www.ardea.com - wildlife, pets, environment

ARDEA HOME   |   FIND PHOTOS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS   |   FIND PHOTOS BY KEYWORD   |   FIND PHOTOS BY CAPTION   |   LINKS   |   ARDEA WEBSITE LINKS

This text will be inserted in the body of the photo captions page(s). Write specific text or a general description that is useful for the search engines. Ardea is a one of the leading suppliers of natural history images for use within the trade. With wildlife, pet and environmental images from around the world, we specialise in all wildlife pictures including birds, mammals, underwater, amphibians, reptiles, insects, plants, trees as well as virtually every breed of domestic pet. Ardea can provide high quality scans via email, or you can search and download digital images from our searchable website, where you will find all the wildlife, pet or environmental images you need.

To locate a photo you can find on these pages, click a link below;

Page: 1  
Photo Captions Page 1  Photo Captions Page 2  Photo Captions Page 3  Photo Captions Page 4  Photo Captions Page 5  Photo Captions Page 6  Photo Captions Page 7  Photo Captions Page 8  Photo Captions Page 9  Photo Captions Page 10  

Robin - with young in nest, in shed


Sunset silhouettes of Cardon cactus and Adam's Tree (Fouquieria diguetii)


Coastal Agave


Agave (coastal Agave)


Coastal agave


Rainbow


Baja California Gopher snake


Baja California Gopher snake


Baja California Gopher snake


Fin Whale - note characteristic white color of right side of lower jaw (left side is dark as rest of the body)


Fin Whale - appearing above water


Fin Whale - the organisms attached to the dorsal fin and alongside the body of the whale are "pseudo stalked barnacles" (Xenobalanus globicipitis)


Blue Whale, mother and calf near surface


Blue Whale, mother and calf near surface


Blue Whale - this whale has been gathering food deep within the water column and reaches the surface with the throat pleats still distended, forming an enormous pouch


Blue Whale - this whale has been gathering food deep within the water column and reaches the surface with the throat pleats still distended, forming an enormous pouch


Blue Whale - near surface


Blue Whale - near surface, blowing


Blue Whale - near surface


Blue Whales - Near surface


Blue Whale - near surface


California gray whale - adult


California gray whale - adult


California Gray Whale - adult, photo taken from above the left side of a gray whale, showing the widely spaced bristles or hairs, sprouting from small dimples on the skin of the upper jaw


California gray whale - adult, colony of barnacles (Cryptolepas rhachianecti) and Cyamid crustaceans on the head of a gray whale


Gray whale - mother with calf raising its head over its mother's body, a calf looks at the small whale watching boat from which the photo is taken


Gray Whale - mother and calf , calf leans its head on its mother's back


Gray Whale - mother and calf resting at the surface


Gray Whale - calf


Gray whale - calf raising its head over its mother's body, a calf opens its mouth while looking at the small whale watching boat from which the photo is taken


Gray Whale - calf playing near its mother, a calf opens its mouth, showing its white baleen


Gray whale - calf


Gray whale - calf


Gray whale - calf 's eye


Gray whale - spyhopping


Gray Whale - spyhopping


Gray Whale - spyhopping


Gray Whale - underwater photo of a calf. The mother is barely visible behind the calf.


Gray Whale - underwater photo of a calf at close range


Gray Whale - mother and calf


Gray Whale - head of an adult gray whale


Gray Whale - mother (in front), and calf


Gray Whale - calf on top of mother's back


Gray Whale - underwater close-up of a calf. The mother is in the lower left, she is swimming upside-down (a throat groove is visible in the lower left corner of the image).


Gray Whale - underwater photo of a calf. The mother is barely visible below the calf


Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whale and whale watching boats


Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whale and whale watchers


Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whales, calf and mother, and a young tourist.


Gray Whale - "Friendly" gray whale, a whale watcher reaches out to touch the snout of an adult whale


Aerial view of two islands of the Bay of La Paz: Espiritu Santo and Partida, separated by a narrow channel


Aerial view of Danzante Island (foreground) and the Baja Peninsula, south of Loreto


Emperor Penguin - chick, wearing christmas scarf


Emperor Penguin - Adult with young wearing Christmas hat


Robin - in snow covered garden


Olive Grove - with wildflowers


Scot's Pine - in winter


Slender loris


Abyssinian Ground Hornbill


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - with wings spread


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - eating


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - in flight


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill - in flight.


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill


Tawny / Steppes Eagle - pale form


Hamerkop


Marabou Stork - group in water


Marabou Stork - group in water


Marabou Stork - group in water


Marabou Stork - eating pieces of tilapia and cat fish


Marabou Stork - eating pieces of tilapia and cat fish


White-browed Sparrow-Weaver - at nest


White-browed Sparrow-Weaver


Sacred Ibis


Sacred Ibis


Abyssinian / Northern Ground Hornbill


Silvery-cheeked Hornbill


European Wolf - portrait, in snow


European Wolf - in snow, snarling


European Wolf - alert in snow


Tulip-Tree - in Wilhems-Hšhe hill park


Teal - drake swimming on lake


Teal - drake resting on branch in lake


Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland


Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland


Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland


Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland


Summer Snowflake - flowering in deciduous woodland


Hill Stream - Flowing Water


Siskins and Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) - at feeder in garden


Siskin - 2 birds at feeder in garden


Robin - portrait, in garden


Robin - in garden


Robin - singing from fir tree in garden


Moorhen - 2 birds standing in snow


Moorhen - walking through snow


Hellebore Blossom - in garden, Febuary


Grey Wagtail - male singing from rock in hill stream


Grey Wagtail - male courtship displaying on rock in hill stream


Grey Wagtail - female with nest material in beak


Greenfinch and Siskin (Carduelis spinus) - at feeder in garden


Eagle Owl - sitting on boulder


Dipper - resting on stone in hill stream


Dipper - searching for food in hill stream


Dipper - in hill stream


Dipper - in hill stream, portrait


Comma - feeding on ornamental heather in garden


Comma - feeding on ornamental heather in garden


Burchell's / Common Zebra - Portrait


Yellowhammer - male bird tending chicks at nest


Wild Pig - young animal stretching itself, in snow


White-faced Saki- portrait of male


Sumatra Tiger - male and female playing


Sumatra Tiger - snarling


Sumatra Tiger - drinking, portrait


Sumatra Tiger - portrait


Hawthorn Blossom - flowering in open hedge landscape


Lowland Tapir - calf standing alert


Sable Antelope - young buck


White Rhinoceros / Square-lipped rhino


White Rhinoceros / Square-lipped rhino


Red-Backed Shrike - male with bumble-bee in beak


Black-tailed Prairie Dog - yawning


Black-tailed Prairie Dog - 2 baby animals playing


Black-tailed Prairie Dog - 3 animals in a row


Black-tailed Prairie Dog - relaxing


Black-tailed Prairie Dog - mother playing with baby


Black-tailed Prairie Dog - eating carrot


European Lynx - climbing down tree stem


Lesser Kudu - Female, portrait


Lesser Kudu - Female, portrait


Ring-tailed Lemur - portrait, sitting on grass


Red Kangaroo - mother with joey


Red Kangaroo - portrait of joey


Red Kangaroo - mother with joey


Red Kangaroo - Joey


Red Kangaroo - joey


Red Kangaroo - in motion, leaping


Red Kangaroo - standing on hind legs, balancing on its tail


Red Kangaroo - 2 animals boxing


Impala - fawns seeking shadow of bush


Impala - herd alert to approaching thunder


Impala - With Red-billed Oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) on ears


Impala - buck, with lip caught on thorny bush


Impala - buck standing between 2 trees


Extensive mature flowering hedge - on edge of dandelion filled meadow


Extensive mature hedge landscape - in autumn colour


Lowland Gorilla - portrait


Southern Giraffe - portrait


Garden Warbler - parent bird feeding chicks


Common Marmoset - sittting on stem


Common Marmoset - portrait


Common Marmoset - portrait


Chamois - male resting on rocky ledge


Blue and Yellow Macaws - pair on branch


Blackthorn - hedge, flowering in April


European Bee-eater - with dragonfly in beak


Asian Elephant - baby animal trumpeting


African Elephant - Bull, portrait


African Elephant - Bull, showing threatening behaviour


Delicate Arch - probably the best-known natural arch in the USA


Delicate Arch - probably the best-known natural arch in the USA, evening light.


General view across "The Windows" area towards La Sal mountains, in winter, evening light


General view across "The Windows" area towards La Sal mountains, in winter, evening light


General view across "The Windows" area towards La Sal mountains, in winter, evening light


Autumn along the Virgin River (North Fork), with cottonwoods


Autumn along the Virgin River (North Fork), with cottonwoods


Fallen autumn leaves of box elder and cottonwood


Autumn in cottonwoods and box elders in autumn colour.


Autumn along the Virgin River (North Fork), with cottonwoods


Cottonwoods or poplars in autumn colour


Cottonwoods or poplars in autumn colour


Huge sandstone cliff at checkerboard mesa


Forest fire, in open scrub/woodland with pines


Forest fire, in open scrub/woodland with pines


Sagebrush high desert land


Sagebrush high desert land


Figure and pumpkins, set up to commemorate Hallowe'en


Bryce Canyon National Park - dawn view from Sunset Point


Bryce Canyon National Park - at night, with starry clear sky


Bryce Canyon National Park - Hoodoos and cliffs below Sunset Point


Bryce Canyon National Park, Sandstone cliffs below Sunset Point.


Bryce Canyon National Park - Hoodoes and cliffs from Sunset Point


Bryce Canyon National Park - trail down into canyon from Sunrise Point, with walkers


Bryce Canyon, National Park, Fairview, Utah, USA


Bryce Canyon National Park, general view from Bryce Point at dawn


High desert in Utah, near Eureka. Invaded by tamarisk


Basin and Range geological formation, looking east from Mount Wheeler on the Nevada/Utah border


Ancient bristlecone pine trees


Ancient bristlecone pine trees


Raven on perch


Leucospermum sp


Giant Sequoia trees


Giant Sequoia trees


Raven in flight


Ancient Utah Juniper


Ponderosa pine forest - in snow


Ancient Utah Juniper - in winter


Fossil tree trunks from c. 225 million years ago; mainly Araucarioxylon and Woodworthia


Raven


Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA


Canyon de Chelly National Monument


The White House ruin


Raven in flight


Ancient Pinyon Pine


Navajo power plant


The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks


The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks


The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks


The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks


The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks


The Wave - an extraordinary area of sinuous eroded banded sandstone rocks


Lake Powell reservoir on the Colorado River


Mormon tea


Round-leaved buffaloberry


Erosion holes in sandstone cliff


A desert Yucca


Mule deer


Sunrise over the Henry Mountains


Juniper tree


View of the extensive Waterpocket Fold


Solar panel array in Natural Bridges National Monument


13th century native indian cliff buildings


Aspen Forest in winter


Distinctive erosion patterns in sandstone cliff


Rock varnish, formed on sandstone cliffs over long period by bacterial action


Arches National Park


Lilly-pilly with berries


A giant horsetail


'Wesley Rose' A burnt candytuft


Serpentine outcrop on Mount Tamalpais (mt. Tam)


Cardon cactus


Old man cactus, or Senita


The cactus-rich part of the Sonoran desert


Western Gull


Sea purslane


Rich and varied shell fauna on the beaches of San Ignacio lagoon


Brush rabbit


Brush rabbit


Brush rabbit


Whale Watchers


Pair of common ravens perched in a boojum tree


Boojum trees


4wd vehicle on the beach at Cabo San Quintin


Huge sand dune system on Cape St. Quintin/Cabo San Quintin


Shaw's Agave


Black Chinned Yuhina


Black Chinned Yuhina


Turkey, domestic (male with wattles)


White Cheeked Touraco


Livingstone's Turaco


Livingstone's Turaco


Sun Conure


Sun Bittern


Southern stone curlew


Roul-Roul Partridge / Crested Wood Partridge - Male


Feral Pigeon


Peacock - male displaying


Ceylon Blue Crowned Hanging Parrot


Red Legged Honeycreeper


Rosy Flamingo


Emu


Emu


Emu


Cockatiel on dead tree


Cockatiel at entrance to nest in hollow tree


Moose cow


Bull moose - in velvet, foraging for browse


Bull moose - in velvet - foraging for browse


Bull moose - in velvet foraging for browse


Bull moose - in velvet - crossing road


Varied Sitella / White-winged Sitella


Rainbow Bee-eater - chick in nest hole


Mangrove Grey Fantail


Lesser-crested Tern - in flight


Double-barred Finch


Double-barred Finch - eating Spinifex, Triodia sp. seeds


Brown Goshawk - brooding chicks


King Brown / Mulga Snake - with tongue out


Black Grasswren - female


Banded Honeyeater - immature


Greenshank


Broad-billed Sandpiper in winter plumage


Grey-tailed Tattler - winter-plumaged bird with leg flag


Grey-tailed Tattler - peering sideways


Osprey - carrying fish


House Sparrow - female


Common Myna - bathing in a stream


Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water), disguising itself in waterplants


Russian Desman - caught for tagging


Russian Desman, caught for tagging


Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of the water), disguising itself in waterplants


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman


Russian Desman


Russian Desman


Russian Desman - caught for tagging


Russian Desman - caught for tagging


Russian Desman - caught in a snare


Russian Desman - caught in a snare


Russian Desman - typical burrow


Russian Desman - typical burrow


Russian Desmans - in the burrow


Russian Desman - swimming (from underneath)


Russian Desman - swimming (from underneath)


Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water)


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman - typical habitat


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman - adult's footprints on wet sand of a river beach


Russian Desman - adults from one burrow - feed on a fresh-water mussels


Russian Desman - adult on hind legs, searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman - feeds on a fresh-water mussel


Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - female, view from back (note the flat tail)


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - showing teeth


Russian Desman - adult female searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture


Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell


Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture


Russian Desman - adult female - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture


Russian Desman - adult female, feeds on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture


Russian Desman - habitat


Russian Desman - habitat


Russian Desman - habitat


Stokesay Castle


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard - female in the rain


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard male displaying with female


Great Bustard male displaying with female


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard - In flight


Great Bustard - In flight


Great Bustard - Female and young males


Great Bustard - Male with the wing outstretched, standing on one leg


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Dehesa landscape with Olive Groves and Oak Trees


Wheatear - Male on rock


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard - female in the rain


Great Bustard displaying male


Cattle Egret on sheep


Merino Sheep


Merino Sheep


Merino Sheep


Merino Sheep - Feeding


Great Bustard displaying male


Benquerencia de la serena, Extremadura. Spain


Great Bustard displaying male


Merino Sheep - Feeding


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard - female


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Cattle Egret on sheep


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustard displaying male


Great Bustards - female


Killer whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Golden orb weaver


Brown Pelican - diving over a school of fish


Killer whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - pod traveling near shore


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Killer Whale - this population of killer whales feed on herring


Watching Belugas


Beluga


Beluga


Beluga


Golden Orb Weaver Spider


Mallard Duck - male


Wood Duck - male


Wood Duck - male


Wood Duck - male


The Book Cliffs are carved into the Mancos Shale (marine deposits, grey talus slope), capped by sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Upper Cretaceous


The Book Cliffs are carved into the Mancos Shale (marine deposits, grey talus slope), capped by sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Upper Cretaceous


The Book Cliffs are carved into the Mancos Shale (marine deposits, grey talus slope), capped by sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Upper Cretaceous


Mallard Duck - pair


Emperor Penguin - young wearing Chistmas hat


Emperor Penguins - 4 young ones walking in a line, wearing Christmas hats.


Aye-aye - Endangered Species


Black Bear - damaged tree. Bears strip the bark and then eat the thin cambium layer.


Pronghorn Antelope - running


Pronghorn Antelope - running in grassland.


Pronghorn Antelope - buck running through autumn tinged grass.


Pronghorn - buck and doe. Buck is chasing doe who has bolted from his harem.


White-tail Deer - in autumn


House Finch - male in redbud tree, spring


Western scrub-jay - among autumn leaves


Western Sheep Moth - on lupine wildflower in subalpine meadow, summer


White-tailed Deer - buck among prairie wildflowers, summer


White-tailed Deer - buck walking through marsh grass in early autumn


White-tail Deer - buck grazing among wildflowers


Steller's Jay


White-tailed Deer - buck in spring


Western Scrub-Jay - among autumn leaves


Black Vulture


Old strangler fig - with aerial roots


Great Blue Heron


Slash pine (Pinus elliottii) and saw-palmetto woodland


Gumbo limbo tree / Tourist tree


Osprey - eating recently-caught fish on a branch, male


Osprey - eating recently-caught fish on a branch, male


Red mangroves, with stilt roots


Periphyton algae - floating on water surface


Pond cypress swamp


Intensive irrigation from groundwater


American Alligator


American Alligator - cruising in front of breeding colony of double-crested cormorants in mangroves


Great Blue Heron


Wood Stork - in water


Wood Stork


Wood Stork - in water


Black Vultures - in huge flock, circling in the sky


Black Vultures - in huge flock, circling in the sky


Tricoloured Heron - in water


Tricoloured Heron - in water


Double-breasted / Double-crested Cormorant


Great White Egret / Great White Heron


Great White Egret / Great White Heron - fishing, with group of birdwatchers ignoring it


New Zealand Christmas Tree / Pohutukawa in flower


Lemon bottlebrush in flower


Common Salvinia - a floating water fern. Invasive in North America, originally from S. America.


Baton-rouge lichen on wood


Red mangrove - stilt roots exposed at low tide, with seedlings growing up through them


Red mangrove - in fruit, this develops and germinates on the tree, then spears into the mud


Red mangrove - in fruit, this develops and germinates on the tree, then spears into the mud


Red mangrove in flower


Coastal lagoon with algae


Yellow-crowned night heron


Shells on Bowman Beach on Sanibel Island, Florida, USA


Great Blue Heron


Great Blue Heron - on beach


Willet - on beach


Black Skimmer - resting during the day on the beach


Black Skimmer - resting during the day on the beach


Laughing Gull - in breeding plumage on beach


Great Blue Heron - on beach by fishing rod


Royal Tern - non-breeding plumage on beach


Royal Tern, non-breeding plumage


Royal Tern, non-breeding plumage


Royal Tern, non-breeding plumage


Laughing gull - immature, winter


Sandwich Tern - in non-breeding plumage


Swamp cypress woodland


Gray Catbird - relative of mockingbirds


Great White Egret / Great White Heron


Cardinal Airplant, Florida bromeliad / Wild-pine. Attractive, large epiphytic bromeliad, also grown in gardens


Swamp Cypress woodland - in with abundant epiphytes, especially bromeliads


Florida Gar Fish - can survive in deoxygenated waters with the aid of an air bladder


Great Blue Heron - catching and killing a walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) an Asian introduced fish, spreading rapidly in the Everglades


Great Blue Heron - catching and killing a walking catfish (Clarias batrachus) an Asian introduced fish, spreading rapidly in the Everglades


American crow, killing and eating young Florida Redbelly Turtle (Pseudemys nelsoni)


Tricoloured Heron


Snowy Egret - in tree.


Ylang-ylang, in flower


Fer-de-Lance snake - coiled, an aggressive and highly venomous snake


Buff-throated Saltator


Pink polkadot plant / Freckle Face


A tropical Palm Tree


A wild fig, in fruit.


Bouganvillea spectabilis


A Garden Yucca


A wild pineapple


Passion flower


Lichen in high Costa Rican forest


Purple-throated Mountain Gem - female


Green Violet-ear Hummingbird


Rufous-collared sparrow


Noni / Indian mulberry - medicinal for many purposes


Canal overhung by raffia palms


Spectacled Caiman


Canal overhung by raffia palms


Black Wood Turtle


Owl Butterfly


Sensitive plant, in flower


Golden orb-weaver spider


Wolf Spider - female guarding her newly-emerged young spiderlings


Royal Terns and Neotropical Cormorant, perched on log in river estuary


Environmentally-friendly coffee plantations in the mountains of central Costa Rica


American Crocodiles basking on river bank


View of the Tarcolis river, with Carara National Park beyond, and American crocodiles on the banks


Baobab tree, in cultivation.


Red powder puff in flower


Lignum-vitae / Holy wood - produces one of the hardest and most durable woods


Madagascar / Rosy Periwinkle - grown in gardens, but also highly-active medicinally, with at least 70 alkaloids


Everglades view, with swamp cypress, cabbage palm, and egrets


Dahoon holly with berries


Leaf of cabbage palm


Bark of slash pine


Cabbage Palm in slash pine (Pinus elliottii) woodland, everglades


Wood Pigeons - mating


Wood Pigeons - mating


Mute Swan - in aggresive pose


Common Starling - bathing in puddle


Grey Squirrel - feeding inside 'squirrel proof' bird nut feeder.


Grey Squirrel - feeding inside 'squirrel proof' bird nut feeder.


Grey Squirrel - feeding inside 'squirrel proof' bird nut feeder


Pheasant - adult male in long grass


Moorhen - nesting on punts


Roe Deer - male


Roe Deer - male


Fieldfare - in January snow


House Martins - collecting roof insulation for nesting material


House Martins - collecting roof insulation for nesting material


Common Swift - in flight.


Pallid Swift - in flight.


Pallid Swift - in flight


Pallid Swift - in flight


Little Swift - in flight


Little Swift - in flight


Bird tracks - left in snow


Greater Flamingo - on one leg


Wreckfish


White-blotched Triggerfish - widespread among shallow coral reefs


Surgeonfish - coral reef fish


Spotted Ray - lying on sea bed part covered with sand that it has shaken on to itself


Pout / Bib - shows sensory barbel below chin


Pout/ Bib - shows sensory barbel below chin


Plaice - lives on sea bed, lying on its right side


Plaice - lives on sea bed, lying on its right side


Red Piranha - freshwater fish


African Pigmy Angel Fish


Fossil percoid fish, Eocene, Italy


Mandarin Fish - shallow coastal waters


Lionfish / Dragonfish - common on shallow coral reefs


Leopard Shark - on or near the bottom in coastal and deeper waters


Killifish - freshwater fish


Yellow-headed Jawfish - displaying outside its burrow on sea floor


Spanish Mackerel


Tub Gurnard


Gudgeon - freshwater fish


Greater Spotted Dogfish - teeth and jaws, teeth continuously replaced from behind


Long Snouted Pipefish - largest freshwater pipefish


Lake Malawi Cichlid - Lake Malawi and aquaria


Lake Malawi Cichlid - male, shallow and mid-depths of Lake Malawi (and aquaria


Common (Giant) Gourami - originally from Java and Sumatra, now widespread in aquaria


Downpoker Mormyrid - uses electric senses for navigation in the dark and in muddy water


Blue Damselfish


Cow Nosed Ray - endangered species


Congo Tetra - freshwater fish


Bristle-nosed Catfish - freshwater fish


Common Carp


Common Carp


Common Carp and Mirror Carp (variant)


Common Carp


Common Carp


Long Nosed Butterfly Fish - long snout assists in feeding in tiny crevices inaccesssible to other fish


Bichir, primitive air breathing fish, freshwater


Beaked Coral Fish


Lungfish


Lungfish


Common Eel - European freshwaters, but then migrates to the sea


Common Eel - European freshwaters, but then migrates to the sea


Anemone Fish - unharmed among tentacles of sea anemone


Anemone Fish - unharmed among tentacles of sea anemone


Anemone Fish - unharmed among tentacles of sea anemone


Robin - in snow


Vivian's House Ruins - Megalithic ruin


Vivian's House Ruins - megalitihc ruin


Tregastel La Couronne, Brittany, France


Pointe Pen' Hir monument WW II, Brittany, France


Rocky coastline - Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Boat out in stormy sea, Brittany, France


Seaweed on beach, Pors Hir, Brittany, France


Scallops


Boats in harbour with lighthouse


Waves crashing against rocky coastline


Storm at sea with Herring Gulls in foreground


Pors-Poulhan Finistere dolmen, Brittany, France


Rocky coastline, Pointe Pen' Hir, Brittany, France


Waves crashing against rocky coastline


Face in rock, Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Rocky coastline, Pointe Pen' Hir, Brittany, France


Waves crashing against rocky coastline


Camaret-sur-Mer menhir Lagatjar, Brittany, France


Old Costums House, Meneham, Brittany, France


The fountain of Eternal Youth, Brittany, France


Waves crashing against rocky coastline


Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Rocky Coastline, Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Footpath leading to beach


Pollution on rocky coastline


Carnac menhirs - Neolithic


Pollution on rocky coastline


Waves crashing against rocky coastline


Tourist Information Sign - Carnac menhirs, Neolithic


Rocks on coastline - Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Carnac menhirs - Neolithic


Druid hill, Broceliande, Brittany, France


Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France


Druid hill - Paimpont forest, Broceliande, Paimpont, Rennes, Brittany, France


Old Costums House, Meneham, Brittany, France


Rainbow over rocky coastline


Waves crashing against rocky coastline


Carnac menhirs - Neolithic


Old Chapel on coastline, Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Face in Rock, Ploumanach, Brittany, France


Lighthouse Loctudy, Brittany, France


Old Costums House, Meneham, Brittany, France


Carnac menhirs / Stones, Neolithic


Lighthouse


Old Boat on shore by harbour


Yew with berries


Yew - with berries


Goat - being fed by woman from a pot in field


Turkeys - group at turkey 'playground'


Turkey - male with female turkeys in background


Turkey - male parading before female turkey


Turkeys - group of females


Turkeys - group outside shelter in field


Turkey - male parading with spread tail


Turkey - female close-up


Turkey - male


Turkey - male in foreground with two female turkeys in background


Spindle tree berries


Spindle Tree - berries


Spectacles Sheep - lamb, close-up of the head


Tractor - cutting roadside grass verge


Sheep 'Voskop' - group in meadow


Sheep 'Voskop' - group in meadow


Redpoll - on branch with fungi


Raspberry - leaf and fruit


Nestbox - in tree for Tawny Owl


Nestboxes for gardenbirds


Nestboxes - two different types in studio


Bat - nestbox


Molehills - in meadow


Molehills - in meadow


Little Owl - with casted / banadaged leg in human hand


Jackdaw - on cow's back with beak full of cowhair to use as nest material


Jackdaw - group on back of cow picking cowhair for nest material


Holly with berries


Holly with berries


Holly - in blossom


Holly - in blossom


Holly with berries close-up


Holly - with berries


Hedgehog - being hand reared, drinking milk from a bottle / pipette


Hedgehogs - newborn, in person's hand


Hazel Tree


Greenfinch - male on branch


Flemish Geese - two


Great Tit - leaving nestbox


Great Tit - entering nestbox and feeding begging chicks


Great Tit - entering nestbox and feeding caterpillar to begging chicks


Great tit - entering nestbox with food for chicks


Golden Retriever - with rucksack


Golden Retriever - carrying a rucksack, walking with owner


Brown Goat - eating grass in farmyard


Goats - adult & kids in field


White Goat - with two kids in orchard


Brown Goat - kid at fence in garden


White goat - in garden


Goat in orchard


White Goat


Goat - in meadow


Goat - close-up head in meadow


Goats - three playing in farmyard


Goats - three kids with two girls playing in yard


Goat - looking through fence


Draught Horse - pulling trees in wood with man


Draught Horse - pulling tree from wood with man


Goat - eating grass in sun


Goat - in farmyard with chickens


Goats - two with heads stuck though net fence


Draughthorse - with farmer haymaking


Draughthorse - with man working in wood pulling tree


Draught Horse - with man working in woods


Police dog training with Alsatian - stopping a person who defends himself with a stick


Police dog training with Alsatian - stopping a person who defends himself with a stick


Deadly nightshade shrub with berry in close-up


Deadly nightshade with berries


Cows - herd in meadow on edge of water


Chicken - Malines cuckoo


Chicken - two Malines cuckoo in grass


Rooster crowing on fence


Domestic cock crowing on fence


Children - feeding chicken and rabbit in barn with red cartwheel and straw


Chicken in grass


Chicken in grass


Chickens - two in grass


Chicken - two chicks balancing on fence


Chicken - two chicks balancing on fence


Chicken - black with black & yellow chicks in grass


Chicken - colourful cockerel crowing on fence in garden


Chicken - Malines cuckoo on fence


Common Quail in nestbox


Bearded Antwerp Bantam - Cock


Golden Retriever - aid dog assisting in supermarket


Golden Retriever - aid dog assisting owner in wheelchair at supermarket


Golden Retriever - aid dog assisting owner in wheelchair at supermarket


Golden Retriever - aid dog assisting in supermarket


Golden Retriever - aid dog assisting owner in wheelchair at supermarket


Golden Retriever - aid dog carrying a slipper in mouth


Golden Retriever - aid dog carrying a cell phone in mouth


Labrador - as aid dog opening a door by tugging on rope


Sweet / Spanish Chestnut - close-up of young bud


Sweet / Spanish chestnut - with young husks


Sweet / Spanish Chestnut - husks on tree


Sweet / Spanish Chestnut - husks on tree


Sweet / Spanish Chestnut - fruit and husks


Bullfinch - male sitting on garden fingerpost


Bullfinch - male on branch with fungi


Blue tit - chick in pine tree


Blue tit - three chicks in pine tree


Blue Tit - two chicks in pine tree


Blue tit - chick on human finger


Belgian bantam - on nest


Domestic Livestock - couple with male goats in meadow


Vultures spiralling high on thermals


Women collecting shellfish from estuary at low tide


Bag of cockles and bucket of mussels


Seriola dumerelli


Pollack - a member of the cod family


Pollack - a member of the cod family


Head of Pollack, a member of the cod family


Large shoal of mullet feeding at effluent outlet in harbour


Clown fish (Amphiprion ocellaris) swimming in Magnificent anemone


Trigger fish


Dog - Schnauzer puppy wearing a scarf.


Fischer's Lovebird - in flight, time-lapse


Chicken - chick recently hatched from egg


Carrion Crow


Carrion Crow


Black Phantom Tetra - group in tank


Lionhead Goldfish


Lionhead Fish


Great Blue Heron - in flight


Great Blue Heron - closeup of head through leaves


Ringbilled gull - in flight against wind


Ringbilled gull - in flight against wind


Ringbilled gull - in flight against wind


Ringbilled gull - in flight against wind


Ringbilled Gull - in flight against wind


Robin - in apple blossom


Robin


Early Purple Orchids - growing on a Norfolk roadside verge


Early Purple Orchids - with Primroses growing on a Norfolk roadside verge


Water drop on blue feather


Water drop on green feather


Wood Pigeon - foot of dead bird showing claws


Wood Pigeon - wing of dead bird showing feather arrangement


Wood Pigeon - wing of dead bird showing feather arrangement


Wood Pigeon - wing of dead bird showing feather arrangement


Sunrise - through trees on edge of broad


Ginger Cat - with young rat prey


Common Darter


Golden Retreiver - on beach


Golden Retreiver - on beach


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Golden Retreiver - on beach


Golden Retreiver - sitting in sand dunes


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Canada Goose - taking flight


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Greylag Goose - taking flight in misty sunrise


Greylag Goose - taking flight in misty sunrise


Greylag Geese - group in flight at dusk


Sunset Clouds


Sunset Clouds


Sunset Clouds


Grey Seal - bull resting on beach


Grey Seal - bull resting on beach


Grey Seal - bull resting on beach


Grey Seal - bull resting and yawning on beach


Grey Seal - pup on beach


Grey Seal - pup on beach with mouth open


Grey Seal - pup on beach


Sunset Clouds


Sunset Clouds


Greylag Geese - group in flight at dusk


Seagull - in flight at sunset


Greylag Geese - group in flight at sunset


Grey Seal - cow swimming close to beach


Grey Seal - close up of flipper


Grey Seal - pup on beach


Grey Seal - pup on beach


Grey Seal - cow in agressive posture


Grey Seal - pup on beach


Greylag Geese - group in flight at sunset


Greylag Geese - group in flight at dusk


Greylag Geese - group in flight at sunset


Peacock Butterfly - on buddleia


Peacock Butterfly - on buddleia


Tree Wasp - studio shot of head on plain background


Tree Wasp - studio shot of head on plain background


Tree Wasp - studio shot of head on plain background


Kestral - juvenile on larch tree bough


Rabbit - sitting on lawn


Rabbit - sitting on lawn


Rabbit - sitting on lawn


Rabbit - sitting on lawn and washing face


Rabbit - sitting on lawn


Rabbit - sitting on lawn in shaft of sunlight


Rabbit - sitting on lawn


Rabbit - sitting on lawn


Hover Fly - on marguerite daisy


Hover Fly - on marguerite daisy


Small Magpie Moth


Poplar Hawk-moth


Poplar Hawk-moth


Poplar Hawk-Moth


Hover Fly - approaching opium poppy


Hover Fly - on opium poppy


Hover Fly - on opium poppy


Looper (Geometrid) Caterpillar - showing looping method of locomotion


Looper (Geometrid) Caterpillar - in 'twig' posture


Horse Fly (female) - showing banded eyes


Horse Fly (female) - showing banded eyes


Horse Fly (female) - showing banded eyes


Horse Fly (female) - showing banded eyes


Common Frog - sitting on stone in pond


Common Frog - sitting on leaf


Common Frog - sitting on leaf


Common Frog - sitting on leaf


Common Frog - sitting on leaf


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Sunrise - over misty reedbeds and broad


Mute Swan - on calm water at sunrise


Mute Swan - on calm water at sunrise


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Sunrise - over misty reedbeds and broad


Canada Goose - on calm misty water at sunrise


Greylag Geese - at sunrise on misty water


Greylag Geese - at sunrise on misty water


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Grey Heron - taking flight over reedbeds


Ginger Cat stalking prey in cereal field


Greylag Goose - taking flight at sunrise


Mute Swan - on calm water at sunrise


Greylag Goose - taking flight


Greylag Goose - taking flight at sunrise


Greylag Geese - flock in flight against dramatic sunset sky


Grey Seal - pup on beach


Greylag Geese - group in flight at sunset


Dog Rose - flower


Beech Trees - at lakeside on frosty winter morning


Winter sunset


Sheep - flock on lakeside pasture


Field of wheat, ripening


Cracked tidal mud


Beech Trees - young emergent leaves


Misty sunrise, over Hickling Broad


Whistling Kite - sunbathing


Restless Flycatcher


Spangled Drongo


Plumed Whistling Ducks


Plumed Whistling Ducks


Little Black Cormorant - perched on a pipe crossing the stream


Lesser Sand Plover / Lesser Sandplover / Mongolian Dotterel - in winter plumage


Leaden Flycatcher - female building nest


Leaden Flycatcher - female building nest


Leaden Flycatcher - female at nest


Fan Palm flower


Dollarbird - a breeding visitor to Australia arriving September/October and departing March/April.


Brown Goshawk


Brolgas - a family party


Brolgas - this male was stretched up tall emphasising size disparity between male and female


Whimbrel


Terek Sandpiper - in winter plumage


Red-necked Stint - in winter plumage


Red-necked Avocets / Australian Avocet


Pied Cormorant


Migratory waders - large flock in flight


Migratory waders - large flock in flight


Migratory wader - flock in flight


Grey-tailed Tattler - probing in mud, winter-plumaged bird


Grey-tailed Tattler - a winter-plumaged bird


Grey-tailed Tattler - head scratching a winter-plumaged bird


Grey-tailed Tattler - flock - winter-plumaged birds


Grey-tailed Tattler and Terek Sandpiper (Tringa (Xenus) cinereus)


Gould's Goanna


Gould's Goanna


Whistling Kite - calling


Termites adding to a mound


Termites adding to a mound


Tawny Frogmouth - in camouflage pose


Tawny Frogmouth - among jumble of branches


Sulphur-crested Cockatoo


Sulphur-crested Cockatoo


Sulphur-crested Cockatoo


Rainbow Pitta - displaying


Rainbow Bee-eater - flying to nest


Rainbow Bee-eater - flying to nest


Rainbow Bee-eater - feeding chick


Rainbow Bee-eater - at nest


Partridge Pigeon


Crimson Finch


Crimson Finch - gathering grass for a nest


Crested Pigeon nest


Bush Stone-curlew


Bar-breasted Honeyeater - removing dropping


Azure Kingfisher


White-bellied Sea-eagle


Sooty Oystercatcher - an uncommon marine species favouring undisturbed areas with rocks and wave-cut platforms


Greater Sandplover / Greater Sand Plover - in flight


Greater Sandplover / Greater Sand Plover - with surf


Great Knot - in winter plumage facing a strong wind


Glossy Ibis - at a flooded grassy area


Glossy Ibis - at a flooded grassy area


Glossy Ibis - at a flooded grassy area


Eastern Curlews


Eastern Curlews


Curlew Sandpipers - in winter plumage


Curlew Sandpiper - leg-flagged in winter plumage


Common Sandpiper - wing stretching


Brahminy Kite - flying


Black-necked Stork / Jabiru - with prey


Black-necked Stork / Jabiru - gulping down prey


Black-necked Stork / Jabiru - catching prey


Black-necked Stork / Jabiru - catching a crab


Beach Stone-curlew / Beach Thick-knee.


Torresian Crow - beak wet from drinking


Singing Honeyeater - wet from bathing


Rufous-throated Honeyeater - perched at dawn


Masked Finch - near a drying pool .


Long-tailed Finches - feeding on the ground


Long-tailed Finches - drinking at a drying pool


Long-tailed Finch flock - coming to drink at a tiny drying pool


Long-tailed Finch - drinking at an overflowing cattle trough


Long-tailed Finch - drinking


Little Friarbird - drinking


King Brown / Mulga Snake - at a waterhole where it was searching for frogs.


Hooded Robin - male


Diamond Dove - drinking


Crimson Finch - female in pandanus


Black Grasswrens - male and female


Black Grasswren - bounds from rock to rock disappearing through crevices beneath giant boulders reappearing farther on as they move through their territory


Australian Bustard - Found throughout Australia except for the southeast. Reasonably common in open woodlands and grasslands particularly away from aboriginal settlements.


Puggle Dog - a crossbreed between a Beagle & a Pug, puppy


Chorkie Dog - crossbreed between Yorkshire Terrier and a Chihuahua


Peagle Dog - a crossbreed between a Pekingese and a Beagle


Peagle Dog - a crossbreed between a Pekingese and a Beagle


Labradoodle - crossbreed between a Labrador & a Poodle


Boggle Dog - crossbreed between a Boston Terrier and a Beagle


Boggle Dog - crossbreed between a Boston Terrier and a Beagle


Puggle Dog - a crossbreed between a Beagle & a Pug


Labradoodle - crossbreed between a Labrador & Poodle, sitting


Cockapoo Dog - cross between a Cocker Spaniel & a Poodle


Cockapoo Dog - crossbreed between a Cocker Spaniel & a Poodle


Shetland Pony - foal


Shetland Pony - foal running


Shetland Pony - mare and foal amongst marsh marigolds


Shetland Pony - mare and foal amongst marsh marigolds


Shetland Pony - foal


Shetland Pony - foal


Shetland Pony - grazing


Shetland Pony - foal grazing on seaweed


Shetland Pony - grazing on seaweed


Shetland Pony - on shore amongst seaweed


Shetland Pony - herd on shoreline


Shetland Pony - on beach


Shetland Pony - grazing


Shetland Pony


Shetland Pony - stallion trotting


Shetland Pony - grazing


Shetland Pony


Shetland Pony - mare and foal


Peat Working and Cotton Grass with coast beyond


Funzie Bay with derelict croft


Page: 1  
Photo Captions Page 1  Photo Captions Page 2  Photo Captions Page 3  Photo Captions Page 4  Photo Captions Page 5  Photo Captions Page 6  Photo Captions Page 7  Photo Captions Page 8  Photo Captions Page 9  Photo Captions Page 10  

ARDEA HOME   |   FIND PHOTOS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS   |   FIND PHOTOS BY KEYWORD   |   FIND PHOTOS BY CAPTION   |   LINKS   |   ARDEA WEBSITE LINKS