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I've been into birds, reptiles, insects and plants since a kid. Researcher and drone pilot for Nigel Marven Productions.
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22-spot and Harlequin Ladybirds. Two of our most colourful beetles 😍

Masked Finfoot, Sunderbans, Bangladesh. Critically endangered with an estimate of up to 300 individuals left in the wild.

We managed to find the only two recorded Spoon-billed Sandpipers wintering in Bangladesh this year. Fewer than 500 birds left in the wild.

Nordmann's Greenshank, Sonadia Island, Bangladesh. Less than 2000 left on this planet.

Red Ghost Crab, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Pallas's Fish Eagle, Bangladesh

Brown-headed and Pallas's gulls, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Brown-winged Kingfisher, Chestnut-headed and Asian Green Bee Eaters. Bangladesh

New Zealand Fur Seals, Enderby Island, New Zealand

Yellow-eyed Penguin, Enderby Island, New Zealand

Emperor Penguins, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Lesser snow petrel from my recent filming trip to Antarctica.

Floating around in the sea ice off the Drygalski glacier, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Lenticular clouds forming over Mount Erebus, the most southerly active volcano on earth.

Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica.

The dog kennels outside of Shackleton's hut on Cape Royds, Antarctica.

Artifacts from Sir Ernest Shackleton's hut at Cape Royd, Antarctica

McMurdo Sound from Hut Point, taken at midnight. Coldest place on the trip so far.

Inside Shackleton's Discovery Hut at Hut Point, Antarctica

Emperor and Adeile Penguins on sea ice, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Weddell seals and Adeile Penguins on Franklin Island, Antarctica.