The week in wildlife – in pictures

Fallow deer from Dagnam Park rest and graze on the grass outside homes on a housing estate in Harold Hill, near Romford, Essex. The semi-urban deer are a regular sight in the area but as the roads have become quieter due to the nationwide lockdown, the deer have staked a claim on new territories

A little blue heron (
Egretta caerulea) forages for food in a marsh in Naples, Florida.

A mason bee deposits its collected pollen in an elderberry stick. The food supply is sufficient for the eleven-month development of the brood from the egg to the finished bee. Wild bees are active in March and April and die before their offspring hatch

Mountain goats roam the streets of LLandudno, Wales. The goats normally live on the rocky Great Orme and are occasional visitors to the seaside town, but a local councillor told the BBC the herd was drawn in greater numbers by the lack of people due to quarantine measures

Black-winged stilts (
Himantopus himantopus) look for food at the wetland of Nea Kios, Nafplio, Peloponnese, Greece

A cluster of Columbia spotted frog eggs float during an expedition to monitor wildlife populations held by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in Diamond Fork Canyon, east of Spanish Fork, Utah. Officials are searching for eggs belonging to the Columbia spotted frog to monitor their population levels. The frog is one of four amphibians on the state’s sensitive species list because of the threats to its habitat and by predators

A big horn sheep in Arizona

A chameleon crawls on artificial leaves at a house in Sana’a, Yemen. The veiled chameleon (
Chamaeleo calyptratus) is native to the Arabian peninsula and can live up to five years

Sharks and large marine predators have experienced significant decline, but evidence shows their stocks can be rebuilt with the appropriate protection measures, according to a
major new scientific review

Two seven-spot ladybirds or ladybugs (
Coccinella septempunctata) in the UK

A stork on a nest in Eskikaraagac, near Uluabat Lake in Turkey. Eskikaraagac is in the European Stork Villages network, which host storks from Africa during the migration season

As the coronavirus spreads, disrupting global travel and the economy, wildlife rescue centres are struggling to make ends meet. Free the Bears is an Australian non-profit with sanctuaries in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Here, a moon bear enjoys a dip at its Cat Tien bear sanctuary, Vietnam

The rangers of the dog squad search a motorcycle taxi for pangolin scales or hunting ammunition in the Dzanga-Sangha park, Bayanga, Central African Republic. Poached by the local population, pangolin meat is consumed by hunters and the scales are destined for the Chinese market

A lion takes a sun bath at the
zoo in Wojciechow, near Lublin, eastern Poland

A baby rabbit and its mother enjoy the empty roads of Christchurch, New Zealand

Seagulls fly over the beaches of Lima, Peru

Urban foxes are becoming more brazen during the coronavirus pandemic. This one lives near Asda on Old Kent Road in south London

Macaque monkeys scavenge for food on a beach in Ko Koh Ram, known as Monkey Island, in Khao Sam Roi Yot, Thailand

New research has finally demonstrated what many marine biologists suspected but had never before seen: fish, like this tripod fish species, migrate through the deep sea. The study, published this month in the Journal of Animal Ecology, used analysis of deep-sea photographs to show a regular increase in the number of fish in particular months, suggesting seasonal migrations