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Antarctic,Antarctic Peninsula,Hope Bay. Wilson's Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) seems to walk across the surface of the water as it searches for its favourite food - plankton.
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Antarctic,Antarctic Peninsula,Hope Bay. Wilson's Storm Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus) seems to walk across the surface of the water as it searches for its favourite food - plankton.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Half Moon Bay. Wilson's Storm-Petrels (Oceanites oceanicus) 'walk on water' in the silvery calm waters of the bay feeding on plankton.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Half Moon Bay. Wilson's Storm-Petrels (Oceanites oceanicus) 'walk on water' in the silvery calm waters of the bay feeding on plankton.
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Antartica,Antarctic Peninsula. A flock of the common place Cape Petrel (Daption capense) in flight over one of the peninsula's many embayments with mountain and glacier flowing off the icecap in the background.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. The rare Snow Petrel (Pagodroma nivea) in flight against the back drop of clear blue skies.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,preying on the young and vulnerable penguin chicks Antarctic Skuas (Catharacta antarctica) also known as Brown Skuas are the areas primary bird of prey.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Skua (Catharacta antarctica) in flight.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Skua (Catharacta antarctica) in flight.
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Antarctica,Drakes Passage. A Southern Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) sweeping gracefully across the stormy wind-blown waters of the Drakes Passage crossing from Antarctica to continental South America
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Antarctica,Drakes Passage. Albatross sweeping gracefully across the stormy wind-blown waters of the Drakes Passage crossing from Antarctica to continental South America
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Antarctica,Drakes Passage. Albatross sweeping gracefully across the stormy wind-blown waters of the Drakes Passage crossing from Antarctica to continental South America
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. The Gentoo Penguin breeding colony surrounding the Chilean Station. A popular stop for expedition ships visiting the area at the end of the season as the young chicks start moulting and preparing for the upcoming winter.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. The Gentoo Penguin breeding colony surrounding the Chilean Station. A popular stop for expedition ships visiting the area at the end of the season as the young chicks start moulting and preparing for the upcoming winter.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. The Gentoo Penguin breeding colony surrounding the Chilean Station. A popular stop for expedition ships visiting the area at the end of the season as the young chicks start moulting and preparing for the upcoming winter.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. The Gentoo Penguin breeding colony surrounding the Chilean Station. A popular stop for expedition ships visiting the area at the end of the season as the young chicks start moulting and preparing for the upcoming winter.
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Antarctic,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. An albino Gentoo Penguin chick stands looking out to sea with the icecap in the background.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. Against the majestic backdrop of a towering tabular iceberg,a Giant Petrel (Macronectes giganteus) uses the wind eddies formed by its micro climate to patrol its edge in search of food.
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Antarctica,Drakes Passage. Albatross sweeping gracefully across the stormy wind-blown waters of the Drakes Passage crossing from Antarctica to continental South America
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,a Royal Albatross (Diomedea epomophora) in flight over sunny seas
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Antartica,Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctic Sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. A group of Adelie Penguins,French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife Adélie,rest on a heavily weathered 'bergy-bit' or small iceberg.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Antarctic Sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. A group of Adelie Penguins,French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife Adélie,rest on a heavily weathered 'bergy-bit' or small iceberg.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Antarctic Sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. A group of Adelie Penguins,French explorer Dumont d'Urville named them for his wife Adélie,rest on a heavily weathered 'bergy-bit' or small iceberg.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. Antarctic Skuas (Catharacta antarctica) preying on the young and vulnerable penguin chicks at the Paradise Harbour breeding colony. Also known as Brown Skuas,they are the area's primary bird of prey.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. A Gentoo Penguin chick (Pygoscelis papua) emerges from its down feathers into an adult's countershaded plummage.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Hope Bay. The Argentine scientific base at Esperanza in Hope Bay one the few inhabited year round with families as well as scientific staff. The scene of the first ever shots fired in anger in Antarctica in 1952 when an Argentine shore party fired a machine gun over the heads of a British Antarctic Survey team.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Hope Bay. The Argentine scientific base at Esperanza in Hope Bay one the few inhabited year round with families as well as scientific staff. The scene of the first ever shots fired in anger in Antarctica in 1952 when an Argentine shore party fired a machine gun over the heads of a British Antarctic Survey team.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. A zodiac driver from the expedition ship the MV Discovery explores Paradise Harbour with a massive grounded tabular iceberg as a backdrop.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Half Moon Bay. The expedition ship 'Polar Pioneers' cruises past the entrance to the Argentine Scientific Base at Half Moon Bay protected by the arete peaks of Livingstone Island.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. An adult Gentoo Penguin calls out to mark its territory at the breeding colony at Paradise Harbour.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Penisula,Antarctic Sound. Sailing through the sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley Australian artist Noel Miller captures the scene.
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Antartica,Antarctic Peninsula,Antarctic Sound. A heavily weathered 'growler' or small iceberg weathered by the short summer sun and by constant flipping and turning as its centre of gravity changes.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. Cruising the coastline of Antarctica in the expedition ship,MV Discovery,as red parka-clad tourists view the passing glaciers and ice flows from the bridge.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Hope Bay. The constant melting,refreezing and capsizing of icebergs,creates incredibly delicate patterns in the ice,shown here by tabular icebergs outside of Hope Bay.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. In Antarctic Sound otherwise knows as 'Iceberg Alley' large tabular icebergs are highlighted in its stormy water by the sun breaking through.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. A moulting Gentoo Penguin calls out for its next meal at the breeding colony at Paradise Harbour.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,in Antarctic Sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. The expedition ship MV Discovery cruises past the icebergs of different shapes and sizes that litter the water.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,in Antarctic Sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley. In the early morning with clear skies and high winds creating stormy looking seas.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. A Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis) surfaces for air in the Antarctic Sound.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Yankee Harbour. Dramatic light and clouds over Yankee Harbour,a former American whaling station.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Penisula. A Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) patrols the edge of a penguin colony waiting for young fledgling birds to take to the surface.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Penisula. The sketch pad of Australian artist Noel Miller on the bridge of the expedition ship the MV Discovery as it makes it way down the Antarctic Sounds otherwise known as 'Iceberg Alley'.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Yankee Harbour. Dramatic light and clouds over Yankee Harbour,a former American whaling station.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Penisula,Antarctic Sound. Sailing through the sound otherwise known as Iceberg Alley Australian artist Noel Miller captures the scene.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Deception Island. The expedition ship the MV Clipper Adventurer,highlighted by the late evening light,battles heavy seas off Deception Island.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Antarctic Sound. Moonrise over Livingstone Island.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Antarctic Sound. Moonrise over the tabular icebergs the sound.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. A zodiac driver from the expedition ship the MV Discovery explores Paradise Harbour with a massive grounded tabular iceberg as a backdrop.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Paradise Harbour. A zodiac boat driver from the expedition ship MV Discovery floats on the protected waters of Paradise Harbour as the morning sun breaks through the early morning cloud.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. The constant melting,refreezing and capsizing of an iceberg creates incredibly delicate patterns in the ice.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. The chart room on the bridge of the expedition ship MV Discovery,the navigator plots a course through the maze of islands that make up the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Penisula. Peaks on Livingstone Island cloaked in clouds shaped by higher altitude winds.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. Peaks on Livingstone Island cloaked in clouds shaped by higher altitude winds.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Hope Bay. Peaks of the Antarctic Peninsula in good weather showing deep crevassing and glacier clad peaks.
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Zambia,South Luangwa national park. Yellowbilled storks return to colony at sunset (Mycteria ibis) .
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Zambia,South Luangwa national park. Yellowbilled storks return to colony at sunset (Mycteria ibis) .
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Zambia,South Luangwa national park. Marabou stork (Leptoptilos crumeniferus) and immature yellowbilled stork (Mycteria ibis)
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Drakes Passage. Running into heavy seas,the bow of the expedition ship MV Discovery cut a path through the deep blue sea separating the southern continent from South America.
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Falkland Islands; West Point Island. Black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) in flight.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Port Lockroy. Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) and Cruise Ship Clipper Adventurer.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Drakes Passage. Running into heavy seas,the bow of the expedition ship MV Discovery cut a path through the deep blue sea separating the southern continent from South America.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula. The Chilean Air Force base at Paradise Harbour a favourite stopping off point for expedition ships exploring the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Half Moon Bay. Heading out to sea from the penguin breeding beach and scientific station of Half Moon Bay at sunset with storm clouds breaking over the surrounding peaks.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Half Moon Bay. Heading out to sea from the penguin breeding beach and scientific station of Half Moon Bay at sunset with storm clouds breaking over the surrounding peaks.
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Kenya,Maasai Mara,Narok district. A white-backed vulture comes in to land near a kill in the Masai Mara National Reserve of Southern Kenya.
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Close-up of Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) Landing on Lake in Summer, Bavaria, Germany
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Adult cape (pintado) petrel (Daption capense) in flight, Drake Passage, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions
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USA,Alaska. A Mallard Drake (Anas platyrhynchos) flaps his wings on the melting ice of a pond in the Alaska Range.
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USA,Alaska. Arctic tern in the Alaska Range. Arctic terns have the longest migration of all birds,travelling up to 40,000 KM/year (25,000 miles).
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USA,Alaska. Arctic tern in the Alaska Range. Arctic terns have the longest migration of all birds,travelling up to 40,000 KM/year (25,000 miles).
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Falkland Islands; West Point Island. Black-browed albatross incubating egg in a clifftop colony shared with rockhopper penguins.
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A Northern Giant Petrel in flight off Shag Rocks. These birds are the size of a small albatross and have a single tubular nostril on the top of the bill.
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Gentoo Penguins,Pygoscelis papau,at the Chilean base in Paradise Harbour on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,close to Neko Harbour a Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) shows it back and fluke as it prepares for a deep dive in search of krill which are ambundant in Antarctic waters - the flukes are used to indentify individual whales.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,close to Neko Harbour a Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) shows it back and fluke as it prepares for a deep dive in search of krill which are ambundant in Antarctic waters - the flukes are used to indentify individual whales.
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Antarctica,Antarctic Peninsula,Neko Harbour. A mother and calf humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) cruise along the edge of a glacier snout in search of krill and small fish as they fatten themselves up during the south polar summer
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Antarctica,Weddell Sea,Halley Bay. Emperor penguin & chick (Aptenodytes forsteri).
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Antarctica,Weddell Sea,Halley Bay. Emperor penguin & chick (Aptenodytes forsteri).
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Antarctica,Weddell Sea,Halley Bay. Emperor penguin & chick (Aptenodytes forsteri).
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Antarctica,Weddell Sea,Halley Bay. Emperor penguin & chick (Aptenodytes forsteri).
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Adult Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica) in flight, Drake Passage, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions
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Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), Torgersen Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions
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