A robin perches on a snow covered branch near Loch Faskally, Pitlochry, Scotland, Britain on December 17, 2022. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)





A female Iberian lynx, a feline in danger of extinction, named Solera is released with other four lynxes, as part of the European project “Life LynxConnect” to recover this species in Arana mountain range, in Iznalloz, near Granada, southern Spain on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





Black squirrel sits on a branch as light snow falls in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on December 11, 2022. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A gang of oxpeckers eats small ticks and other insects from the coat of an elderly buffalo at the Sabi Sands Game Reserve in Mpumalanga, South Africa in December 2022. (Photo by Anthony Goldman/Solent News)





Whooper swans are seen during a snowfall at Rongcheng Swan National Nature Reserve on December 14, 2022 in Rongcheng, Weihai City, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)





A white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) bird near the lake in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India on 15 December 2022. (Photo by ABACA/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Australian rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) perched on a tree in Adelaide, South Australia on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Amer Ghazzal/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This otter pup is trying to stay dry by lying on its mother's stomach at Kachemak Bay and Homer Harbour, Alaska in December 2022. (Photo by Pam Roseveare/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A Malayan water monitor hunts for food in a lake at Garden by the Bay in Singapore on December 12, 2022. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





An over-affectionate lioness mum smothering her cub with licks in Kenya in December 2022. (Photo by Paras Chandaria/Media Drum Images)





A playful owl looks to be kicking up a pile of fallen leaves as it hunts for food in Diessen, Netherlands in December 2022. (Photo by Eddie Anthonisse/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A dunlin uses its long beak to pull a lugworm out of the sand at the Hel Peninsula on the Baltic Coast in Poland in December 2022. During migration thousands of birds stop here to forage for worms, insects and mussels. (Photo by Mateusz Piesiak/Solent News)





A cormorant catches a fish in the waters of Taudaha lake on the outskirts of Kathmandu on December 13, 2022. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)





The kingfisher sits on a snowy branch in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom in December 2022. (Photo by Aimee Braniff/Media Drum Images)





Pelicans are oblivious to the stunning backdrop as they squabble over food on Lake Kerkini, Greece in December 2022. (Photo by Solent News)





Thousands of penguins (Manchots Royaux) are pictured on December 21, 2022 on the Desolation Island, part of the Crozet Islands which are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. The Crozet Islands are home to four species of penguins. Most abundant are the macaroni penguin, of which some 2 million pairs breed on the islands, and the king penguin, home to 700,000 breeding pairs; half the world's population. Mammals living on the Crozet Islands include fur seals and southern elephant seals. Killer whales have been observed preying upon the seals. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)





An elephant seal is surrounded by penguins (Manchots Royaux), on December 20, 2022 on the Desolation Island, part of the Crozet Islands which are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)





A Deer holding a leaf looks on as they roam Bridwell Park Estate on December 15, 2022 in Cullompton, England. The Devon estate is home to Lord Ivar Mountbatten, whose great uncle was Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. (Photo by Harry Trump/Getty Images)





Young koalas, the male “Yunga” and female “Erlinga”, are pictured during their first outing at the koala house of the zoo in Duisburg, western Germany, on December 19, 2022. Yunga was born on December 2, 2021 from his mother Yiribana and Erlinga on November 15, 2021 from her mother Eora. (Photo by Bernd Lauter/AFP Photo)





A squirrel runs though snow in St James's Park, London on Wednesday, December 14, 2022. Snow and ice have swept across parts of the UK, with cold wintry conditions set to continue for days. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)