An ornately coloured Bell Miner or Bellbird (Manorina melanophrys) prepares to take flight from among the branches of a dense Eucalyptus Tree.
A male Northern Pintail Duck spreads it’s wings and adjusts it’s feathers early in the morning on a pond in central Tokyo, Japan.
An impressive Great Egret (Ardea alba) stands on a long dead tree in a dried lake bed during the dry season in Udawalawe National Park of Sri Lanka, surveying the landscape for signs of water and potential feeding holes.
