Pink flamingos are seen in the Camargue regional natural park in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Southern France, on January 9, 2025. (Photo by Manon Cruz/Reuters)





Seagulls fly near the Baltic Sea in Scharbeutz, northern Germany, Friday, January 10, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Male puffins battled over territory on the island of Hornoya in Finnmark, Norway in the second decade of January 2025. (Photo by Odd Nielsen/Solent News)





The pictured dated January 15, 2025 shows a Kingfisher swooping to catch a fish at Teddesley Park in Stafford, UK. Kingfishers hunt fish from riverside perches, flying low and occasionally hovering above the water's surface. They ae often spotted darting along a riverbank or waiting patiently on a branch for their next meal to swim by. (Photo by 8TT Photography/Bav Media)





Pelicans rest on a rock in the lake in St James’s Park, London on January 10, 2025, during last week’s cold snap across the UK. The lake would have been frozen over if not for the fountain. Six great white pelicans live in the park and are free to come and go as they please. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A rabbit looks for food in an area burned by the Palisades Fire, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, U.S. January 12, 2025. (Photo by David Ryder/Reuters)





This photograph shows a Robin, a passerine bird, at the Bois de Vincennes park in eastern Paris, on January 14, 2025. (Photo by Martin Lelievre/AFP Photo)





A crocodile swims in a river at the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve in Singapore on January 15, 2025. (Photo by Roslan Rahman and Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





Gazelles graze near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel, on January 14, 2025. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)





A long-eared owl (Asio otus) perches on a tree in Nagyhegyes, northeastern Hungary, 14 January 2025. The Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society (MME) conducts an annual nationwide survey on the wintering grounds of the long-eared owl, one of the most common owl species in Hungary, whose native population boosts during the winter months due to arrivals from further north. (Photo by Zsolt Czeglédi/EPA/EFE)





Tailorbirds get their name from the way they make their nests – the edges of a large leaf are pierced and sewn together with plant fibre or part of a spider’s web to make a cradle shape. This tailorbird was photographed in India in the second decade of January 2025. (Photo by Prasenjit Dutta/Media Drum Images)





A swan also looks a bit perplexed at a frozen lake in Kidderminster, UK in the second decade of January 2025. (Photo by Lee Hudson/Alamy Live News)





Flying squirrel gliding between trees in the second decade of January 2025. Ezo flying squirrels are endemic to Hokkaido, Japan, and are not capable of full flight but are able to glide from tree to tree thanks to their unique skin membrane. Photo by Takashi Kubo/Solent News)





A great blue heron catches a large vole before gulping it down in a roadside pasture near Elkton in rural southwestern Oregon on January 9, 2025. In winter, some local herons adapt by hunting rodents when nearby rain-swollen rivers run high and fast. (Photo by Robin Loznak/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A Bornean orangutan showers her baby with kisses as she cradles him securely in her arms at Blackpool Zoo in the second decade of January 2025. The species faces an “extremely high” risk of extinction in the wild which makes breeding programmes such as this one vital. (Photo by Alison Allen/Media Drum Images)





A pack of African wild dogs encounter a crocodile in Botswana. Photo released on January 14 2024. (Photo by Steve Midgley/South West News Service)





Two sloth bear cubs save their paws from the hot ground during a search for food in the Daroji Bear Sanctuary in Karnataka, India in the second decade of January 2025. (Photo by Baiju Patil/Solent News)





Flamingoes feed at a beach in Kuwait City on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





A heron stands proud right next to a tiny kingfisher, spotted at Pagham Harbour in West Sussex, UK in the first decade of January 2025. The sheer difference in the size of the skilled fishing birds is all too evident, as they sit close to each other waiting for catch of the day. And the heron certainly looks shocked to spot the tiny kingfisher sitting so close, opening its beak in wonder at the spectacle. (Photo by Charlie Blake/Animal News Agency)





A murmuration of migrating starlings is seen across the sky at a landfill site near Beersheba, Israel, on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)