David Cottridge / Northern gannets {Morus bassanus} Bass Rock, Scotland, UK

David Cottridge / Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus} Kent, UK

David Cottridge / Goosander {Mergus merganser} female on water, Norfolk, UK

David Cottridge / Jay portrait with full crop (Garrulus glandarius) Essex, UK

David Cottridge / Little green bee eater (Merops orientalis) Israel

David Cottridge / Immature Armenian gull (LArus armenicus) standing on sand, Magan Michael, Israel

David Cottridge / Spectacled warbler (Sylvia conspicillata) perched on bramble, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

David Cottridge / Black winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) standing in water with reflection, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Great tit (Parus major) with deformed bill, UK

David Cottridge / Streaked rock sparrow (Petronia petronia) standing on rock, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / White crowned black wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) standing on rock, Israel

David Cottridge / Black eared wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica) male standing on rock, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Marmora's warbler (Sylvia sarda) singing from branch, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

David Cottridge / Jay (Garralus glandarius) perched on branch, UK

David Cottridge / South Arabian wheatear (Oenanthe lugentoides) female standing on rock, Yemen

David Cottridge / Black eared wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica) male on rock with caterpillar prey, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Red rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica) collecting mud for nest building, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Red rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica) collecting mud for nest building, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Little green bee-eater (Merops orientalis) perched on branch, Israel

David Cottridge / Ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) female on water, Rapti river, Nepal

David Cottridge / Rufous scrub robin {Erythropygia galactotes} male singing, territorial behaviour, Lesvos, Greece

David Cottridge / Ponte Vecchio bridge (1345), Florence, Italy. Designed by Giotto's pupil Taddeo Gaddi.

David Cottridge / View over the city of Florence, Italy

David Cottridge / St Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy

David Cottridge / Leaning Tower of Pisa and Duoma, Pisa, Italy

David Cottridge / European bee eater with bee prey {Merops apiaster} Spain

David Cottridge / Red rumped swallow collects mud for nest {Cecropis daurica} Lesvos, Lesbos, Greece

David Cottridge / Leaning Tower of Pisa and Duoma, Pisa, Italy

David Cottridge / Aerial view of Danube Delta Reserve Centre, Crisan, Romania

David Cottridge / Endemic Argan trees (Argania spinosa) produce oil-bearing seed, found in scrub foothills of High Atlas Mountains, Morocco

David Cottridge / Pylons and power lines along the Bratu Salina, Danube Delta, Romania

David Cottridge / Neo-gothic facade of Duomo, Florence, Italy

David Cottridge / Puffin flying {Fratercula arctica auk} Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK

David Cottridge / Pied Kingfisher portrait {Ceryle rudis}, Magan Michael Fishponds, Israel, January

David Cottridge / Puffin in flight {Fratercula arctica} Farne Islands, Northumberland, UK, July

David Cottridge / Buddhist prayer flags at Swayambunath temple, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

David Cottridge / The eyes of Buddha on famous Swayambunath (Monkey temple) stupa, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

David Cottridge / Machhapuchare summit at dawn, as seen from Gandrung, Himalayas, Nepal

David Cottridge / Great tit (Parus major) perched in Elder (Sambucus sp) with elderberries, UK

David Cottridge / Summer wildflowers cover the coastal island landscape of Great Saltee Island, County Wexford, Southern Ireland, Eire

David Cottridge / Dawn hits Annapurna South face, as seen from Gandrung, Annapurna Range, Himalayas, Nepal

David Cottridge / Bass Rock, vital annual breeding ground for hundreds of seabirds, Firth of Forth, Lothian, Scotland, UK

David Cottridge / Littoral zone on shoreline of St Abb's Head nature reserve, Scotland, UK

David Cottridge / Face of house in old walled city of Sana'a, Yemen

David Cottridge / Looking up hill at Al Mahwit town, Highland region of Yemen

David Cottridge / Village on the road to Al Mahwit, Yemen, Arabia

David Cottridge / Eroded boulders visible at low water, deposited by glaciation, Lady Island Lake, County Wexford, Ireland

David Cottridge / Pushupatinath Temple, the most holy Hindu place in Nepal where cremations take place on the holy ghats, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

David Cottridge / Looking across buildings in old walled city of Sana'a, Yemen

David Cottridge / Velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca) male on water, Kuusamo, Finland

David Cottridge / Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) perched on grass stem, Magan Michael Fishponds, Israel

David Cottridge / Blue tit portrait {Parus caeruleus} perched in tree, winter, UK

David Cottridge / Little green bee eaters mating {Merops orientalis} Israel

David Cottridge / Little green bee eater {Merops orientalis} male feeding female in courtship, Israel

David Cottridge / Isabelline wheatear {Oenanthe isabellina} winter, Isles of Scilly, rare vagrant to UK

David Cottridge / Alpine accentor {Prunella collaris} Gavarnie, French Pyrenees, September

David Cottridge / Immature Armenian gull feeding on fish {Larus armenicus} Magan Michael, Israel, Middle East

David Cottridge / Red kite, immature {Milvus milvus} Tregaron, Wales, UK

David Cottridge / Fieldfare {Turdus pilaris} feeding on fallen apples, England

David Cottridge / Ruined village houses, Hirta, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

David Cottridge / Ruined village houses, Hirta, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

David Cottridge / Ruined village houses, Hirta, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

David Cottridge / Seabirds on Bass rock, Firth of Forth, Lothian, Scotland

David Cottridge / Ruins of the village street St.Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

David Cottridge / Green woodpecker male {Picus viridus} England

David Cottridge / Gannet colony on Bass rock, Firth of Forth, Scotland UK

David Cottridge / Bass rock, Firth of Forth, Scotland UK

David Cottridge / Dawn over Annapurna summit, as seen from Annapurna base camp, Annapurna circuit, Himalayas, Nepal

David Cottridge / Great tit {Parus major} above and Blue tit {Parus caeruleus} below, Essex, UK.

David Cottridge / Red kite in flight, Wales, UK

David Cottridge / Northern gannet portrait, Bass Rock, Scotland

David Cottridge / View towards Jbel Toubkal, high point of High Atlas Mountains, South of Marrakech, Morocco, North Africa

David Cottridge / Little bittern fishing {Ixobrychus minutus} Lesbos, Greece

David Cottridge / Eyes of Buddha on stupa of Monkey Temple. Swayambunath, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

David Cottridge / Eyes of Buddha on stupa of Monkey Temple. Swayambunath, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

David Cottridge / High Atlas mountains, Morocco, North-Africa

David Cottridge / Terracing for farmland in foothills of Himalayas, Nepal

David Cottridge / Puffin {Fratercula arctica} in flight with fish in beak, Farne Islands, Northumberland

David Cottridge / Cream coloured courser {Cursorius cursor} Israel

David Cottridge / Avocet wading {Recurvirostra avosetta} Lesvos Greece May lesbos

David Cottridge / Black capped / Rufous sibia {Heterophasia capistrata} Nepal Phulchowki Hill Kathmandu V

David Cottridge / Red crossbill drinking {Loxia curvirostra} Wiltshire England UK