Dancing Brave had the greatest finishing speed as he proved in the 1986 Arc against the greatest field since Sea Bird.
Veteran conservationist Roy Dennis visits one of the biggest seasonal spectacles, a sea bird colony, and finds out why they might need help.
In March, Taiwan, one of six claimants to this disputed smattering of sandbars and reefs in the South China Sea, built a bird-watching hide on a pinprick previously frequented more by soldiers than ornithologists.
An appeal for volunteers has been launched in the Isle of Man in an effort to eradicate the rat population on a small bird sanctuary in the Irish Sea.
BBC: Calf of Man islet rat-cull project calls for volunteers
Historically, all the expensive and most sought-after food ingredients have been those with purported health benefits - consider bird's nest soup or sea cucumber.
The line named for the black-headed sea gull that is Tokyo's official bird employs only about 60 employees at its 16 stations.
Rivers flowing to the sea, a flame reaching upward, a bird homing: these movements all represent objects yearning to be their true selves, to achieve their true state.
Located off the southern tip of the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, the Calf of Man has been a bird observatory since 1959.
BBC: Calf of Man islet rat-cull project calls for volunteers
He and more than a hundred other unhappy Internet addicts convened near Israel's Sea of Galilee last month to flip their digital .subscriber line providers the bird, so to speak.
Bird watching is especially popular in northern Israel, where the varied climates of the Sea of Galilee, the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon provide lush habitats for hundreds of thousands of birds, including the endangered Marbled Teal, whose only breeding havens are located here.
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