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A flock of Bewick swans that have turned back on their migration from the UK to the Arctic tundra due to Storm Darcy. Twenty birds had set off from Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire last week but 12 reappeared at the site just four days later.
Photograph: WWT/PA
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Bears walk free after Kurdish animal rights activists rescued them from captivity in people homes and released them into the wild in Dohuk, Iraq.
Photograph: Ari Jalal/Reuters
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A lynx sitting on a branch at the Domaine des Grottes de Han wildlife park and tourist site in Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium.
Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images
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Following years of preparation for their arrival, a pair of beavers were released into a suitable enclosed site in west Dorset.
Photograph: James Burland/2020Vision/Dorset Wildlife Trust
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Bushfire by Robert Irwin, showing a fire line leaving a trail of destruction through woodland near the border of the Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve in Cape York, Queensland, Australia, has been named as the winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2020.
Photograph: Robert Irwin/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/PA
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A Bee lands on a pink flannel flower (Actinotus forsythii) near the Golden Stairs lookout in the Blue Mountains National Park, Katoomba, Australia. Pink flannel flowers are extremely rare and only grow in scattered parts of eastern Australia, from the Blue Mountains to north-eastern Victoria. The seeds can lay dormant for years, only sprouting following a special series of events to create the right conditions for their emergence, and have appeared a year on after bushfire followed by rainfall. Bushfires burned across the Blue Mountains during the 2019-2020 fire season, damaging some 80% of the world heritage area.
Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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A pelican feeds its young during a census carried out by the National Forestry Corporation (CONAF) on Cachagua Island in Zapallar, Chile.
Photograph: Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters
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Researchers who have released a recent study into sea cucumber poop and its critical role in marine ecosystems, estimate there are three million sea cucumbers on Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef.
Photograph: Prof Michael Gillings/University of Newcastle
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A deer runs past olive trees in a field on the outskirts of the occupied West Bank town of Hebron.
Photograph: Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images
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Two rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameri), also known as ring-necked parakeets, search for food on a paddy field in the suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photograph: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA
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A horse drinks from a wetland at the Albufera Natural Reserve near Alcudia on the island of Mallorca. The number of wetland bird species has increased at the Balearic reserve amid ongoing coronavirus restrictions.
Photograph: Jaime Reina/AFP/Getty Images
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A white-throated kingfisher forages in Jahra Governorate, Kuwait.
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
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The sad sight of more trees numbered and marked ready for the chainsaws of HS2 in Wendover, United Kingdom. A team of anti HS2 and climate change activists are living in woodlands earmarked for destruction to make way for the controversial and HS2 High Speed Rail line from London to Birmingham.
Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock
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Drey Dreaming by Neil Anderson, showing a Eurasian red squirrel asleep in a box. The photographer put the box up in one of the pine trees near his home in the Scottish Highlands, and the picture was one of those highly commended in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2020.
Photograph: Neil Anderson/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/PA
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Larval Lionfish by Steven Kovacs, one of the entries for the Underwater Photographer of the Year Award 2021.
Photograph: Steven Kovacs/UPY 2021
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Starlings roost on the big wheel of the central pier in Blackpool, north east England.
Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
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View of birds on Victoria cruzianas, a species of the Nymphaeaceae family of water lilies (Yacare Yrupe in Guarani), which appear every three to four years in great numbers and size in the Paraguay River, Piquete Cue, north of Asuncion.
Photograph: Norberto Duarte/AFP/Getty Images
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Firefighters transport a dolphin out to sea after it got lost in a shallow water river in Luwu Regency, Belopa, Indonesia. The rescue team managed to bring the poor dolphin back to sea after it strayed several kilometres towards the residential area.
Photograph: Hariandi Hafid/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock
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A lone tree stands in a snow covered field near Canterbury, United Kingdom. Heavy snow in Scotland and South East England last weekend kick started a week of freezing temperatures across many parts of the UK.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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The Oriental or Indian ratsnake (Ptyas mucosa) is a reptile from Sri Lanka, found from the suburbs of Colombo to national parks. This pair of mating ratsnakes swaying to and fro, locked in a mesmerising dance, is a rare sight to capture in central Sri Lanka. Their colouring, however, cannot be used to distinguish between the two sexes, as ratsnakes have been recorded in a range of colours, from black to golden brown.
Photograph: Courtesy of Chaminda Jayasekara/Jetwing Vil Uyana
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