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An anhinga holds a fish speared on its beak, both raised above water
Week in wildlife

Week in wildlife: a fishing anhinga, a northern nutcracker and cuddling seals

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

Danger from the deep … an anhinga catches a fish at Green Cay wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, US. Photograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
Fri 30 Oct 2026 04.00 EDT
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A rare slender-billed northern nutcracker, speckled brown and white, stands on the ground
Birdwatchers have flocked to the Norfolk coast after this rare bird was spotted for the first time in more than 35 years. The slender-billed northern nutcracker – a speckled member of the crow family, described as having ‘a very bold nature’ – was spotted in Mundesley by a local resident. It has reportedly now moved west to the Hempstead area, to the relief of Mundesley dwellers, whose streets are once again free of parked carsPhotograph: Tim Allwood/SWNS
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A rehomed baby macaque named Garip holds food up to its mouth
This three-month-old male macaque monkey, named Garip, was rehomed at the Gaziantep wildlife park, southern Turkey, after being illegally smuggled into the countryPhotograph: Omer Faruk Salman/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A pigeon with a chip in its beak stands on wet pavement in Farnworth town centre
A pigeon bites down on a chip, discarded on the pavement in Farnworth, UKPhotograph: Joel Goodman/The Guardian
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A bearded vulture with outstretched wings soars across a clear blue sky in Turkiye
A bearded vulture, or lammergeier, soars through the sky with its wings spread wide in Ankara’s Beypazarı district, TurkeyPhotograph: Alper Tüydeş/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A fish and starfish rest on a coral reef underwater in Tuzla, Istanbul
A fish and two starfish rest on a coral reef underwater in Tuzla, TurkeyPhotograph: Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A newborn grey seal pup rests head to head with its mother on a Norfolk beach
A newborn grey seal pup on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, as the pupping season begins at one of the UK’s most important sites for the mammals. More than 3,700 baby seals were born along the five-mile stretch of coast in Norfolk last yearPhotograph: Joe Giddens/PA
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A Klunzinger’s wrasse with yellow, pink and blue stripes swims over a Red Sea coral reef
A Klunzinger’s wrasse, popular among aquarium owners for its vivid colouring, swims alongside a coral reef in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, EgyptPhotograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA
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A turtle perches on a branch in Dhaka’s pink-tinted Hatirjheel Lake water
A red-eared slider, a turtle species native to North America, basks above the pink waters of Hatirjheel lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The lake changed colour after chemicals were added to try to reduce its foul odour, a result of years of sewage overspillsPhotograph: Md Rakibul Hasan Rafiu/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
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A great egret flies low over water, wings spread and beak open, reflected below
A great egret hunts for fish at the Oxbow nature conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, USPhotograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A ruddy shelduck with orange plumage stands on grass near blurred autumn foliage
A ruddy shelduck, looking and sounding remarkably like a real-life Pokémon, at the Bois Marquis garden in Vernioz, FrancePhotograph: Romain Doucelin/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A Chinese mountain cat stands alert on a path, surrounded by dry, golden shrubbery
A Chinese mountain cat stands alert on a path in Shenyang, north-eastern ChinaPhotograph: Yan Dongliang/VCG/Getty Images
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People stand with bicycles in a flooded Newport Beach street, watching a floating jellyfish
A jellyfish joins a group of cyclists in Newport Beach, California, during floodingPhotograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
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At Rongcheng’s Swan Lake reserve, swans and ducks gather on mudflats under dramatic sunbeams
A flock of swans is bathed in Renaissance light at Swan Lake in the Rongcheng Great Swan national nature reserve, ChinaPhotograph: Li Xinjun/VCG/Getty Images
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A green sea turtle swims toward the camera as snorkellers swim nearby in the Red Sea
Vast indifference … tourists swim alongside a green sea turtle in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, EgyptPhotograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA
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A slender green grasshopper with a pointed head perches on the edge of a leaf
A grasshopper rests on a leaf in a garden in Assam, IndiaPhotograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A dark moray eel peeks out from a crevice among colourful encrusted reef rocks
Peek-a-boo … a dark moray eel looks out from a crevice among colourful reef rocks in Ayvalık, TurkeyPhotograph: Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A laughing gull wades in shallow water holding a silvery fish in its beak
A gull catches a fish along the shore in Delray Beach, FloridaPhotograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A large school of yellow and green striped grunt fish swim together over a coral reef
A school of grunts swim together at Arashi reef, ArubaPhotograph: Joseph Prezioso/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
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A street vendor offers food to a rat peeking through a metal grate
Grate expectations … a street vendor feeds a rat on a roadside near Dhaka University, BangladeshPhotograph: Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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Two white-tailed eagles lock talons mid-air, one flipped upside down, over a forest
White-tailed eagles spar in the Pacsmag Lakes nature reserve near Tamási, southern HungaryPhotograph: Attila Kovács/EPA
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Julie the elephant holds dry grass in its curled trunk amid dense shrubs
Julie, a 45-year-old female elephant, eats at Pangea Trust elephant sanctuary, Vila Viçosa, Portugal. She was brought to the country from Africa to be a circus elephant, but changes in the law means she is spending her retirement in this more natural environmentPhotograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images
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A monkey at Linh Ung Pagoda sits on a branch eating fruit beside an apple
A monkey has a fruity snack at the Linh Ung pagoda in Da Nang, VietnamPhotograph: Saduman Turkay/Anadolu/Getty Images
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An anhinga balances a speared fish on its bill above the water
Danger from the deep … an anhinga catches a fish in the waters of the Green Cay nature centre and wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, US. Anhingas swim underwater, propelling themselves with their webbed feet, and spear their prey with their beakPhotograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
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A sea otter floats on its back in calm teal water at Unalaska harbour, looking at the camera
A sea otter floats on its back at Unalaska harbour, in the Aleutian islands, which stretch west from Alaska towards RussiaPhotograph: Brian Adams/The Guardian
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Inside a traditional log beehive in Bitlis, honeycomb covered with bees at the bottom
A view inside a beehive as the harvest of traditional log-hive honey begins in the highlands of Hizan district in Bitlis, TurkeyPhotograph: Orhan Alca/Anadolu/Getty Images
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A mother cheetah and her cub play together, paws raised, in dry grassland
A mother and son cheetah playing together in Samburu national park, KenyaPhotograph: Andy Rouse/SWNS
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