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Photo by: Sergio Izquierdo  Montes Azules Natural Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico A scientist climbs a broken tree. Macaws use three cavities in Cantemó trees to nest. It’s important that biologists monitor the nests to make sure existing chicks are healthy and to take advantage of opportunities for an orphan chick to be placed into the nest for adoption by surrogate parent macaws.
Photo by: Xavi Bou  Catalonia, Spain One of the species I’ve worked with the most, due to the complexity of their flight, is the starling. After sunset, these birds usually gather to roost, whether in cities or wetlands, and in this case, a reed bed. When a falcon appeared at that moment, the starlings reacted with this hypnotic and extraordinarily complex flight that leaves no one unmoved.
Photo by: Suzi Eszterhas  Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda High in the Virunga Mountains, the park staff know the resident mountain gorillas by name. Wild but habituated to the presence of humans, my experience meeting Kabatwa and her twins, Isango Gakuru and Isango Gato, was one of the most magnificent moments of my career. I remember it was raining lightly that day. Kabatwa was holding the twins close to keep them warm. I felt like she could sense my reverence and fierce hope for her twins’ survival. They have since grown to become only the second known surviving pair of mountain gorilla twins.
Photo by: Heather Mattera  Wind-molded Ibex Dunes display classic s-shaped forms, revealing the interplay between wind regimes and sand grain size. Their evolving shapes serve as natural laboratories for understanding desert landform development and environmental change.
Photo by: David Doubilet  Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands I turned to see my partner Jennifer Hayes considering the bow of the former Russian Destroyer 356, renamed the MV Keith Tibbetts, looming above her. I managed a single frame before she swam onward. We really never get to see a ship’s massiveness unless it is in dry dock or on the bottom of the ocean, by accident or design like this sunken artificial reef.