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Alaska: Close Encounter with Bald Eagles | Benjamin Ergas | United States, Alaska, Chilkat Valley

The Chilkat Valley is the setting of an annual frenzy when up to 3,000 bald eagles pour in to feed on spawned-out salmon

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Bird Watchers' Paradise on the Solway Coast | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Southern Scotland, Dumfriesshire

In 1957, fewer than 1000 barnacle geese wintered here. This number has now swelled to over twenty thousand that fly to the Solway coast from Arctic Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, more than 3000 kilometres away

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Faclonry Experience Day | Jasper Winn | United Kingdom, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire

A Harris hawk - russet and black plumamge, dark brown eyes and strong yellow feet, its beak and talons the blue-steeled colour of surgical instruments - was launched into the air

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Hiking the Costa Rican Tropical Rain Forest | Benjamin Ergas

It is midday. The heat is sweltering, the humidity close to 90% and our T-shirts soaked. Pushing on through the foliage, eyes wide open, we observe, we listen.

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Kakadu v Litchfield: Australia's National Parks | Andrew Bain | Australia, Northern Territories, Kakadu National Park

The two most popular national parks of Australia’s Top End have become unwitting sparring partners, played one against the other for tourist favour

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The Coolest Beauty Contest in the World | AA Gill | Iceland, Reykjavik, Reykjavik

I was sitting in a café in downtown Reykjavik and a woman I had just met gave me an odd look and said hesitantly, “You wouldn’t like to be a judge for Miss Iceland, would you, by any chance?”

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Top Beaches of Western Crete | Christopher Deliso | Greece, Crete, Crete

It’s not completely unknown here to find Belgian snorkelers cursing while extracting needles from their fingers, after a long day of ripping out purple sea urchins from the rocks

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Why Birdies are not Like Others | Annabel Simms | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

first got into bird-watching in France by stopping on a country road in England and following the RSPB signs welcoming the public to a site in the New Forest

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