Reddish Egret. In Fort De Soto Park in Tierra Verde, Florida, a reddish egret catches a fish at sunset. #

Common Raven. In Mount Seymour Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada, a pair of ravens groom and interact with each other during their courtship time. #

American White Pelican. A flock of white pelicans swim together in Lake Saint Joseph in Newellton, Louisiana. #

Snowy Owl. A snowy owl perches in New York City's Central Park in the winter of 2021. #

Song Sparrow. A song sparrow stands on grass, silhouetted by the headlight of a passing car, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. #

Canada Goose. A Canada goose emerges from a dip in Shoreline Lake in Mountain View, California. #

Great Gray Owl. A large owl perches on trees covered in hoarfrost, as it hunts near Bemidji, Minnesota. #

American Flamingo. A male flamingo named Rhett courts another flamingo in the Key West Butterfly & Nature Conservatory, in Key West, Florida. #

Bald Eagle. A bald eagle flies, carrying the remains of a dead gull, near Bow, Washington. #

Sandhill Crane. Cranes feed at sunset in the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, during their annual migration. #

Green Jay. An elusive green jay perches on a branch in Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge near Los Fresnos, Texas #

Black Skimmers. A flock of black skimmers huddle together on a beach on Marco Island, Florida. #

Sandhill Crane. An adult crane offers a tiny damselfly to one of its offspring in Kensington Metropark in Milford, Michigan. #

Western Screech-Owl. An owl peers out from a cavity in a tree in Palo Alto, California. #

Brown Pelican. A juvenile pelican hunts for fish at sunrise in Saint Petersburg, Florida. #

Red-Breasted Nuthatch. A nuthatch forages among the pine cones of a Douglas fir at Salmon Point on Vancouver Island, Canada. #

Clark’s Grebe. A pair of courting grebes rush along the surface of Santa Margarita Lake in Santa Margarita, California. #

Pacific Golden-Plover. A plover rests in sand near a parking lot at Poipu Beach Park in Kauaʻi, Hawai’i. #

Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. A female hummingbird feeds on sage in Carborro, North Carolina, its head dusted with pollen. #

Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron. A heron preens among mangroves in Sarasota, Florida. #

American Avocet. An avocet rides the waves in the Bolivar Flats Audubon Shorebird Sanctuary in Texas. #

Sandhill Crane. One of a family of cranes at play, observed in Vero Beach, Florida. #

Short-Eared Owl. An owl flies while hunting above a Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. #

Greater Flamingo. A pair of flamingos interact in Amboseli National Park in Kajiado County, Kenya. #

Superb Starling. A starling takes off from an acacia tree in Serengeti National Park in Arusha, Tanzania. #

Mute Swan. The mud-covered face of a swan that had been feeding in Chicago’s Lincoln Park North Pond. #

Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher and Peregrine Falcon. A gnatcatcher harasses a juvenile peregrine falcon at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, in Cleveland, Ohio. #

Green Heron. A heron hunts for food in Salem Pond Park, in Apex, North Carolina. #