Egrets nest and breed in a forest in Chongqing, China, on April 5, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A group of Hoopoes were spotted in “unusually high” numbers in Pembrokeshire over the weekend, April 12, 2025. The birds, which migrate from Africa, are rarely seen in Britain. Their distinctive feather crown can be raised or lowered at will. (Photo by Wales News Service)





An Indian one-horned rhinoceros grazes on a dry wetland at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra River in Morigaon district of India's Assam state on April 4, 2025. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)





Native Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya), an elusive and majestic predator endemic to Sri Lanka, prowls through the dense jungle of Yala National Park on April 2025. Known for hosting one of the highest leopard populations in the world, the park offers a rare opportunity to observe these big cats in their natural habitat, an active wildlife sanctuary Camouflaged under the trees among the vegetation, the leopard moves with grace and precision, embodying the spirit of the wild. The leopard emerges from the shadows, peering curiously through the thick foliage. As one of the most iconic and vulnerable species on the island, the Sri Lankan leopard faces ongoing threats from habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict. Conservation efforts remain crucial to ensure the survival of this rare and solitary subspecies, Since 2020, the species has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, as the population is estimated at less than 800 mature individuals, and declining. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Female gorilla Fatou, the oldest of Berlin's zoo and also believed to be the world's oldest gorilla, enjoys her birthday basket with a “gorilla food surprise”, as the zoo celebrates her 68th birthday in Berlin, Germany, Friday, April 11, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





A burrowing owl, just 9 inches tall, keeps watch near its nest in Davie, Florida, on April 9, 2025. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/ZUMA Press Wire/Alamy Live News)





A white stork flies to its nest near Cleebronn, southern Germany, on April 10, 2025. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on April 5, 2025 shows a herd of Pere David's deer at a nature reserve in Yancheng, in eastern China's Jiangsu province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Young elephant siblings playfight in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya early April 2025, sparring for half an hour. (Photo by Akash Akinwar/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Two blue-tailed bee-eaters battle in the first decade of April 2025 for dominance in Khisma Forest, West Bengal, India, hoping to catch the attention of any females in the area. (Photo by Prasenjit Dutta/Solent News)





A male firecrest – one of Britain’s smallest birds – sings from its perch in Sandwich Bay, Kent on April 11, 2025. They tend to move through trees and bushes in search of small insects. (Photo by Jack Hill/Times Media Ltd)





A kingfisher makes a splash as it captures a fish mid-hunt at Teddesley Park in Staffordshire, United Kingdom on April 05, 2025. (Photo by Stuart Brock/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Egyptian geese offspring graze on a meadow on a sunny spring Saturday, April 5, 2025 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.(Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





A swallow (Hirundinidae) is seen flying to hunt in wetlands on April 04, 2025 in Bursa, Turkiye. Swallows, which can live anywhere in the world except the poles and weigh an average of 15 grams, migrate northward from the Arabian Peninsula to their breeding grounds every year in spring. Feeding on small insects such as flies and mosquitoes, the swallows prefer wetlands and marshes to take a break during migration. Flocks of swallows, which fly almost non-stop all day long and feed on both flying flies and their newly emerged larvae above the water, can hunt hundreds of thousands of insects every day. (Photo by Alper Tuydes /Anadolu via Getty Images)





Great white pelicans (Pelecanus onocrotalus) rest in Lake Cavuscu as they migrate from Africa to Europe and Russia with the arrival of spring in Ilgin district of Konya, Turkiye on March 26, 2025. Lake Cavuscu is home to pelicans and migratory birds on the migration route. Lake Cavuscu, where there are suitable conditions for feeding and accommodation, is also home to resident birds. (Photo by Seyit Konyali /Anadolu via Getty Images)





An 11-month-old lowland gorilla plays with her parents at the Prague Zoo on April 10, 2025. (Photo by Lucie Stepnickova/Solent News)





A female African lion licks her month-old cub at the Auvergne Animal Parc in Ardes, on April 4, 2025. The lioness gave birth to two lion cubs, a male and a female, on March 8. The African lion, formerly known as the “Atlas lion”, is classified as vulnerable on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). (Photo by Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP Photo)





A pelican spreads its wings in the water at the Delhi Zoo on a hot weather day in New Delhi, India, 08 April 2025. According to the India Meteorological Department, heatwave conditions are persisting in the national capital and will continue for the next two days, and a yellow alert is in place as Delhi's maximum temperature is to hit 41 degrees on 08 April. (Photo by Harish Tyagi/EPA)





Cattle are stranded in floodwaters after Bolivia was hit with some of the most intense rains in decades, near Trinidad, Bolivia on April 5, 2025. (Photo by Ipa Ibanez/Reuters)





Roseate Spoonbill coming in for a landing on a tree at a bird rookery in St. Augustine, Florida, on April 3, 2025. (Photo by Ronen Tivony/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)