Reed parrotbill in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province. (Photo by Pacific Press/Barcroft Images)





The first of this year’s cygnets hatches at Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset, UK. (Photo by Graham Hunt/Alamy Live News)





A King Island brown thornbill is a passerine bird usually found in eastern and south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Residents of King Island fear the bird may be almost extinct. (Photo by Chris Tzaros/Birds Bush and Beyond)





Blue-throated bee-eaters perch on a branch in Luxia Town, Nanping City, in south-east China’s Fujian province. (Photo by Mei Yongcun/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Images)





A gentoo penguin at Brown’s Station, Paradise Bay, in the Antarctic. This week when it was revealed that plastics had finally reached the world’s last great wilderness of Antarctica. (Photo by Paul Hilton/Greenpeace)





A common crane with chick, WWT Slimbridge, Gloucester, UK. (Photo by Phillip Cull/Alamy Stock Photo)





Two sandhill cranes perform a mating dance among Canada geese in Rookery View Park, Wausau, Wisconsin, US. (Photo by Michael Tatman/Alamy Stock Photo)





A great crested grebe feeding a chick on its parent’s back at a nest in Walthamstow Reservoirs, London, UK. (Photo by Dominic Robinson/Alamy Stock Photo)





A male vermilion flycatcher perched in a tree in Jocotepec, Jalisco, Mexico. (Photo by Peter Llewellyn/Alamy Stock Photo)





Goldfinches in a snowy garden, Burley in Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, UK. (Photo by Rebecca Cole/Alamy Stock Photo)





A flock of geese over Chew valley lakes on a cold November morning in the UK. (Photo byRobert Timoney/Alamy Stock Photo)





Rockhopper penguins pictured at Sea Lion's rugged coastline in Falklands Islands. One of the smallest and the most southerly of the Falklands islands, Sea Lion Island is home to many species of birds and mammals. During his time on the island in November 2017, Photographer Craig Jones was fortunate to capture photos of the islands Rockhopper penguin residents. Spotted on several stretches along Sea Lion?s rugged coastline, the Rockhopper Penguins were coming shore and then heading back to their mates and nests. Rockhoppers often nest on high cliffs and the walk to the sea and back is a dangerous one. The photographer observed the penguins getting battered by the Atlantic Ocean before coming ashore, without any injuries, and then heading to relieve the mates sitting on eggs and the young. The penguins would take it in turn to repeat the cycle a few times each day. (Photo by Craig Jones/Barcroft Images)





Visiting swallows stay low in high winds at a lake near Dunstable in England, UK. (Photo by Tony Margiocchi/Barcroft Images)





Puffins on the Farne Islands off the UK’s Northumberland coast, where National Trust rangers have found numbers have plummeted. (Photo by Paul Kingston/North News & Pictures/National Trust)





A griffon vulture flies over the Uvac river in the Uvac special nature reserve, Serbia. (Photo by Alamy Stock Photo)





A penguin feeds a young one on Curverville Island, Antarctica, February 15, 2018. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





Incredible images have captured a waddle of Gentoo penguins dancing along the water's edge like a scene out of hit animation film Happy Feet. The stunning pictures show the 28-inch-tall penguins congregating in a group as they take turns to jump high into the air. Other striking shots show the 12-pound penguins flapping their wings as they jump and dance in unison while some shuffle on ahead. The amusing photographs were taken in Danco Island, Antartica by photography guide David Merron (41) from Vancouver, Canada. (Photo by David Merron/Mediadrumworld)





A brown-hooded kingfisher sits on a branch with a freshly caught frog in it's beak. Riaan Marais who took the photo said, “We were doing a boat safari on the Rufiji river in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania when I spotted the bird with the frog on an overhanging branch on the river bank. It most probably caught the frog in the reeds along the river’s edge as this is where these frogs stay. The kingfisher must have caught the Common Reed Frog just before I took the image, as the frog was still alive, I had a brief moment to take the image before the bird flew off with the frog”. (Photo by Riaan Marais/Solent News and Photo Agency)