Jon Dunn

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Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS. BSBI Shetland county recorder ‘Obscure rarity’ Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop www.jondunn.com

Snow Gentian (Gentiana nivalis) © Jon Dunn
Mount Cenis Bellflower (Campanula cenisia) © Jon Dunn
Silky Ringlet (Erebia gorge) © Jon Dunn
Peak White (Pontia callidice) © Jon Dunn
Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum) © Jon Dunn
Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum) © Jon Dunn
One-flowered Fleabane (Erigeron uniflora) © Jon Dunn
Dryad (Minois dryas) © Jon Dunn
Mating pair of Mountain Fritillary (Boloria napaea) © Jon Dunn
Austrian Alps, today's workplace © Jon Dunn
Female Mountain Fritillary (Boloria napaea) © Jon Dunn
Don't look down... cable car shadow passes high over trees on an Austrian mountainside © Jon Dunn
Dark Vanilla Orchid (Gymnadenia (syn. Nigritella) rhellicani © Jon Dunn
Mountain Clouded Yellow (Colias phicomone) © Jon Dunn
Black feral pigeon alighted on the bow of the Northlink ferry south of Lerwick, Shetland
A terrible photo of a Herring Gull, taken through a salt encrusted window at my Shetland home. She’s waiting patiently for whatever culinary disaster I had produced on that particular day. She ate everything. Her diet also included Starlings, which she was partial to chasing and catching midair.
Turquoise Blue (Polyommatus dorylas) © Jon Dunn
Apollo (Parnassius apollo) © Jon Dunn
Apollo (Parnassius apollo) © Jon Dunn
Spanish Pyrenees, village outskirts, Barn Swallow in flight
Cypripedium slipper orchids, Tromsø botanic garden © Jon Dunn
Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) ssp. polaris © Jon Dunn
Frigga's Fritillary (Boloria frigga) © Jon Dunn
Northern Clouded Yellow (Colias hecla) © Jon Dunn
Diapensia lapponica © Jon Dunn
Ophrys sipontensis © Jon Dunn
Ophrys rhodia hypochromic variation © Jon Dunn
Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula), Keen of Hamar, Unst, Shetland © Jon Dunn
Ophrys halia, Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn
Serpentine debris typical of the Keen of Hamar habitat on Unst, Shetland © Jon Dunn
Large Copper (Lycaena dispar), Butterflies of North Greece © Jon Dunn
Elder-flowered Orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) yellow form, French Pyrenees © Jon Dunn
Late Spider Orchid (Ophrys fuciflora) © Jon Dunn
Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) var. bicolor, Abruzzo © Jon Dunn
Marsh Fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia provincialis) © Jon Dunn
Ophrys apifera (Bee Orchid) x Ophrys dinarica hybrid, Abruzzo © Jon Dunn
Orchis pallens © Jon Dunn
Bagliettoa marmorea © Jon Dunn
Amanda's Blue (Polyommatus amandus) © Jon Dunn
Baton Blue (Pseudophilotes baton) © Jon Dunn
Italian Marbled White (Melanargia arge) © Jon Dunn
Ophrys bertolonii x dinarica © Jon Dunn
Ophrys appennina, Abruzzo © Jon Dunn
Sky Stone-crop (Sedum caeruleum), Sicily © Jon Dunn
Ophrys calliantha © Jon Dunn
Ophrys biancae x Ophrys lacaitae hybrid, Late Spring Orchids of Sicily © Jon Dunn
Ophrys bertolonii x Ophrys passionis © Jon Dunn
Mt Etna, on Sicily, with a bee in the foreground flying over the volcano
Ophrys lacaitae, Late Spring Orchids of Sicily © Jon Dunn
Ophrys pallida, Sicily © Jon Dunn
Ophrys grassoana, Sicily © Jon Dunn
Laphria aurea robberfly on Serapias carica orchid, Rhodes © Jon Dunn
Cover of Atlas of the Distribution and Taxonomy of the Odonata of Sicily (Natura Edizioni Scientifiche, 2025) by Andrea Corso et al
Ophrys apulica, Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula © Jon Dunn
Ophrys montis-gargani, Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula © Jon Dunn
Ophrys parvimaculata, Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula © Jon Dunn
Orchis x bivonae (hybrid Man Orchid (Orchis anthropophora) & Naked Man Orchid (Orchis italica)), Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula © Jon Dunn