Images Dated 27th September 2016

Antique ark (Anadara antiquata)

Antique ark (Anadara antiquata), a large shell of the Indo-Pacific including Australia, usually about 7 cm across. New Caledonia

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King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus)

King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony incubating their single egg on their feet. The parents share the incubation duties in two or three week cycles. Falkland Islands, South Atlantic

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An ornithologist banding a Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

An ornithologist banding a Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) at the Col de Bretolet operated by the Swiss Ornithological Institute where every year between ten and twenty thousand migrating birds of a hundred species are caught, ringed, recorded and released. Alps, Canton of Valais, Switzerland

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