December 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details December Species shown: Wolf / Gray wolf / Grey wolf (Canis lupus) Wolves occur across Europe, Asia and North America. Wolves are monogamous, mated pairs usually remaining together for life. The wolf’s basic social unit is the nuclear family consisting of a mated pair accompanied by their offspring. The gestation period lasts 62–75 days with…
November 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details November Species shown: Green monkey / Sabaeus monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus) Green monkeys live in West Africa, are highly social and usually live in groups with distinct social hierarchy. Green monkeys are known to heavily invest in their offspring, with mothers taking care of their young for about…
October 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details October Species shown: Green finch (Chloris chloris) This bird is widespread throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia. Greenfinches feed on a great variety of seeds, berries, fruit, buds, flowers and some arthropods. They forage in trees and bushes, and also on the ground. Green finches can show competitive foraging…
September 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details September Species shown: Agama / red-headed rock agama / rainbow agama (agama agama) This is a common reptile in a large number of countries in Africa, and has a drab brown colour during the early part of the dry season. Just before the rainy season begins females…
August 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details August Species shown: Swallowtail butterfly (caterpillar) (Papilio machaon) This is the caterpillar of the Swallowtail butterfly, also called Old World swallowtail or Common yellow swallowtail. It occurs in Asia, Europe and North America. The photo is the result of focus stacking 10 photos taken with Canon R5…
July 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details July Species shown: Large emerald moth (Geometra papilionaria) The large emerald is a moth that has the shape of a butterfly, as the latin name indicates. It occurs in Europe, Asia and northern Africa. The photo was taken with Canon 1DX and Sigma 150mm f/2.8 at f/14,…
June 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details June Species shown: Common blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) Common blues are among the most beautiful butterflies, upper parts of the males are bright blue, upper parts of the females are brown with blue at the center, but they are especially beautiful underneath. What also makes them photogenic…
May 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details May Species shown: ruff (calidris pugnax) Rufs breed in northern Europe and Asia, outside of the breeding seaon they occur in southern Europe, southern Asia and Africa. This photo was taken in the Netherlands and shows a male in breeding plumage and a female. Although they no…
April 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details April Species shown: black-tailed godwit (limosa limosa) Like many species of birds, black-tailed godwits are keen to defend their territory. These two male birds were fighting for 1 hour and 40 minutes! The photo was taken on farmland that was irrigated to create local wet spots to…
March 2025 Photo Information Animal and Camera Details March Species shown: European Hare (Lepus europaeus) This photo was taken in the Netherlands in a pasture nature reserve. The hare jumped over a ditch of at least 2.5m from standstill. Normally a shy animal, the European hare changes its behavior in spring, when it can be…