Tits and alike
776 photos
The tits are small, acrobatic birds with a gregarious nature. The true tits (family Paridae) are generally similar in size and shape, with most having a short legs and a sturdy bill, which suits...
Nuthatches and Treecreepers
456 photos
The nuthatches constitute a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae. Characterised by large heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet, nuthatches advertise their...
Thrushes
285 photos
The Thrushes, family Turdidae, are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly but not exclusively in the Old World. They are plump, soft plumaged, small to medium sized insectivores or sometimes...
Sparrows, Finches and Buntings
814 photos
Sparrows are a family of small passerine birds, Passeridae. They are also known as true sparrows, or Old World sparrows, names also used for a particular genus of the family, Passer. Many species...
Kinglets and Wrens
16 photos
Europe's smallest birds!
Starlings
293 photos
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae.
Starlings have strong feet, their flight is strong and direct, and they are very gregarious. Their preferred habitat is...
Flycatchers, Redstarts and Chats
294 photos
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds mostly restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia). These are mainly small arboreal insectivores,...
Corvids
910 photos
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers. In common English, they are known as...
Woodpeckers
305 photos
Members of the family Picidae have strong bills for drilling and drumming on trees and long sticky tongues for extracting food. The bill's chisel-like tip is kept sharp by the pecking action in birds...
Warblers etc.
103 photos
Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the bird family Sylviidae. The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera, and were the source of much taxonomic...
Shrikes
29 photos
Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of thirty-one species in three genera. The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin...
Wagtails, larks and pipits
20 photos
Wagtails are slender, often colourful, ground-feeding insectivores of open country in the Old World. They are ground nesters, laying up to six speckled eggs at a time. Among their most conspicuous...
Swallows and swifts
4 photos
The swallows and martins, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents except Antarctica. Highly adapted to aerial feeding, they have a distinctive...
Owls and other birds of prey
87 photos
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision,...
Waterfowl
462 photos
Waterfowl are certain wildfowl of the order Anseriformes, especially members of the family Anatidae, which includes ducks, geese, and swans. Some definitions of the term 'waterfowl' include the...
Pigeons
186 photos
Pigeons and doves constitute the bird family Columbidae that includes about 310 species.
Pigeons are stout-bodied birds with short necks, and short, slender bills with fleshy ceres. They feed on...
Fowl
3 photos
The Galliformes are an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the...
Orioles
1 photo
Orioles are colourful Old World passerine birds in the genus Oriolus, the type genus of the corvoidean family Oriolidae.
Cuckoos
3 photos
The cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, Cuculiformes. This species is a widespread summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays...
Squirrels
2487 photos
Red. Furry. Beautiful.
Other rodents
1 photo
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of...
Hedgehogs
6 photos
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the order Erinaceomorpha. There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa...
Carnivorans
3 photos
Carnivorans have teeth and claws adapted for catching and eating other animals. Many hunt in packs and are social animals, giving them an advantage over larger prey. Some carnivorans, such as cats...
Ungulates
4 photos
Ungulates are any members of a diverse group of primarily large mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraffes,...
Reptiles and amphibians
8 photos
Insects
675 photos
Insects (from Latin insectum, a calque of Greek ἔντομον [éntomon], "cut into sections") are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton,...
Arachnids
50 photos
Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. Almost all adult arachnids have eight legs, although the front pair of legs in some...
Molluscs
209 photos
The molluscs or mollusks compose the large phylum of invertebrate animals known as the Mollusca. Molluscs are the largest marine phylum, comprising about 23% of all the named marine organisms....
Crustaceans
14 photos
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
Most crustaceans are...
Annelids
1 photo
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, “little ring”), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
Flowers
404 photos
Plants have some pretty ways to reproduce.
Fruits and seeds
121 photos
A bridge between a beauty of a flower and a new life of a seedling.
Galls
45 photos
Galls (from the Latin galla, 'oak-apple') or cecidia (from the Greek kēkidion, anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls...
Other plants
98 photos
Algae
1 photo
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades....
Fungi
232 photos
A fungus (plural: fungi) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are...
Slime molds
11 photos
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but can aggregate together to form multicellular...
Other nature
3 photos
Sky
3 photos
Moon. Clouds. Sun.
Wrocław by night
3 photos