White Pelicans are reflected in the waters of the Viera Wetlands in Viera, Fl. on December 30, 2024. (Photo by USA Today)





A bald eagle is seen perching on a tree branch with a magpie in Seward, which stands out as one of the natural habitats of bald eagles, the national symbol of the USA, Alaska, United States on December 28, 2024. These eagles of prey survive here thanks to the abundant fish resources and large forest areas in the region. (Photo by Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A stoat stands on the shores of Kerkini lake, Greece, on January 9, 2025. (Photo by Elias Marcou/Reuters)





Handout photo dated January 11, 2025 issued by Woburn Safari Park in Woburn, Bedfordshire, UK, of two of its North American black bears playing on the ice of the frozen pond in their enclosure. (Photo by Woburn Safari Park/PA Wire)





A kestrel cranes its neck as it peers down from the sky near Overton, Hampshire, UK in the first decade of January 2025. A kestrel can have a wingspan of up to 80 cm. (Photo by Deborah Heath/Picture Exclusive)





A roe deer and her calf cross between islands in the River Mur near Leibnitz, Austria in the first decade of January 2025. (Photo by Harald Stelzer/Solent News)





A Water vole on a branch above floodwater in Yalding, Kent on Monday, January 6, 2025. Weather warnings remain in force across much of the UK on Monday with adverse conditions, including flooding from heavy rain and thawing snow. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)





Polar bear cubs in Wapusk National Park, Canada venture out of their den for the first time with their mother in the first decade of January 2025. (Photo by Ken Conger/Solent News)





A red fox hunts mice in the snow covered field in Kars, Turkiye on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Ozgen Besli/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A young grey seal in the dunes at Horsey in Norfolk on Friday, January 3, 2025, as the pupping season draws to a close at one the UK's most important sites for the mammals. Wardens from the Friends of Horsey Seals have done their final count and announced 3246 pups have been born this season. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





A black kite hunts for fish on a cold winter morning at Kalkere Lake in Bengaluru, India on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Idrees Mohammed/AFP Photo)





A brown-eared bulbul eats a Pyracantha berry in the city of Gangneung on South Korea's east coast, 08 January 2025. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA/EFE)





A Siberian tiger rests in the snow at the Hengdaohezi Siberian tiger park on January 5, 2025 in Hailin, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province of China. (Photo by Chi Shiyong/VCG via Getty Images)





A red squirrel peeps out from behind a snow bank in Inverness-shire, Scotland on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Jane Hobson/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





The picture dated January 5, 2025 shows seal pups at Horsey Gap in Norfolk, UK. Horsey Gap is home to one of the largest colonies of grey seals in the UK, with numbers increasing steadily. More than 3,500 seal pups were born along the stretch of coastline last season. (Photo by ATT Photography/Bav Media)





Roberto Ciccardini, 55, captured a robin craning its neck completely upside down to eat a berry from the tree in Alessandria, Italy in the first decade of January 2025, a first for the nature photographer, who has been shooting animals for nearly 20 years. (Photo by Roberto Ciccardini/Solent News)





A grand gathering – emperor penguins arrive en masse for breeding at Pointe Géologie Archipelago, Antarctica in the first decade of January 2025. (Photo by Natacha Planque/IPEV)





A dalmatian pelican comes in to land near Lake Kerkini, northern Greece on January 4, 2025. This is the largest member of the pelican family, nearly as big as an albatross. One dalmation pelican needs to eat more than a kilo of fish each day. (Photo by Aristidis Vafeiadakis/Zuma Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A deer stag lies amongst frosty foliage at Richmond Park in London, Britain, on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Reuters)





Fast food got a whole new meaning in Hokkaido, Japan, where a vole was captured fleeing from a fox in the first decade of January 2025. (Photo by Hiroki Inoue/Solent News)