The Snowy Sheathbill and the Southern Elephant Seal Elephant seal breeding and pupping season on the beaches of Sea Lion Island is a mix of tense calm interspersed with exceptional violence as the beachmasters are challenged for their harems by potenti...

The Snowy Sheathbill and the Southern Elephant Seal
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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Love in the Falklands…southern sea lions getting it on in the middle of Stanley

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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Scratching the itch…King penguin on Yorke Bay in the Falklands

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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Arctic tern on Inner Farne, Northumberland, UK

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The Snowy Sheathbill and the Southern Elephant Seal Elephant seal breeding and pupping season on the beaches of Sea Lion Island is a mix of tense calm interspersed with exceptional violence as the beachmasters are challenged for their harems by potenti...

The Sheathbill and the Elephant Seal
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Elephant seal breeding season on Sea Lion Island can be violent as beachmasters are challenged. Blubber waves crash down their bodies with each impact. The fights result in bloody wounds attracting snowy sheathbills.

Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Imperial shag at the Settlement Rookery on New Island in the Falklands

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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Puffin night I: Taken on the Isle of Lunga, off the coast of Mull, Scotland

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Rock kestrel at Plettenberg Bay, South Africa Imperial shag with chicks, taken on New Island in the Falklands #birdsofprey #birds #kestrels #southafrica #plettenbergbay #rspb #rockkestrel #southatlantic #nature #wildlife

Imperial shag fighting over nesting materials, taken on New Island in the Falklands #newisland #birds #seabirds #falklandislands #imperialshag #rspb #breedingseason #southatlantic #settlementrookery #nature #wildlife

Imperial shag with chicks, taken on New Island in the Falklands #newisland #birds #seabirds #falklandislands #imperialshag #rspb #breedingseason #southatlantic #settlementrookery #nature #wildlife

Black winged stilt on the nest in the grounds of the Suryagarh Hotel, near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India #birds #wildife #waders #wadingbirds #rajasthan #india #blackwingedstilt #nature #wildlife

Love in the age of millipedes. Taken at Niah National Park, Borneo #borneo #millipedes #invertebrates #niahnationalpark #rainforest #entanglement #mating #malaysia

Black-crowned night heron on Pebble Island in the Falklands #herons #birds #coastalbirds #nightheron #pebbleisland #falklandislands #southatlantic #blackcrownednightheron #nature #wildlife

Brown noddys on Egg Island off the coast of St Helena Island in the South Atlantic #birds #seabirds #terns #noddys #eggisland #sthelenaisland #nature #wildlife

Portrait of a gannet at RSPB Bempton Cliffs Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire #gannet #birds #seabirds #wildlife #nature #rspb #eastyorkshire #rspbbemptoncliffs

2026 Winners — British Wildlife Photography Awards

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got a photo placed in the Botannical Britain Category

Thanks Janet, yes - they only have two ways of getting away from perceived threats - run or swim. I never saw one of the flying ones, or at least I never saw one of them fly.

Thanks Bob

Black-crowned night heron on Pebble Island in the Falklands #birds #nightherons #blackcrownednightheron #pebbleislad #falklands #wildlife'nature #southatlantic

Siskin in woodland along the Solway Firth, Scotland #birds #finches #siskin #yellow #passerines #scotland #solwayfirth #nature #wildlife #rspb

Thanks Jo. And after I posted it I noticed the location wasn’t set. once I did that the lunacy disappearEd

A very interesting Merlin bird list for Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, UK

A member of a film crew among a harem of southern elephant seals on Sea Lion Island in the Falklands #marinemammals #elephantseals #falklandislands #sealionisland #pinnipeds #seals #nature #wildlife #southatlantic #peopleandnature #naturalhistoryfilms #wildlifefilmmakers

A marching Falklands steamer duck on the main beach at Sea Lion Island in the Falklands
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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Black browed albatross and chick on New Island in the Falklands

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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Falkland Islands fur seal at Cape Pembroke, near Stanley

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Dave Higgins (@mckeedi) Variable hawk feeding on a king penguin at Volunteer Point in the Falklands

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Close ups of a humpback whale of Brisbane, Australia #marinemammals #cetaceans #australias #brisbane #humpbackwhale #whales #nature #wildlife #marinemegafauna

A beachmaster southern elephant seal relaxing in-between defending the harem on Sea Lion Island in the Falklands #marinemammals #elephantseals #falklandislands #sealionisland #pinnipeds #seals #nature #wildlife #southatlantic #marinemegafauna #newlife #matingseason #spring #southerneelephantseal

Puffin landing on Inner Farne in the Farne Islands, Northumberland #birds #puffin #puffins #farneislands #seabirds #nationaltrust #bbcearth #bbcwildlife #rspb #coastalbirds #auks #wildlife #nature