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Check out this year's best wildlife photographers

The winners of this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards have been announced.

The competition is put together by the Natural History Museum, in London.

Lots of different people sent in their finest work - let's look through some of the winning pictures.

bird sitting on a fence, with chains next to it.Alberto Román Gómez / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Alberto Román Gómez is the winner in the under 10s category. He titled this picture 'Free as a Bird'.

He took the picture of the stonechat bird from the window of his dad's car.

tiny bug on wood.Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This picture is called Life Under Dead Wood, and it was taken by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas. He won the 15-17 years category. It shows a springtail - a tiny creature that's only two millimetres long

a lynx stretching on a snowy hill.Igor Metelskiy / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This picture was taken after a whopping six months of work surveying the locations of lynx. This one - having a stretch on a hill - was found in Russia

lynx looking at camera.John Marriott / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

And on to another lynx - several if you can spot them - this was the winner of the animal portraits category. John was trekking through the snow for several days, following this family of lynx to try and get this picture

falcon, talons open, following a butterfly.Jack Zhi / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Jack Zhi won the birds category for this picture of a young falcon chasing after a butterfly

Crow sitting on a branch, picture taken in a painted style, with lots of lines coming out from each branch.Jiří Hřebíček / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Jiří Hřebíček won in the artistic category by shaking his camera deliberately to take this interesting picture of a carrion crow. He called it 'The Artful Crow'

tiger on a hillside with a town in the background.Robin Darius Conz / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This picture was taken by Robin Darius Conz, from Germany, and he called it 'Tiger in Town'. Robin was working with a documentary team in India when he took the photo

tadpoles swimming under lilypads.Shane Gross / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Shane Gross won the Wetlands: The Bigger Picture category for this picture of tadpoles swimming under a layer of lilypads. He snorkelled through a lake for hours before finding the perfect place to photograph the tadpoles

pink dolphin swimming through rainforest wetlands.Thomas Peshank / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

This fascinating picture shows an Amazon river dolphin - which is one of two species of freshwater dolphins living in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. The dolphin is pink, and has evolved to explore the flooded habitats in the rainforest basins