Best Wildlife Photos of the Week

Bee-eaters in Van, Turkey
Photograph: Ali Ihsan Ozturk/Anadolu/Getty Images

Female Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters release a bear in the Gara mountains near the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk. The peshmerga discovered the bear living in a private home
Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images

An owl is ready to be released after being treated at a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Van, Turkey
Photograph: Ozkan Bilgin/Anadolu/Getty Images