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Colony of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on snow-covered Cape Bird on Ross Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
Colony of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on snow-covered Cape Bird on Ross Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica
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Group of Alcid (Alcidae sp) in flight on the Hornoya colony in Varanger, Norway.
© Michael Adam / Biosphoto
© Michael Adam / Biosphoto
Group of Alcid (Alcidae sp) in flight on the Hornoya colony in Varanger, Norway.
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Colony of Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome), subspecies Southern R. Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome, during spring on
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Colony of Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome), subspecies Southern R. Eudyptes chrysocome chrysocome, during spring on Saunders Island. South America, Falkland Islands, October
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Corallites of Honeycomb Coral, (Diploastrea heliopora), classified as Near Threatened, Underwater Temple dive site, Pemuteran, Buleleng Regency,
© Colin Marshall / Biosphoto
© Colin Marshall / Biosphoto
Corallites of Honeycomb Coral, (Diploastrea heliopora), classified as Near Threatened, Underwater Temple dive site, Pemuteran, Buleleng Regency, Bali, Indonesia
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Fluorescent sea anemone and coral, small colony of anemones in the middle of another coral colony under UV rays showing off their magnificent
© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto
© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto
Fluorescent sea anemone and coral, small colony of anemones in the middle of another coral colony under UV rays showing off their magnificent fluorescence, Mayotte
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A colony of King Penguins (Aptenodyptes patagonica) on the black sand beach of Saint Andrews, South Georgia.
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
A colony of King Penguins (Aptenodyptes patagonica) on the black sand beach of Saint Andrews, South Georgia.
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Feeding of chicks. Imperial Shag also called King Shag, blue-eyed Shag,
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Feeding of chicks. Imperial Shag also called King Shag, blue-eyed Shag, blue-eyed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps or Leucarbo atriceps). South America, Falkland Islands, January
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Imperial Shag also called King Shag, King Cormorant, Blue eyed Shag(Phalacrocorax atriceps, Leucarbo atriceps) . South America, Falkland
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
© Martin Zwick / Biosphoto
Imperial Shag also called King Shag, King Cormorant, Blue eyed Shag(Phalacrocorax atriceps, Leucarbo atriceps) . South America, Falkland Islands, January
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Big colony of Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki) in their burrows on a clay wall. Africa. Uganda.
© Andrey Gudkov / Biosphoto
© Andrey Gudkov / Biosphoto
Big colony of Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki) in their burrows on a clay wall. Africa. Uganda.
© Óscar Díez Martínez / Biosphoto
Common murre in flight, Uria aalge. Hornoya, Norway
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Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) two adults fighting for a nest near Abbeville, Hauts de
© Marc Tisseau / Biosphoto
© Marc Tisseau / Biosphoto
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) two adults fighting for a nest near Abbeville, Hauts de France, France
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Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), flying in a group near their colony on the island of Noss in the Shetlands.
© Marc Tisseau / Biosphoto
© Marc Tisseau / Biosphoto
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), flying in a group near their colony on the island of Noss in the Shetlands.
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Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) in flight. Colony on Scoresbysund, Greenland, North East
© Pierre Vernay / Biosphoto
© Pierre Vernay / Biosphoto
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) in flight. Colony on Scoresbysund, Greenland, North East
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Social Spider (Theridion nigroannulatum) is one of the few species of social spider. The colony lives under leaves, where it waits for prey to catch
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
Social Spider (Theridion nigroannulatum) is one of the few species of social spider. The colony lives under leaves, where it waits for prey to catch in its son to throw on it en masse. Peru.
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Adults and young (brown down) King Penguins (Aptenodyptes patagonicus) in the colony of St. Andrews Bay in South Georgia
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
Adults and young (brown down) King Penguins (Aptenodyptes patagonicus) in the colony of St. Andrews Bay in South Georgia
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Interaction between an Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) and a King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) moulting, South Georgia
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
Interaction between an Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) and a King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) moulting, South Georgia
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Interaction between an Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) and a King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) moulting, South Georgia
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
© Raphaël Sané / Biosphoto
Interaction between an Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) and a King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) moulting, South Georgia
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Northern Gannets fly around the colony off the coast of Flamborough, UK.
© Tesni Ward / Biosphoto
© Tesni Ward / Biosphoto
Northern Gannets fly around the colony off the coast of Flamborough, UK.
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Pharaoh Ants (Monomorium pharaonis) feasting around a drop of honey on green leaf, piling on top of each others forming oval shape ring around a drop
© Husni Che Ngah / Biosphoto
© Husni Che Ngah / Biosphoto
Pharaoh Ants (Monomorium pharaonis) feasting around a drop of honey on green leaf, piling on top of each others forming oval shape ring around a drop honey.
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Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) Colony nesting, Saltee islands, Ireland. Finalist at Golden Turtle award 2018.
© Óscar Díez Martínez / Biosphoto
© Óscar Díez Martínez / Biosphoto
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) Colony nesting, Saltee islands, Ireland. Finalist at Golden Turtle award 2018.
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Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) Colony nesting, Saltee islands, Ireland
© Óscar Díez Martínez / Biosphoto
© Óscar Díez Martínez / Biosphoto
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) Colony nesting, Saltee islands, Ireland
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Colony of Peruvian pelicans (Pelecanus thagus) waiting to fish on the roof of a building facing the Pacific Ocean, Antofagasta, Chile
© Alberto Ghizzi Panizza / Biosphoto
© Alberto Ghizzi Panizza / Biosphoto
Colony of Peruvian pelicans (Pelecanus thagus) waiting to fish on the roof of a building facing the Pacific Ocean, Antofagasta, Chile
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The Honey Ants Dream. The honeypot ants' chambers can generally be found more than one meter deep. They are connected to one of the entrances to the
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
The Honey Ants Dream. The honeypot ants' chambers can generally be found more than one meter deep. They are connected to one of the entrances to the colony by a vertical tunnel that is dug out by the worker ants in very hard earth. Northern Territory, Australia
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Northern Gannet (Sula bassana) colony, Hermaness Unst, Shetland, Scotland, April
© David Tipling / Biosphoto
© David Tipling / Biosphoto
Northern Gannet (Sula bassana) colony, Hermaness Unst, Shetland, Scotland, April
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To try to defend the colony from this incessant predation, the bees fight back by forming a cluster on the flight board. They thus save a few
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
To try to defend the colony from this incessant predation, the bees fight back by forming a cluster on the flight board. They thus save a few foraging bees returning after gathering nectar and pollen from the flowers. France
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Children of the sun, a hive's activity is intense when the temperature rises above 15° Celsius and when the flowers
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - Children of the sun, a hive's activity is intense when the temperature rises above 15° Celsius and when the flowers produce an abundance of nectar. The nectar is secreted by the flowers to attract the insects who thus ensure the flowers' reproduction by transporting the pollen from the pistils to the stamens.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - A bee on the newly-built wax cells. We can see the different sizes of the cells for the males and for the others bees. The males' cells are a third bigger. Their width is 8.75mm and their depth 16-17mm as opposed to 6mm and 12mm for the worker bees' cells.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The coming and going of bees during a massive return to the hive. A bee transports 20 to 30 milligrams of nectar and
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - The coming and going of bees during a massive return to the hive. A bee transports 20 to 30 milligrams of nectar and carries out 3 to 10 flights per day during 10 to 20 days of activity. A hive has between 100,000 and 200,000 foraging bees and thus harvests between 60 kilos and 300 kilos of honey per year.
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the hive between two parallel honeycombs. The bees store the nectar in the wax cells and, fanning
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
© Eric Tourneret / Biosphoto
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) - In the hive between two parallel honeycombs. The bees store the nectar in the wax cells and, fanning it, transform it into honey by lowering the moisture level from 80% to 17%. The buccal exchange between bees, the trophallaxis, plays a role in the making of the honey through the addition of enzymes.
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Carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), in flight, breeding colony at the Sambezi river, Namibia
© Berndt Fischer / Biosphoto
© Berndt Fischer / Biosphoto
Carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides), in flight, breeding colony at the Sambezi river, Namibia
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Colony of Sea Goldies (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) near its coral head, Mayotte, Indian Ocean
© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto
© Gabriel Barathieu / Biosphoto
Colony of Sea Goldies (Pseudanthias squamipinnis) near its coral head, Mayotte, Indian Ocean
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Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps) Patagonia, Ria Deseado, Argentina South America. Description: This colony of shags keep its territory
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Imperial Shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps) Patagonia, Ria Deseado, Argentina South America. Description: This colony of shags keep its territory organized as a neighbourhood very tidy because of the strong Patagonian wind.
© Juan-Carlos Muñoz / Biosphoto
Flamingos, Salinas, Walvis Bay, Namibia, Africa
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Lesser flamingoes colony - Bogoria lake Kenya
© Michel & Christine Denis-Huot / Biosphoto
© Michel & Christine Denis-Huot / Biosphoto
Lesser flamingoes colony - Bogoria lake Kenya
© Michel & Christine Denis-Huot / Biosphoto
Lesser flamingoes colony - Magadi lake Kenya
© Régis Cavignaux / Biosphoto
Seagull in flight over a colony Little Auks - Greenland
© Michel Poinsignon / Biosphoto
Northern Gannets colony - Bass Rock Scotland UK
© Samuel Blanc / Biosphoto
Emperor Penguins chick on the legs of its parents
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Lesser Flamingos in flight - Lake Magadi Kenya
© Michel & Christine Denis-Huot / Biosphoto
© Michel & Christine Denis-Huot / Biosphoto
Lesser Flamingos in flight - Lake Magadi Kenya
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Sandwich Tern mobbing Lesser Black-backed Gull - Farne UK ; on edge of tern colony which was attempting to steal eggs
© David Tipling / Biosphoto
© David Tipling / Biosphoto
Sandwich Tern mobbing Lesser Black-backed Gull - Farne UK ; on edge of tern colony which was attempting to steal eggs
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
King penguins mating - Falkland Islands
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
Colony of King Shag - Falkland Islands
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
Nesting colony of King Penguins - Falkland Islands
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
Young Gentoo Penguin at nest - Falkland Islands
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Black-browded albatros mating game - Falklands Islands
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
Black-browded albatros mating game - Falklands Islands
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
Gentoo penguins and chick nesting - Falkland Islands
© Alain Mafart-Renodier / Biosphoto
Young King Penguin moulting and camera - Falklands
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Lesser Flamingoes flying over Lake Logipi Kenya ; Lake Logipi is a saline,alkaline lake on the northern end of the Suguta Valley
© Martin Harvey / Biosphoto
© Martin Harvey / Biosphoto
Lesser Flamingoes flying over Lake Logipi Kenya ; Lake Logipi is a saline,alkaline lake on the northern end of the Suguta Valley