Wildlife photography isn’t all about attention-grabbing species, writes Rob Read

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

The rise and rise of raptor species has been a major success of the past half century, but it may well have been the downfall of the common kestrel

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round One, Black & White, with comments by the AP team and our guest judges