous-crested Coquette (Lophornis delattrei) nectaring on porterweed, Panama. (Photo by Juan Carlos Vindas/Getty Images)





A northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) in December 2020. This photo is part of a larger series entitled Beneath the Bird Feeder. A former comedian and ventriloquist, Carla Rhodes’ life was transformed when she discovered a passion for wildlife conservation photography. Last winter, she placed a camera trap in her garden in the Catskill mountains in New York state, with heartwarming results. (Photo by Carla Rhodes/The Guardian)





Two Japanese red-crowned cranes leap and dance, performing a courtship ritual in the snow. (Photo by Elmvilla/iStockphoto via Getty Images)





Puteketekes are pictured in Lake Alexandrina, Mackenzie Country, South Island, New Zealand, in this undated handout photo. (Photo by Leanne Buchan/Handout via Reuters)





A swan grooms itself on the River Wear in Durham, Britain, April 3, 2021. (Photo by Lee Smith/Reuters)





An underwater split shot of a heron perched above the water in a mangrove area in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. (Photo by Khaichuin Sim/Getty Images)





A hoopoe carries an insect to feed its waiting chick. (Photo by Trucxanh9/500px/Getty Images)





Great white pelicans swim at a water reservoir in the Emek Hefer valley, north of Tel Aviv, on November 27, 2020. An estimated 50,000 pelicans stop off in Israel during their annual migration from the Balkans to Africa, where they enjoy a mild winter before returning to Europe. They rest and feed for weeks, causing chaos for fish farmers, whose outdoor commercial pools and reservoirs provide rich pickings. Farmers have tried to deter them with loudspeakers, laser beams and by firing blank rounds from rifles. In their desperation, they have come up with another way: offering the birds a free lunch. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP Photo)





A peregrine falcon calls out as it perches on a branch above the Palisades Cliffs in Alpine, New Jersey, U.S. May 25, 2022. (Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters)





The cassowaries are ratites in the genus Casuarius and are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea, nearby islands, and northeastern Australia. Sydney, Australia. Wednesday 26th November 2014. (Photo by Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images)





A kingfisher grabbing a stickleback for lunch from the River Stour in Dorset in southwest England on October 2020. (Photo by Mark Parris/The Times)





Puffins return from wintering in the Atlantic Ocean to the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth displaying their bright summer colours. Here they find their long-term partners to breed, both male and female incubating the single egg. (Photo by Euan Cherry/WENN)