Sir David Attenborough is set to present a new series for the BBC which focuses on "extraordinary animal dramas and wildlife spectacles".
The series is to be shown in five parts and titled Wild Isles. It aims to emulate what the Planet series did for the wildlife of the world and help to inspire people to "safeguard and restore nature for future generations".
The project filmed over three years for BBC One was shot using 4K technology and is set to explain the challenges nature faces as well as detailing what can be done to make our wild isles wilder in the future.
Speaking about the project Sir David, 96, said: "In my long lifetime, I have travelled to almost every corner of our planet. I can assure you that in the British Isles, as well as astonishing scenery there are extraordinary animal dramas and wildlife spectacles to match anything I have seen on my global travels."
The introductory episode of the new natural history series will explain to viewers why Britain and Ireland are globally important for nature. For the remaining four hour-long episodes, Sir David and the team will celebrate the Isles' four key habitats - woodlands, grasslands, freshwater and marine.
The series will see new behaviour filmed around the country, including gulls stealing fish from puffins off Northumberland and wild horses battling for access to females in Cambridgeshire.
It will also show blue fin tuna gathering off the coast of Cornwall; black grouse and hen harriers courting in the Cairngorms; red deer stags rutting in one of Ireland's wildest corners; mayfly hatching on a river in Wiltshire; foxes hunting rabbits at night; and a bee that rides a broomstick in Dorset.
The British and Irish countryside will be expertly captured using aerial photography, and motion controlled time-lapse photography will highlight the passing seasons. Thanks to low light cameras, the nocturnal lives of animal favourites and macro photography will be on show as cameras uncover the miniature worlds of rock pools, ponds and grasslands.
The series' executive producer Alastair Fothergill, said: "I have always wanted to make a landmark series that really does justice to our own extraordinary wildlife. I am sure people will be amazed at what is happening right on their own doorstep."
Jack Bootle, head of commissioning, science and natural history, added: "You'll think a meadow in Somerset is as beautiful as the Serengeti, and the North Atlantic as wild and dramatic as the Antarctic Ocean."
