Picturing wildlife, including swans on lake Zbilje in Medvode, olive trees in a field of violet flowers, a Galápagos marine iguana, a great egret in flight, elephants and a giraffe – these photos will give you thrills.
From snow buntings in the Cairngorms in Scotland to a murmuration of starlings near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert, this selection is meant to please your tastes.
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Snow buntings in the Cairngorms in Scotland.
Photograph: Peter Jolly/REX/Shutterstock
A mountain hare in Cairngorms national park, Scotland.
Photograph: Paul Carpenter/Alamy Stock Photo
Swans on lake Zbilje in Medvode, Slovenia.
Photograph: Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters
Snow covers a branch of a blooming cherry tree in Cologne, western Germany.
Photograph: Rolf Vennenbernd/AFP/Getty Images
Olive trees in a field of violet flowers, near the West Bank city of Jenin.
Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA
A Galápagos marine iguana sunbathes with a small ground finch on its back at Tortuga Bay beach on the Santa Cruz Island in Galapagos, Ecuador.
Photograph: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP/Getty Images
Great egret in flight, Venice, Florida, US.
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Wildlife, including elephants and a giraffe, in the Mara Triangle, the north-western part of Masai Mara national reserve in southern Kenya.
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Rangers fit a hi-tech GPS tracker to an elephant in Mwagna national park, in north-eastern Gabon, as part of a new programme to thwart poachers.
Photograph: STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images
Leading ivory trade researcher Esmond Bradley Martin, who was murdered at his home in Nairobi, Kenya this week. Martin pioneered efforts to combat elephant and rhino poaching.
Photograph: Courtesy of Save The elephant
An activist at the Centre for Orangutan Protection examines an x-ray of a male orangutan found dead with his body riddled with 130 airgun pellets and machete wounds in Bontang, East Kalimantan.
Photograph: Centre For Orangutan/AFP/Getty Images
Zoo keeper Zuzana Matyasova feeds and counts the penguins during the ZSL London Zoo annual stock take, England.
Photograph: Joe Maher/Getty Images
Sergeant major fish swim beside a massive school of fish in shallow water in Dahab, Egypt.
Photograph: Andrey Nekrasov/Barcroft Images
A hedgehog in the British countryside, where numbers have halved since 2000, according to a new report.
Photograph: L Campbell/PTES/BHPS/PA
This image by David Herasimtschuk @freshwatersillustrated of hellbender salamanders is part of an instagram feed called Everyday Extinction, where photographers post their work to raise awareness of the global extinction crisis and celebrate biodiversity.
Photograph: David Herasimtschuk/@everydayextinction
A bison at a European bison farm in the village of Cherga in Siberia, Russia.
Photograph: TASS / Barcroft Images
A Verreaux’s eagle owl camouflaged in the thick branches of a tree, Africa.
Photograph: Ingo Gerlach/Barcroft Images
A murmuration of starlings near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert.
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images