Mating Indian Skimmers on the Chambal River in Uttar Pradesh, India (Image by Inger Vandyke)

It is hard to tell if Nazcas are being affectionate or squabbling... (Image by Mark Beaman)

An Ibisbill in flight (Image by Mike Watson)

Portrait of a Panther Chameleon (Image by Dani Velasco)

Black-browed Albatrosses nesting at West Point Island, the Falkland Islands (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A Little Cormorant sits and watches the sunset (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A Jaguar rests by the riverside in the Pantanal, unafraid of our presence (Image by Mike Watson)(

A Blakiston's Fish Owl, the largest owl in the world, with its fish dinner (Image by Pete Morris)

These Dalmatian Pelicans are showing the bright red bill pouches of breeding birds (Image by Attila Szilagyi)

A Tiger wanders down to a waterhole in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve in India (Image by Inger Vandyke)

Painted Stork in flight (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A Gemsbok oryx takes off into the grasslands of Sossusvlei. This image was taken on an aerial safari by helicopter from Sesriem. (Image by Inger Vandyke)

One of those damn Espanola Mockingbirds climbs on your head! (Image by Mark Beaman)

Driving across Lake Assale

The shy, fabled Snow Leopard (Image by Mike Watson)

A Brown Skua with his prized Gentoo Penguin egg (Image by Inger Vandyke)

When a Giant Otter crunches down a fish one can hear the noise from 50 metres! (Image by Mike Watson)

Japanese Macaques (Snow Monkeys) engaged in mutual grooming in Honshu, Japan (Image by Pete Morris)

Eurasian Hoopoe in flight. (Image by János Oláh)

Chukar Patridge (Image by Mike Watson)

Himba Head Man in remote Kaokoland, Namibia

Giant Lobelias near Chenek in the spectacular Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A line of Indian Wild Asses at sunset (Image by Mike Watson)

The dead Camelthorn trees of Deadvlei. Image by Inger Vandyke.

A young Blackbuck peers at a Black Drongo that has landed on its back (Image by Inger Vandyke)

It's Baloo! A Sloth Bear in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India (Image by Inger Vandyke)

Namibia features many different colours of sand dunes including the spectacular garnet sand dunes of Dorrob National Park near Swakopmund. Image by Inger Vandyke.

A herd of Siberian Ibex run up a mountainside in Ladakh (Image by Inger Vandyke)

Aba Mezgebe, the father of the church at Asheten Maryam near Lalibela, reveals one of his church's ancient bibles (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A Chinstrap Penguin has a scratch (Image by Inger Vandyke)

Burchell's Zebras are constantly bickering (Image by Mark Beaman)

The priests of Lalibela (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A herd of oryx runs across the grasslands of Sossusvlei at sunset (Image by Inger Vandyke)

A Lalibela priest reads his bible by the light shining through a crucifix shaped 'window' in a rock church (Image by Inger Vandyke)

Baja California sunsets are legendary (Image by Mark Beaman)

A pair of Steller's Sea Eagles go head to head in Hokkaido, Japan! (Image by Pete Morris)

Gelada Baboon males are magnificent creatures and you can, with care, approach them very closely in the Simien (Image by Inger Vandyke)

The beautiful Himba people of Kaokoland in Namibia. Image by Inger Vandyke.

Frigatebird at dawn (Image by Mark Beaman)

Little Auk in flight. Image by Mike Watson.

View from the crater rim of Erta Ale, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, into the active, red-glowing lava lake. Erta Ale is a continuously active basaltic shield volcano in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia, only some kilometers from the border with Eritrea

Sleeping Polar Bear with Ivory Gull. Image by Mike Watson.

A priest holding his crucifix at Lalibela in Ethiopia (Image by Inger Vandyke)