The seabird sentinel

From a heroic long-distance swimmer to a producer of spectacularly eerie sound effects, the seabirds seen swooping and diving over British waters have all manner of singular skills, says John Lewis-Stempel

There’s just a pig board between me and the lively grey seal barrelling towards me down the corridor. Tipping the scales at about 27kg, the pup – a young male called Bop It – already weighs as much as

Photographer Helen Iles revisits Ynys Enlli for a few days of seal watching and star shooting. She finds much had been left unchanged on this ‘Island in the Currents’ as she volunteers to protect its ways from the wild elements that encircle it

There’s always something fishy in the voe

LARISSA CLARK ON OCEAN CITIZEN SCIENCE

For some reason Benny and Susanne Anguiano, from Salinas, California, decided to take their Siamese cat Rayne Beau with them when they went camping in the vast wilderness of Yellowstone National Park.