Steven David Miller / Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) eggs in nest, Northern Territory Wildlife Park, Darwin, Australia

Steven David Miller / Common Tree snake (Dendrelaphis punctulata) swimming, Mary River, Northern Territory, Australia

Steven David Miller / Brolga cranes (Grus rubicunda) adult and juvenile fishing in wetland, Corroboree Billabong, Mary River, Northern Territory, Australia

Steven David Miller / Brolga crane (Grus rubicunda) fishing in wetland, Corroboree Billabong, Mary River, Northern Territory, Australia

Steven David Miller / Brolga cranes (Grus rubicunda) adults and juvenile fishing in wetland, Corroboree Billabong, Mary River, Northern Territory, Australia

Loic Poidevin / Black tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) two males fighting over territory, Vendeed Marsh, West France, May

Loic Poidevin / Black tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) two males fighting over territory, Vendeed Marsh, West France, May

Yukihiro Fukuda / Wedgetailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) incubating egg on nest that is underground, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Looking out across shallow sea from deserted beach, Christmas Island, July 2008

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) parent coming into land at nest with waiting chick, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) female and chick at nest on top of shrub near beach, chick begging for food, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbirds (Phaethon rubicauda) three adults in display flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red footed booby (Sula sula) brooding egg on nest in tree by beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) in flight overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) pair in flight, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks have left nest to start learning how to fly on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) female and chick at nest on top of shrub near beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White capped / Black noddy (Anous minutus) chick in nest in tree, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) solitary egg laid in tree hollow, this species does not make nests, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) resting on the ground, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks have left nests to start learning how to fly on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) parent about to feed large chick in nest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) parent returns to feed large chick in nest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked booby (Sula dactylatra) mating pair deciding where to lay their eggs, which they do directly on the ground, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) pair sitting in tree, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) protective parent with chick at nest on ground, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) parent coming into land at nest with waiting chick, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) parent returns to feed large chick in nest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked booby (Sula dactylatra) parent shading chick from harsh sunlight at nest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Wedgetailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) exposed egg in nest that is underground, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddies (Procelsterna cerulea) calling, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) adult with newly hatched chick, Christmas Island, July.

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) flying over shoreline of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked booby (Sula dactylatra) flying overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) newly hatched chick, about the size of a thumb, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel, (Pterodroma alba) adult with newly hatched chick, Christmas Island, July.

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) in flight overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red footed booby (Sula sula) chick in tree nest, covered in white feathers as protection against heat of the sun, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) in flight overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) chick alone on a beach. Christmas Island. July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) in flight overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) pair in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) adult with newly-hatched chick, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) newly hatched chick, about the size of a thumb, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Christmas Island landscape, taken from sea, July 2010

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red footed booby (Sula sula) parent with chick in tree where they nested, chick is covered in white feathers as protection against heat of the sun, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) incubating eggs at nest near beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Christmas Shearwater (Puffinus nativitatis) pair, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) flying directly overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked booby (Sula dactylatra) some flying over others on ground, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) with wings outstretched. Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) pair flying, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) adult with newly-hatched chick, Christmas Island,July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Christmas Island Crab covered in salt, found in the salt fields.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) flock in flight over Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddies (Procelsterna cerulea) on shore, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) parent flying back to nest with small fish catch, to feed chick, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) portrait of chick in nest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) in flight just above ground, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) flying overhead under bright sunlight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked boobies (Sula dactylatra), Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Looking up at flocks of birds flying above the trees on Christmas Island, a coral island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) solitary egg in nest on top of shrub, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) flying into forest to nest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) nesting on top of shrub with Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) nesting directly on ground below, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White capped / Black noddy (Anous minutus) and Brown noddy (Anous stolidus) resting on tree, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red footed booby (Sula sula) juvenile flying overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White terns (Gygis alba) flock in flight overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked booby (Sula dactylatra) head portrait, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) chick in the nest, in bushes near to the beach, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) in flight. Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) in flight over sand beach, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / White tern (Gygis alba) flying overhead, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) chick portrait, covered in downy white feathers to protect from heat of sun, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Brown booby (Sula leucogaster) male parent and chick, at coast, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Lesser frigatebird (Fregata ariel) chick calling to parents, white feathers are to protect from heat of sun, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks leaving nests to start flight training on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Blue-grey noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) pair, Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Looking out across sea from deserted beach, Christmas Island, July 2008

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) large chick waiting in nest on ground for parents to return with food, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red tailed tropicbird (Phaethon rubicauda) incubating eggs at nest near beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked booby (Sula dactylatra) parent and young with beaks gaping to cool down in harsh sunlight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) in flight, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Brown booby (Sula leucogaster) male incubating egg at ground nest site, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Looking out across sea from deserted beach, Christmas Island, July 2008

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red footed booby (Sula sula) nesting in tree, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Red footed booby (Sula sula) parent with chick in tree nest, chick is covered with white feathers to protect against heat of sun, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Birds gathering around the only small bit of forest to be found on an island made of coral, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) incubating; this species lays their eggs directly on the ground. Christmas Island, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Masked boobies (Sula dactylatra) on the ground, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Phoenix Petrel (Pterodroma alba) resting on sand, Christmas Island, July