A young stork sits on its nest waiting to be fed.

Alfie White waits on the shingle beach as his father returns in his trawler from an all night fishing trip.

Alfie White waits on the shingle beach as his father returns in his trawler from an all night fishing trip.

A bird of prey flies over the Irpin River floodplain. The cause of the current flooding is not clear with speculation that it was either an Ukrainian attempt to block Russian military access routes to...

A man hunting in the forest. Hunting is common: two species of wild boar (wanta, watusa), different kinds of birds. More rarely: the tapir, which is in danger of extinction, some monkeys, the armadill...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

Whooping Crane (Grus americana). Conservation status: endangered. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct.

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)., FMNH 39502. Conservation status: extinct. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)., FMNH 39502. Conservation status: extinct. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: critically endangered. There is very little remaining habitat to search and any remaining popula...

Dusky Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus nigrescens) (top)Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Dusky Seaside Sparrow conservation s...

Rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: vulnerable. E. carolinus ranges widely across the boreal zone of North America from New England, th...

A workspace in the Birds Division of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. Clockwise from upper left: a bird nest, bird skeleton, unidentified parrot and specimen storage boxes.

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Owl parrot / Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: critically endangered. The kakapo is the only flightless parrot in the world. It is also the...

Owl parrot / Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: critically endangered. The kakapo is the only flightless parrot in the world. It is also the...

Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: critically endangered. Once one of the most numerous of shorebirds, it has been over 40 years since th...

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinnati Zoo. It...

Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinnati Zoo. It...

Left to right: Camiguin Hanging-Parrot (Loriculus camiguinensis) and Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhyncus hyacinthinus). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status of macaw: endangered. Cam...

Grand Cayman Thrush (Turdus ravidus), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. No. 20402. Conservation status: extinct.

The Grand Cayman thrush was once endemic to the island of Grand Cayma...

Atitlan Grebe (Podilymbus gigas), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. No. 97557. Conservation status: extinct.

The Atitlan grebe, also known as the poc, was a large, flightless water b...

Atitlan Grebe (Podilymbus gigas), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. No. 97557. Conservation status: extinct.

The Atitlan grebe, also known as the poc, was a large, flightless water b...

Cuban Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis bairdii), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. No. 41820. Conservation status: extinct.

Originally described as a subspecies of th...

A tray of Passenger Pigeon skins, with other specimens (Ectopistes migratorius), at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

Camiguin Hanging-Parrot (Loriculus camiguinensis). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. The specimens in this drawer, collected in the 1960s, are labelled Loriculus philippensis. However, field r...

Eggshells in the Birds Division of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

As biologists describe new species and add to our understanding of the interrelated nature of life on Earth...

Left to right: Gray-breasted Wood-Wren(Henicorhina leucophrys), White-breasted Wood-Wren (H. leucosticta tropaea), Bar-winged wood-wren (Henicorhina leucoptera). Field Museum of Natural History, Chica...

Peregrine falcon eggs from 1899 (Falco peregrinus anatum). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. FMNH catalogue no.6844. The Peregrine falcon was brought nearly to extinction in the mid 1960s, pri...

A drawer of extinct species in the birds collection of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus), FMNH 430570 and 390946; Eastern Screech-Owl (Otus asio), FMNH 379837. Peregrine conservation status: least concern. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) egg at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: extinct. On 14 September 1914, the last Passenger Pigeon died in a cage in Cincinn...

Rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus). Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. Conservation status: vulnerable.

A heron rests by the edge of a canal at sunrise.

A heron rests by the edge of a canal at sunrise.

Birds fly over the principal irrigation canal providing water to the crop fields around the Yaqui valley. Around October, when the land is dry, many local farmers apply fertilisers, irrigate with wate...

After returning to the dock in Paredon Colorado, Jose Antonio Salido (38, right) and his father, Jose Maria Salido (64, left), collect fish they've caught in Tobari Bay from their nets. According to S...

After returning to the dock in Paredon Colorado, Jose Antonio Salido (38, right) and his father, Jose Maria Salido (64, left), collect fish they've caught in Tobari Bay from their nets. According to S...

A girl with a pigeon on her head, in front of the Basilico San Marco on Piazza San Marco. The famous square is at the lowest point in Venice and is consequently flooded during Acqua Alta or 'high wate...

A waiter wearing Wellington (rubber) boots on a flooded cafe terrace in Piazza San Marco. The famous square is at the lowest point in Venice and is consequently flooded during Acqua Alta or 'high wate...

An Asian tourist photographed with a tablet, while feeding pigeons on Piazza San Marco. The famous square is at the lowest point in Venice and is consequently flooded during Acqua Alta or 'high water'...

Street photographer's at work, in front of the Basilico San Marco on Piazza San Marco.

Street photographer's booths in Piazza San Marco.

Seagulls fighting for scraps disgarded by fishermen.

A woman passes a shop selling caged songbirds.

A man carries live turkeys along a street.

The mural 'Birds' by Mateus Bailon (BR) in the Northern Quarter.

The Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol.

A pigeon and the Charles Bridge.

Foreign tourists take photos and feed the pigeons in front of the Ortakoy Mosque, with Istanbul's Asian shore in the background, during a nationwide weekend coronavirus curfew which didn't appear to a...

Foreign tourists take photos and feed the pigeons in front of the Ortakoy Mosque, with Istanbul's Asian shore in the background, during a nationwide weekend coronavirus curfew which didn't appear to a...

The Ortakoy Mosque, with Istanbul's Asian shore in the background, during a nationwide weekend coronavirus curfew which didn't apply to overseas visitors.

Mahmoud, a former Iraqi police officer from Baghdad, watching the birds fly around his rooftop, from his one room apartment in the Damascus suburb of Saida Zainab. He fled to Damascus, Syria, after be...

While Nadya (in seventies) feeds pigeons, Russian president Vladimir Putin Putin recognises the independence of Ukraine's rebel regions and orders troops to descend on eastern Ukraine for 'peacekeepin...

A woman photographing seagulls on a sunny day at the beach in New Pirs.

A waste dump near the village of Kultuk. The landfill is illegally located in the water protection zone in the immediate vicinity of Lake Baikal.

A seagul and two planes above the harbour of the Finish capital Helsinki.

A Hyacinth Macaw feeds in the company of a chicken and a piglet at the abandoned headquarters of the Santa Cruz farm, which was isolated by the permanent flooding of the Pantanal of Paiaguas. This flo...

A barn containing a flock of free range chickens.

A seagul is resting in front of Helsinki Cathedral in the Finish capital Helsinki.

A domesticated pelican is fed by fishmen after returning from the sea.

A domesticated pelican is fed by a fishman after returning from the sea.

Maria Angelita Quezada (84), a Kanari indigenous woman, feeding her chickens outside her home in the Tarqui community. She says: "I always defend the water because it is the most necessary resource fo...

People on the beach in the fishing port of Bakau.

Men are feeding pigeons at the garages.

Stuffed birds on a shelf at the National Herbarium of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The building was renovated under the FORETS project and the plant collection, which was in danger of being lost,...

A dog stands next to a refrigerator, a bag and a dead chicken, likely recovered belongings of a nearby resident, while, in the background, rescue personnel from the Coast Guard wait for a truck to rec...

In the aftermath of typhoon Rai, chickens, drowned during the flooding, are plucked prior to being butchered and eaten before they spoil.

A taxidermy eagle killing a rabbit on display in Kinloch Castle. Sir George Bullough's possessions still remain in the castle that he built in 1897. The castle has been closed during the pandemic and...

A telephone box looks over the bay at Kinloch, the only inhabited village on the island.

Children earn money by offering incense to ward off evil spirits.

After being released from the goose house, the geese stretch their wings.