Tim Laman / Blue Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) male calling in the vicinity of the Tari Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Tim Laman / Superb Bird of Paradise (Lophorina superba) male in rainforest canopy in the vicinity of the Tari Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / King Penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) rookery, fall, St Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergance

Colin Monteath / Hiker looking at Mt Cook, known locally as Aoraki, from Malte-Brun, Southern Alps, New Zealand

Mark Brownlow / Kukenon, flat top tepuis, southern Venezuela, South America. November 2005, BBC Planet Earth

Mark Brownlow / Angel Falls, world's tallest waterfall, southern Venezuela, South America November 2005, BBC Planet Earth

Richard Du Toit / Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchellii) pair, Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Woodland and hills, Bunga Inselbergs, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Donald M. Jones / Wild Horse (Equus caballus) group, Pryor Mountain, southern Montana

Martin Willis / Granite boulder in desert, Spitzkoppe, Damaraland, Namibia

Nick Hawkins / Sooty thrush (Turdus nigrescens) endemic to the southern highlands of Costa Rica, March.

Nick Hawkins / Volcano junco (Junco vulcani) endemic to the southern highlands of Costa Rica.