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A moorhen chick swims in a pond, Xingtai, China

African Openbills (Anastomus lamelligerus) gather on the bank of the Nile, Khartoum, Sudan

Bad hair day (Michael Erwin, Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Birds catch fish, Nea Kios, Nafplio, Greece

Birds fly along the coast in the Vadsø municipality of Norway

Birds flying, Lake Peñuelas protected reserve, Valparaiso, Chile

Birds on frozen pond, Bushy Park, London, England, UK

Birds take flight as the sun sets, Lhokseumawe, Indonesia

Black Skimmer With a Fish by Marie Read

Blue-footed Boobies (Sula nebouxii) with their chick in the Galapagos, Ecuador

Brown Booby and her chick next to a Redonda Ground Dragon, Redonda Island, Antigua and Barbuda, Leeward Islands, West Indies (Caribbean)

Canada loon at Falcon Lake Manitoba

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Common Coot (Fulica atra), with a loach (a small freshwater fish), in its mouth, scrambles across an icy surface in Northeast China, ‘Slip‘ by Zeyu

Common Goldeneyes (Bucephala clangula), Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA, Tom Koerner, 2016-01-12

Coot chick with its mother in a nest made of plastic litter debris on the River Thames in London, England, UK

Coot swims through duckweed covering the surface of Limehouse Basin marina, London, England, UK

Coot, Shuanggui Lake National Wetland Park, Liangping District, China

Cormorant has a lucky escape as it‘s nearly swallowed whole by a Pelican in a fight over a Trout, Sandy Woods Lake, Milpitas, California, USA

Curlew, Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland, UK

Diving Gannets hit the water off the Isle of Noss, Shetland, Scotland, UK

Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra) chick, Rottweil, Germany

Four seabirds on sand

Grey-headed swamphen (Porphyrio poliocephalus) in a swamp of Chupi Char lake, East Burdawan, West Bengal, India

Guillemots and other birds on the cliffs on the Farne Islands, Northumberland, England, UK

Huge flock of Spectacled Teals, Junam reservoir, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea

Large wading bird

Little Auk (Alle alle), Svalbard archipelago, Norway

Looking around (Robert J. Ross, Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards)

Migrant birds in the Momoge national nature reserve in Zhenlai County, China

Migratory Birds, Hokersar wetland, near Srinagar, Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir

Migratory birds fly at sunset over Hongze Lake wetland scenic area in Sihong County, China

Migratory birds flying over the Yalu River estuary wetland in Dandong, China

Migratory birds on a tree in a lake, Baghdad, Iraq

Moorhen among Snowdrops in St James‘s Park, London, England, UK

Moorhen and its chick swim in a pond covered in green algae in Cannizaro Park, London, England, UK

Moorhen by Krzys Stachera

Moorhen chick among lily pads in the Steglitzer Stadtpark in Berlin, Germany

Moorhen lands on the lake at Sefton Park, Liverpool, England, UK

Moorhen, Cannizaro Park, London, England

Moorhens on the lake at Sefton Park, Liverpool, England, UK

Nazca Booby (Sula granti) feeding its young on the cliffs of Wolf Island, Galápagos

Nesting Gannets at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, UK

Oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) flies over Baluran national park, Situbondo, East Java, Indonesia

Oystercatchers (Haematopus), Loch Leven National Nature Reserve, Kinross, Scotland, UK

Peruvian diving petrel (Pelecanoides garnotii), Chañaral Island, Humboldt Archipelago, Chile

Pied Avocets, Linhong River, Lianyungang, China

Razorbill Auk (Alca torda), St Kilda, Scotland, UK