BBC Wildlife - UK 2020-07)

July 2020 BBC Wildlife 93

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OURWILD WORLD

1 Spinningaround

Onspottingthiswhite-

throatedkingfisher

perchedona deadtreein

SultanpurNationalPark,

India,I movedaroundthe

treetotakea photoand

noticedthespiderweb–

a symboloftheweboflife.

AnushehHussain

Delhi, India

2 Lastchancetosee

In2018,whileteaching

wildlifephotographyin

SouthAfrica,I came

acrossthesewhiterhinos.

Theyallowedusto

photographthemfor

aboutfiveminutes.Sadly,

twoweekslater,onewas

poached– makingmy

photooneofitslast.

SophieBrown,

Maidenhead

3 Urbanliving

Thissalamanderwas

foundina culvertina

residentialneighborhood

inLexington,Kentucky

USA.I useda wide-angle

macrolenstogeta shot

ofthisstunninganimalin

itsurbanenvironment.

BryceWade,

Kentucky, USA

4 Mygreatestegret

Greategretsarenot

uncommonvisitorsto

thesaltmarshsinSuolk

County,USA.I spotted

thisonewhileoutwalking.

Later,thebirdflewoand

landedina waterbody to

lookforprey.

SubhamSengupta

Kolkata, India

5 Curiousnature

I tookthisphotoduring

mytimeasa volunteer

withtheBorneo

OrangutanSurvival

Foundation.Deepinthe

rainforest,densefoliage

andlowlightingcanmake

it nearimpossibletofind

a clearshot.Luckily

mysubject’scuriosity

allowedmetocapture

thisimage.

Jack Lammas, London