mcmullen puts scotland in a strong position against the netherlands in bulawayo. a win will secure their spot for india. there s fresh hope for the world s largest gannet colony on bass rock, a volcanic outcrop off the east coast of scotland. thousands of birds died last year, when avian flu struck in the middle of the breeding season. a year on, the gannet population is showing signs of recovery, as a team of scientists from edinburgh discovered. and they were joined by our climate editor, justin rowlatt. david attenborough: bass rock in scotland s firth of forth - is the largest gannet colony in the world. david attenborough s team visited bass rock three years ago. at the height of summer of the whole of bass rock is jam packed. but this time last year, right in the middle of the breeding season, bird flu struck.
this is bass rock, off the east coast of scotland, home to the world s largest colony of northern gannets. when avian flu struck last year, thousands of birds died. a year on, though, there is hope. the gannet population is showing signs of recovery, as our climate editor justin rowlatt reports. david attenborough: bass rock in scotland s firth of forth - is the largest gannet colony in the world. david attenborough s team visited bass rock three years ago. at the height of summer, the whole of bass rock is jam packed. but this time last year, right in the middle of the breeding season, bird flu struck. gannets, including chicks, died in their thousands. this was the population in 2020, an estimated 150,000 birds. this is 2022.
Advertisement
These incredible images were nominated as finalists for the Nature Photographer of the Year competition for showcasing the beauty of the natural world.
Organised by Nature Talks, there are a variety of sections including landscape, underwater, wildlife and storytelling - with 19,547 images entered from 95 different countries.
The overall winner was Italian photographer Roberto Marchegiani, who was named Nature Photographer of the Year for 2020.
His winning shot was of a giraffe emerging from the forest in Lake Nakuru, Kenya, during the rainy season. Roberto and his friends saw a group of giraffes walking in front of woodland.
But instead of snapping the animals together, Roberto focused on an area of the trees which he thought would frame the long-legged animal well and waited. Eventually a tall creature appeared in his lens, and he got the wonderful shot he was after.