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The British Wildlife Photography Awards is an annual photographic competition. The competition features images of wild species and habitats taken in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.. The competition is followed by a national tour, displaying winning and commended photographs in regional galleries and venues. In 2010 a book of winning entries was published by AA Publishing...

4 years ago a man from South Africa saved a eagle owl that was injured. The owl stayed in the man's house for two months. An old cat made friend with the owl. After the bird was ok it left the house but regularly comes back to see the cat bringing her presents like mice and rats. Eagle owls The American (North and South America) horned owls and the Old World eagle-owls make up the genus Bubo, at least as traditionally described...

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs...

After Costa Rica became the new hub for drug trafficking the smugglers have added sea turtle eggs to their list. One turtle egg can cost from $100-$300 USD per egg. This market is also very profitable and much less dangerous. Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea) are marine reptiles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic. Distribution The superfamily Chelonioidea has a world-wide distribution; sea turtles can be found in all oceans except for the polar regions...

Finland has a strong tradition of nature photography which Markus Varesvuco wanted to follow. He was born in 1960 and got his Master of Science in Business Economics in 1987. With birding in its many forms as a hobby, he took his first bird notes at the age of 11, studied and observed birds at the age of 16 when it became his passion. He specialized in bird photography in his late 20’s and gradually became a full-time wildlife photography in 2005...

Whispering (Latin: vox parva) is an unvoiced mode of phonation in which the vocal cords do not vibrate normally but are instead adducted sufficiently to create audible turbulence (a 'hissing' quality) as the speaker exhales (or occasionally inhales) during speech. This is a somewhat greater adduction than that found in breathy voice. Articulation remains the same as in normal speech. In normal speech, the vocal cords alternate between states of voice and voicelessness...