Wild life

Source:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/

A newborn Sitatunga calf and an orange-bellied parrot are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

Birds in Barbuda gather in one of the world’s largest bird colonies. 

Prince Harry visited the colony during a boat tour of the Caribbean island.

Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

Migrating birds fly over the Yellow River Delta in Dongying, China.

Photograph: Xinhua / Barcroft Images

A white-tailed deer buck in Michigan, US.

Photograph: Eric Wengert/Alamy

Fishes swim in the tropical waters of a Polynesian archipelago, 

which provided inspiration for the Disney film Moana.

Photograph: Valerio Berdini/Rex/Shutterstock

Johan Kloppers’ photo, entitled The Stare of Death, is a contender for wildlife image of the year. Kloppers captured the lion’s attack on a wildebeest in Kgalagadi Transfrontier park in South Africa.

Photograph: Johan Kloppers/2016 Wildlife Photographer of the Year

A newborn lora turtle on a beach at the Ostional national wildlife refuge 

in Guanacaste on the North Pacific coast of Costa Rica.

Photograph: Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA

A newborn Sitatunga calf at ZSL Whipsnade zoo in the UK. T

he swamp-dwelling species is Africa’s only true amphibious antelope.

Photograph: Tony Margiocchi/Barcroft Images

Snowfall covers Huangshan mountains In China.

Photograph: Xinhua / Barcroft Images

A squirrel eats a nut in Valentino Park in Turin.

Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images

A swan swims on a pond near Steingaden in southern Germany.

Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images

A wild tiger cub in India. A recent WWF report states that 

Asian transport projects may thwart efforts to save the world’s tigers.

Photograph: Joseph Vattakaven/WWF

Source: Guardian Environment

A sleeping dormouse, baby marine iguana and a frilled dragon are among this week’s pick of images from the natural worldA baby turtle emerges from its nest and ventures down to the water, Costa Rica Photograph: George Turner/Rex/Shutterstock

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	A baby turtle emerges from its nest and ventures down to the water, Costa Rica	Photograph: George Turner/Rex/Shutterstock

Migrating cranes at sunset near Straussfurt, Germany. The cranes rest in central Germany on their way from breeding places in the north to their wintering grounds in the south

Photograph: Jens Meyer/AP

A deer walks towards a receded lake Purdy where water levels have dropped several feet due to a sever drought, in Alabama, US

Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP

National Trust ranger James Robbins was carrying out his final dormouse survey of the year in late October on Cornwall’s Cotehele Estate when he found this Hazel dormouse dozing ahead of its winter hibernation. Britain’s dormice are threatened by habitat loss – but at Cotehele conservation work means that numbers are booming

Photograph: James Robbins/National Trust Images

A herd of elephants in Amboseli national park, Kenya

Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images

An aerial picture with a drone shows fall foliage among pine trees near Sieversdorf, Germany

Photograph: Patrick Pleul/Alamy

A grasshopper sits on flowers in Freiburg, southern Germany

Photograph: Patrick Seeger/AFP/Getty Images

Hoar frost on leaves near the village of Groebenzell, southern Germany

Photograph: Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images

A harlequin ladybird prepares to take flight in London, England. The invasive species, originally from Asia, have been seen in high numbers across the UK after a warm and dry summer

Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

A little owl among some woodland mushrooms, Yorkshire, UK

Photograph: Jed Wee/Rex/Shutterstock

A ground pangolin in Zimbabwe, taken as part of a series on members of the Tikki Hywood Trust, who dedicate their lives to the most trafficked mammal in the world. The charity workers are assigned one pangolin each, and spend 24 hours a day rehabilitating and walking the endangered mammals so that they can forage naturally

Photograph: Adrian Steirn/Barcroft Images