The week in wildlife – in pictures
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Various migratory birds perch on bamboo stilts at the Las Pinas-Paranaque Wetland Park in Las Pinas, the Philippines. World Wildlife Day was observed on 3 March.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Seals lounge on rocks in the Lower Bay harbour between Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York City, as the sun sets.
Photograph: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
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A peacock takes a flight at the National Zoological Park in New Delhi, India.
Photograph: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images
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A pack of wild smooth-coated otters crosses Penang Road in Singapore. The otters are well known locally and are nicknamed the Zouk family.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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A langoor with her newborn baby at the Van Vihar National Park in Bhopal, India.
Photograph: Sanjeev Gupta/EPA
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An anteater cub clings to its mother, Estrella, at Magdeburg Zoo in Magdeburg, Germany.
Photograph: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB
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A grey four-eyed opossum (Philander opossum) and its young are released into their natural habitat in Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Photograph: Jorge Torres/EPA
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Pygmy hog babies and mother in Manas reserve, India.
Photograph: Craig Jones
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A green frog on a moth orchid at an agricultural research centre in Hwaseong, South Korea, a day before gyeongchip when, in the lunar calendar, frogs wake from hibernation.
Photograph: Yonhap/EPA
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Technicians from the Galapagos National Park reinsert 461 land iguanas on Santiago island from another island in the Ecuadorian archipelago, in order to return them to a habitat from which they had become extinct.
Photograph: Galapagos National Park/EPA
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Forgotten Songs artworks in Sydney, Australia, commemorating the songs of 50 birds once heard in the city centre.
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
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Black-legged kittiwakes nesting in Newcastle city centre. The kittiwake is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list as a vulnerable species, and the UK’s kittiwake population has fallen by 60% since 1986. But on Tyneside, they’re bucking the trend.
Photograph: David Tipling Photo Library/Alamy
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Peta protesters outside a Canada Goose store in New York City.
Photograph: John Angelillo/UPI/Alamy
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A golden plusia moth. Moths in Britain have declined by a third over the past 50 years, according to a new study.
Photograph: Garry Barlow/Butterfly Conservation
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An Iberian lynx runs free after its release in the mountains of Toledo, Spain. Two lynx, named Rwanda and Rubens, from the raising centre La Olivilla in Jaen were released into the wilderness near Polan, a municipality in the province of Toledo.
Photograph: Ismael Herrero/EPA
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Elephants in the Kimana Sanctuary, part of a wildlife corridor that links the Amboseli National Park to the Chyulu Hills and Tsavo protected areas, within the Amboseli ecosystem in Kimana, Kenya.
Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters
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Frogspawn and frog in the Barbican wildlife garden in London, England.
Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
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A bee approaching the flowers of a willow in Otzberg, Germany. Willow catkins are a protected species and one of the first sources of food for insects in early spring.
Photograph: Arne Dedert/DPA
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One of three flamingos used as pets and decorative animals at a home in Maysan District, Iraq.
Photograph: Chloe Sharrock
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A turkey vulture, the king of scavengers, flies over Panama City, Panama.
Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images
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A dolphin in the Pacific Ocean in Monterrico, Guatemala
Photograph: Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images
