A sodden hare sends water droplets into the air as it shakes itself dry after a downpour in the Scottish Highlands in the first decade of June 2023. (Photo by Karen Miller/Solent News)





A mother fox loses her cool with its partner after a bald eagle attempted to attack their cubs. The dramatic photos of the silver father fox and red mother fox were taken by Hanping Xiao on San Juan Island, Washington, USA in the first decade of June 2023. (Photo by Hanping Xiao/Solent News & Photo Agency)





Great egrets perches on a tree branch in Ajmer, India on 07 June 2023. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A view of a seagull hunting a pearl mullet on Lake Van in Van, Turkiye on May 30, 2023. Pearl mullets living in Lake Van migrate to fresh waters by swimming against the flow of water to breed between April 15 and July 15 every year. (Photo by Necmettin Karaca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Endangered white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala) is seen at Cali Lake in Kars, Turkiye on June 04, 2023. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put white-headed duck to Red List of Threatened Species. (Photo by Huseyin Yildiz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A squirrel is seen at Emirgan Park in Istanbul, Turkiye on June 05, 2023. (Photo by Isa Terli/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





A Greylag gosling eats a daisy as he forrages in the flowers growing in St James's Park in London, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





A newly hatched chick cuddles up to its mother at Santee Lakes near San Diego, California in May 2023. (Photo by Tammy Kokjohn/Solent News)





A Magellanic penguin stares at a sheep after it settles down in its burrow on the Falkland Islands early June 2023. (Photo by Dominique Renault/Solent News & Photo Agency)





The drongo nearly tosses the Indian Roller in spite of its small size in Chandigarh, India on June 11, 2023. Drongos are mostly black or dark grey, short-legged birds, with an upright stance when perched. They are known to utter fake alarm calls that scare other animals off food, which the drongo then claims. The Indian roller occurs widely from West Asia to the Indian subcontinent. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Media Drum Images)





Two fox kits play with each other in a yard, Friday, May 26, 2023, in Lutherville. (Photo by Julio Cortez/AP Photo)





A young swallow is fed a fly by its mum in mid air at the Rising Sun Country Park in North Tyneside, England on June 6, 2023. (Photo by Gren Sowerby/Animal News Agency)





The orange-headed thrush (Geokichla citrina) is a colourful shy singing bird in the thrush family that prefers to live in the damp secluded environment of the rural bush, in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The species shows a preference for shady damp areas and can be quite secretive. The orange-headed thrush is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects, earthworms, and fruit. Albeit shy by nature, this thrush demonstrated high tolerance for human presence. On a good day, the bird will make two trips to its bathing ground, mostly localized to the evening period. This photo was taken in a forest at Tehatta, West Bengal, India on June 4, 2023. (Photo by Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A stork flies over a meadow in the Taunus region in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, early Friday, May 26, 2023. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Two young burrowing owls appear to be sharing a secret in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Mark Koster/South West News Service)





Alpacas take a cooling paddle in Loch Ness, Scotland on June 7, 2023, where water levels are very low. (Photo by Peter Jolly/Northpix)





Amur tiger Mishka with one of her six-week-old cubs as they begin to explore their enclosure at Banham Zoo in Norfolk, England on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. The cubs are a legacy to their father Kuzma, who was the zoo's resident male Amur tiger and died in March aged 14, just weeks before the cubs arrival. Amur tigers are the largest of the world's big cats as well as the heaviest, with only around 500 left in the wild. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





A female Eastern bluebird returns to its nesting box with an insect for her chicks, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Freeport, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)





Five-month-old lion cubs practicing their fighting skills on each other in Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Sharlene Cathro/Media Drum Images)





A common tailorbird builds its nest as the monsoon approaches in the forest of Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of the capital Kathmandu, Nepal, 09 June 2023. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA)