A California thrasher fleeing fire lands on a burned branch as the Bridge fire explodes in size from 2,995 acres to 46,727 acres in single day, racing up the San Gabriel Mountains toward the ski resort community of Wrightwood, on September 10 2024 near Glendora, California. The fire is incinerating the Sheep Mountain Wilderness and is also threatening Baldy Village, in the Mount Baldy area, to the east. Heatwave conditions have been fueling extreme fire behavior at multiple large wildfires in Southern California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)





African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are seen at the coast of Simon's Town as the number of endangered African penguins has declined due to numerous human factors such as industrial fishing and fuel oil spills in Western Cape, South Africa on September 7, 2024. African penguins, which are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) red list of animals threatened with extinction, have distinctive features such as black feet, the pink markings between the beak and the eye, and the black markings around the eyes that looks like a mask. (Photo by Ihsaan Haffejee/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Flamingos, migrating to warmer regions in the fall, are seen in the lake in Ankara, Turkiye on August 28, 2024. Flamingo chicks were born by breaking their eggs in the spring months in Lake Tuz, Duden Lake and various lakes and ponds of Ankara, which host flamingo colonies in Turkiye. The hatchlings of the flamingos have reached the maturity to fly for migration after receiving flying lessons from their parents. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A palm squirrel and ring-rosed parakeet compete for space on a stump in a residential area of Chandigarh, India in the last decade of August 2024. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Solent News)





A pair of little owls butt heads in the desert in Negev, Israel early September 2024. The play fighting helps develop their social and hunting skills under the watchful eye of their mother. (Photo by David Manusevich/Solent News)





A cheetah hunting in Namibia’s Etosha national park closes in on its prey early September 2024. (Photo by Jan Hrbacek/Caters News Agency)





Sea lions nap together on the San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, on Friday, August 23, 2024. Hundreds of them took over the beach, prompting local officials to close the area to people. (Photo by Nic Coury/AP Photo)





Coyotes also known as Jackals, belong to the canine family and live in Central and South Africa herd in the delta in Bursa and hunt as a group in Turkiye on September 9, 2024. Coyotes, which can adapt to open and forested areas, meadows and savannah as habitats, live between 9-16 years depending on the conditions. These carnivores, which mostly hide and rest during the day, become active at night and at dusk and hunt medium and small-sized animals. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A fluffy owlet at Blackhall Colliery in County Durham, UK in the first decade of September 2024 wakes after its nap. Long-eared owls are Britain’s most nocturnal, with a penchant for recycling other bird’s old nests. (Photo by Chris Gee/Media Drum Images)





A swan swims in the Sava river's Cukaricki meander covered in algae in Belgrade, Serbia, 02 September 2024. The Cukaricki meander's waters are a mix of backwaters, river water, and wastewater, which, combined with poor circulation and high temperatures, have turned the area into a settling basin for pollutants. This has led to the overgrowth of algae, creating a “green carpet” effect, which is common in rivers during hot, dry summers due to increased nutrient levels and reduced oxygen. (Photo by Andrej Cukic/EPA/EFE)





Foxes were seen playing and hunting in woodland near Rayleigh in Essex, UK on September 5, 2024. (Phoot by Stuart Brock/The Times)





A male mandarin duck – a species introduced from east Asia – appears to quack up with laughter while preening his feathers at Fyvie Loch in Aberdeenshire, Scotland early September 2024. (Photo by Mark Deans/SplitPics UK)





The air is filled with hares as they dance and leap around in Norfolk, UK in the first decade of September 2024. The animals have been known to jump as high as 12ft (3,66 m). (Photo by Debbie Michaels/Solent news)





A little owl was very co-operative with Ian Turner’s efforts to capture the bird looking straight down his lens in Potter’s Bar, Hertfordshire early September 2024. Because the species only weighs about 170 grams and can fly very quickly, capturing them in such detail in flight is notoriously difficult. (Photo by Ian Turner/Animal News Agency)





Garfish jump on the water during a tuna safari in the Sound strait in Helsingor, Denmark, on September 4, 2024. Tuna tourists sail out from Helsingoer to see the bluefin Atlantic tuna catch garfish, herring or mackerel. Back in the 1950s, there were plenty of tuna in the Sound Strait, but they disappeared due to overfishing. Large restrictions were imposed on tuna fishing and therefore the tuna returned in 2017. (Photo by Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AFP Photo)





A sparrow feeds in a city park during a sunny day in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, August 30, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A pair of bald eagles clash in a battle over their next meal in Kachemak Bay, Alaska in the first decade of September 2024. (Photo by Karen Cohen/Solent News)





A peacock displays its feathers after monsoon rains on the outskirts of Ajmer, India on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





A wild boar is seen in the swamps in Kocacay Delta, located in Karacabey district of Bursa, Turkiye on August 27, 2024. Swamps in the area support a wide range of biodiversity, including birds, reptiles, mammals, and plants. (Photo by Alper Tuydes/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Migratory flamingo birds rest in the Nea Kios wetland in Argolida, near Nafplio, Greece, 28 August 2024. The autumn migration of birds is in progress. (Photo by Bougiotis Evangelos/EPA/EFE)