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Birder & wildlife videographer

Owls, hawks and songbirds filmed with the patience of someone who worked out that the best wildlife spot in the world was his own back garden.

Bird keeper & comedy creator

Six cockatiels and two canaries filmed on the Costa Brava, funny first and quietly educational, for an audience that came for the birds and stayed for the characters.

Travel creator

A Londoner who films the rest of the world for a living, for an audience that plans its own trips around what he shows them.

Wildlife photographer

Shoots leopards and birdlife on safari in Kenya and beyond. An f-stop gear ambassador, and adamant that every frame he publishes is a real animal he stood in front of.

Dogs & everyday life

A boxer with a following most creators would envy, filmed through the ordinary days that quietly rack up tens of millions of views a year.

Adventure travel creator

Films the kind of trips that involve a long walk in before the view arrives, for an audience that plans its weekends around being outside.

Reptile podcaster & educator

Long-form conversations with keepers, vets and biologists, pushing a science-first standard for how we understand and care for animals.

Wildlife & nature photographer

Photographs Spanish wildlife with conservation as the point rather than the caption, the Iberian lynx included.

Wildlife photographer

Birds of prey and garden regulars, photographed with the patience the subject demands. One of the newest names here, and already out with the app.

Wildlife storyteller

Real, raw stories from the animal kingdom, filmed up close for an audience that comes for the untamed version of nature rather than the tidy one.

Wildlife educator & live-cam naturalist

Runs live cameras on nests, feeders and night visitors, and has spent years teaching people how to read what is actually happening in a British garden.

Embroidery artist & conservation advocate

Stitches orcas, owls and small creatures by hand for an audience that came for the embroidery and stayed for the conservation.

Wildlife photographer

Deer and brown hares in the Norfolk fields, shot in the flat low light that part of England does better than anywhere.

Travel & outdoors creator

Colombian trails and long walks, filmed for an audience she is steadily talking into spending more of the weekend outside.

Travel creator

Travels with a tester's eye. She was barely an evening into Kaught before sending back a list of things to fix, and we shipped most of them.

Cinematic travel filmmaker

Slow, carefully cut travel films where the place gets as much screen time as the person walking through it.

Wildlife photographer & filmmaker

Chases creatures across the Texas plains and far beyond, hunting the beauty most people drive straight past. Africa is next on his list.

Bird artist & nature explorer

Paints birds for a living and watches them the rest of the time, for an audience that turns up for the artwork and stays for the species behind it.

Travel creator

Based in Switzerland, where the mountains are the back garden and there is always something living in them worth stopping for.

Dogs & country living

Golden retrievers, muddy walks and English countryside, for everyone whose favourite animal is the one asleep on the sofa.

Wildlife photographer

Deer at rut and waterfowl on quiet Ontario lakes, shot by someone who will cross eight bucks in a morning and still wait for the ninth.

Travel & lifestyle creator

Travels with an eye for what is growing as much as what is going on, and brought an audience along who feel the same way.

Travel & lifestyle duo

A couple who film the big trip and the ordinary days in between, and who asked us more hard questions before saying yes than anyone else on this list.

Travel & discovery creator

Builds a feed out of the things she has not tried yet, which is more or less the instinct Kaught was made for.

Family adventures & hiking

Seasonal woodland walks with a baby on her back and Ruby out in front, the dog who started the whole thing.

Fishing & outdoors creator

Freshwater mornings, saltwater trips and the growth diary of Kaa the snake: living proof the outdoors is better when you share it.

Forest & exploration creator

Forest, fibre and exploration, and a quiet running argument that time spent outside is not the optional part of the week.