Close dialogue 1/27 Next image Previous image Toggle caption Week in wildlife: a fishing anhinga, a northern nutcracker and cuddling seals Danger from the deep … an anhinga catches a fish at Green Cay wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, US. Birdwatchers have flocked to the Norfolk coast after this rare bird was spotted for the first time in more than 35 years. The slender-billed northern nutcracker – a speckled member of the crow family, described as having ‘a very bold nature’ – was spotted in Mundesley by a local resident.
It has reportedly now moved west to the Hempstead area, to the relief of Mundesley dwellers, whose streets are once again free of parked cars onth-old male macaque monkey, named Garip, was rehomed at the Gaziantep wildlife park, southern Turkey, after being illegally smuggled into the country A pigeon bites down on a chip, discarded on the pavement in Farnworth, UK earded vulture, or lammergeier, soars through the sky with its wings spread wide in Ankara’s Beypazarı district, Turkey A fish and two starfish rest on a coral reef underwater in Tuzla, Turkey A newborn grey seal pup on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, as the pupping season begins at one of the UK’s most important sites for the mammals. More than 3,700 baby seals were born along the five-mile stretch of coast in Norfolk last year A Klunzinger’s wrasse, popular among aquarium owners for its vivid colouring, swims alongside a coral reef in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, Egypt A red-eared slider, a turtle species native to North America, basks above the pink waters of Hatirjheel lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The lake changed colour after chemicals were added to try to reduce its foul odour, a result of years of sewage overspills A great egret hunts for fish at the Oxbow nature conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, US A ruddy shelduck, looking and sounding remarkably like a real-life Pokémon, at the Bois Marquis garden in Vernioz, France A Chinese mountain cat stands alert on a path in Shenyang, north-eastern China A jellyfish joins a group of cyclists in Newport Beach, California, during flooding swans is bathed in Renaissance light at Swan Lake in the Rongcheng Great Swan national nature reserve, China Vast indifference … tourists swim alongside a green sea turtle in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt A grasshopper rests on a leaf in a garden in Assam, India Peek-a-boo … a dark moray eel looks out from a crevice among colourful reef rocks in Ayvalık, Turkey A gull catches a fish along the shore in Delray Beach, Florida A school of grunts swim together at Arashi reef, Aruba Grate expectations … a street vendor feeds a rat on a roadside near Dhaka University, Bangladesh White-tailed eagles spar in the Pacsmag Lakes nature reserve near Tamási, southern Hungary Julie, a 45-year-old female elephant, eats at Pangea Trust elephant sanctuary, Vila Viçosa, Portugal.
She was brought to the country from Africa to be a circus elephant, but changes in the law means she is spending her retirement in this more natural environmentPhotograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images A monkey has a fruity snack at the Linh Ung pagoda in Da Nang, Vietnam Danger from the deep … an anhinga catches a fish in the waters of the Green Cay nature centre and wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, US. Anhingas swim underwater, propelling themselves with their webbed feet, and spear their prey with their beak A sea otter floats on its back at Unalaska harbour, in the Aleutian islands, which stretch west from Alaska towards Russia ew inside a beehive as the harvest of traditional log-hive honey begins in the highlands of Hizan district in Bitlis, Turkey A mother and son cheetah playing together in Samburu national park, Kenya rting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning © 2026 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved.(dcr)
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