There's a temptation to put this all into some kind of conservation context, but whatever, these are some of our favorites from 2013:
And another on this theme:
And one good play on words is just too good not to use twice:
By Garrison Frost
December 30, 2013
HOTSPOT: Flyover of California's Birds and Biodiversity
California is a global biodiversity hotspots, with one of the greatest concentrations of living species on Earth.