The Latest Breaking News from David Attenborough

The series was filmed over three years across the UK and Ireland

The show's producer said the moment was 'unnerving'

Sir David Attenborough’s landmark series Wild Isles will debut next Sunday, the BBC has confirmed.

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Sir David Attenborough's new series Wild Isles aims to give the wildlife of Britain 'the Africa treatment' and contains an astonishing sequence using infra-red technology

The naturalist's next series will focus on British natural history

Sir David Attenborough is fronting a new five-part BBC One series called Wild Isles which begins on Sunday and it's believed that it could be his last on location

At 96, the nature presenter is set to return to TV screens for a landmark series on British and Irish natural history

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record.

They have shot previously extinct butterflies, soaring white-tailed eagles and the lesser spotted David Attenborough. Now the team behind some of the BBC’s best nature docs are training their lenses closer to home