The week in wildlife – in pictures

A peacock leaps into the air as it battles a rival over territory on a foggy morning. The brightly coloured bird jumped almost six feet into the air before crashing down on its opponent. The fight was captured by amateur photographer Nilesh Patel, in Dudhwa National Park, India.

A group of black-necked stilt are seen over a mangrove swamp in Baja Mar, west of San Jose, Costa Rica.

A
migrating painted lady rests on a flower in Cyprus. Cyprus is a pit stop for millions of insects that fly at high altitudes over the sea then come to land to rest as they migrate up to thousands of kilometres from the Middle East to western Europe.

Monitor lizards rest by the lagoon in Lumpini Park, Bangkok, which was reopened after the Thai government relaxed measures to combat the spread of Covid-19.

Crows sit on a horse in Mesut Yilmaz Park as spring arrives, bringing the nature to life in Turkey’s eastern Kars province.

A white stork in flight at sunrise in Hortobagy, Hungary. According to a survey by the Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Society, the Hungarian white stork population has decreased by almost a quarter in five years.

A raccoon crawls out of its hiding place on the roof in Berlin, Germany.

Blue-throated bee-eaters perch on a branch in Kars, Turkey.

Red kites active in the skies during mating season in Burley Moor, West Yorkshire.
The RSPB has logged at least 56 potential offences involving birds since lockdown began on 23 March. Species targeted include hen harriers, peregrine falcons, red kites, goshawks, buzzards and a barn owl.

The lemur leaf frog, native of Costa Rica, is one of the key species that Bristol Zoological Society is working to protect, both in
the wild and through conservation breeding programmes.

A great rosefinch in Mount Qomolangma National Nature Reserve in Tibet.

A spotted seal rookery at Kambalnaya Bay, Lazovsky District, Russia.

A leatherback sea turtle fresh from making a decoy nest.

Deer on the platform at Rannoch, near Fort William.

White-eye birds, also known as Pleci birds (zosterops japonicus), being released into the wild in the Sibolangit Nature Park, North Sumatra.

A bee gathers pollen on a blooming branch of a cherry tree in a garden outside Moscow, Russia.

A slow loris climbs a tree near the offices of the Nature Conservation Agency in Pekanbaru, Indonesia.

Several of a group of rheas that were released in Chilean Patagonia. Fourteen of the flightless birds were released with the aim of strengthening the diminished wild population in the area.

A ranger observes the last remaining northern white rhinos at the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya. Fatu is on the left, Najin on the right.

A gallinazo rey in Summit Municipal Park in Panama City, Panama. The park was created in 1923 by the old Panama Canal company.

A yellow-breasted greenfinch passerine bird perches on a branch at a forest in Kathmandu, Nepal. Nepal is a popular destination for migratory birds coming from the southern parts of south-east Asia, Africa and Australia.