BBC Wildlife - UK (2021-12)

6 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021

Dec.

BBC Wildlife No. 13 Vol. 39

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How much longer will our rivers boast healthy otter populations?

NICK BAKER

Have you ever noticed

those spongy white

bubbles tumbling around

our shorelines? P.

MIKE DILGER

A murmuration of starlings

is one of the UK’s most

dramatic natural events –

let Mike be your guide P.

LUCY COOKE

Apart from us humans,

only four other species go

through the menopause –

one being the orca P.

GILLIAN BURKE

As the skies darken

overhead, the presenter

heads out for a walk in

search of hope P.1 7

MARK CARWARDINE

“These massacres are

one of the most sickening

demonstrations of animal

cruelty I’ve ever seen” P.

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THE COVER

Daisy Gilardini braved mind-

numbing cold and considerable

technical challenges to

photograph polar bears in

Wapusk – not least operating

small camera buttons while

wearing bulky gloves! She used

her Nikon D500 + 80-400 f4.

lens 1/1600 sec at f14 ISO 1250.