A stunned Common Kingfisher rests after it lost consciousness after hitting a window of a house in the countryside near Warsaw. A few seconds later the bird flew away.
A Rothschild giraffe sticks its head through the door of the Giraffe Manor to be fed in Langata, some 5 kilometers outside of capital Nairobi, Kenya. The Giraffe Manor is a small hotel and a former residence of American conservationists Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville who found the Giraffe Center in 1979 in a bid to protect Rothschild giraffe, one of the most endangered giraffe subspecies.
The most-studied tornado in history enters a late, roping stage over Southeastern Wyoming on June 5, 2009. Scientists' research concludes on June 15, 2010.
