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Goldfinches fly over a field of sunflowers and bushes in northern Saxony. The birds of the finch family spend the winter in large groups and roam around in search of food.
Photograph: Sebastian Willnow/DPA
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A horse, which was rescued by the Miranda Foundation, roams in a forest of the Garraf Massif mountain range near Barcelona. The foundation rescues horses that have experienced difficult situations such as abuse, isolation or abandonment and returns them to a herd life in large natural spaces where the animals participate in educational and scientific projects, social work and different healing experiences now suspended owing to coronavirus restrictions.
Photograph: Pau Barrena/AFP/Getty Images
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Starlings flying in a tight flock over Nafplio in the Peloponnese, Greece.
Photograph: Bougiotis Vangelis/EPA
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Ducks rest on a pond in the fog on Bromley Common, south-east London. The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning on Friday for freezing fog patches in the UK.
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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A wild boar on a cold winter day after snowfall in Ovacik district of Tunceli, Turkey.
Photograph: Sidar Can Eren/Getty Images
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Arlequin toads (Atelopus) at the Jambatu Centre Research and Conservation of Amphibians in San Rafael, Ecuador. In plastic or glass boxes, with litter, water or rocks – according to the needs of each species – the centre reproduces 34 varieties of toads in captivity, whose populations have decreased dramatically due to the increase in temperature and changes in the conditions of humidity.
Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images
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A leopard tries to hide in a residential area of Guwahati, India. A leopard, which was in search of food in Guwahati, has been tranquillised and rescued by Guwahati zoo, say officials.
Photograph: EPA
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A monkey drinks from a packet of milk in front of the Prah Prang Sam Yod, a 13th-century temple, during the annual Monkey Buffet festival in Lopburi province, north of Bangkok.
Photograph: Jack Taylor/AFP/Getty Images
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Turtle time machine by Thomas Peschak is one of the photographs up for the 2020 wildlife photographer of the year people’s choice award.
Photograph: Thomas Peschak/2020 wildlife photographer of the year
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A light-flooded sheet in Arizona’s Chiricahua mountains is dominated by large white-lined sphinx moths and green stink bugs. Ecologist Lee Dyer, who monitors insect populations, says that in years past, this trap captured many more and rarer insects. This photograph is featured in National Geographic’s best animal photos of the year 2020.
Photograph: National Geographic
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A rabbit crosses a road to escape smoke and flame as firefighters work to contain the Bond fire near Lake Forest, California.
Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
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A couple of European bee-eater (Merops apiaster) couple nest in the lower valley of the River Bourbeusein in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region of eastern France. Europe’s breeding bird populations have shifted on average a kilometre north every year for the past three decades, probably driven by the climate crisis, according to one of the world’s largest citizen science projects on biodiversity the European Breeding Bird Atlas.
Photograph: Dominique Delfino/Biosphoto/Alamy Stock Photo
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Bob Prescott, the director of the sea turtle stranding programme at Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay wildlife sanctuary in Cape Cod, holds a cold-stunned sea turtle rescued off Great Hallow beach.
Photograph: Lauren Owens Lambert/AFP/Getty Images
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Wild buffalos graze inside the Agoratoli range in Kaziranga national park in the north-east state of Assam, India.
Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP
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During the pupping season, male grey seals come ashore at Blakeney national nature reserve in Norfolk, cared for by the National Trust, to mate. The largest male seals compete for a position within groups of breeding females. Mating can take place on land or in water. Pictured are a pair of grey seals mate on the shoreline.
Photograph: Hanne Siebers/National Trust Images
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A robin sits on a holly branch at the RSPB’s Loch Leven nature reserve in Kinross, Scotland.
Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty Images
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