Week in wildlife: a fishing anhinga, a northern nutcracker and cuddling seals
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Birdwatchers have flocked to the Norfolk coast after this rare bird was spotted for the first time in more than 35 years. The slender-billed northern nutcracker – a speckled member of the crow family, described as having ‘a very bold nature’ – was spotted in Mundesley by a local resident. It has reportedly now moved west to the Hempstead area, to the relief of Mundesley dwellers, whose streets are once again free of parked carsPhotograph: Tim Allwood/SWNSShare
This three-month-old male macaque monkey, named Garip, was rehomed at the Gaziantep wildlife park, southern Turkey, after being illegally smuggled into the countryPhotograph: Omer Faruk Salman/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
A pigeon bites down on a chip, discarded on the pavement in Farnworth, UKPhotograph: Joel Goodman/The GuardianShare
A bearded vulture, or lammergeier, soars through the sky with its wings spread wide in Ankara’s Beypazarı district, TurkeyPhotograph: Alper Tüydeş/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
A fish and two starfish rest on a coral reef underwater in Tuzla, TurkeyPhotograph: Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
A newborn grey seal pup on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, as the pupping season begins at one of the UK’s most important sites for the mammals. More than 3,700 baby seals were born along the five-mile stretch of coast in Norfolk last yearPhotograph: Joe Giddens/PAShare
A Klunzinger’s wrasse, popular among aquarium owners for its vivid colouring, swims alongside a coral reef in the Red Sea off Marsa Alam, EgyptPhotograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPAShare
A red-eared slider, a turtle species native to North America, basks above the pink waters of Hatirjheel lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The lake changed colour after chemicals were added to try to reduce its foul odour, a result of years of sewage overspillsPhotograph: Md Rakibul Hasan Rafiu/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockShare
A great egret hunts for fish at the Oxbow nature conservancy in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, USPhotograph: Jason Whitman/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
A ruddy shelduck, looking and sounding remarkably like a real-life Pokémon, at the Bois Marquis garden in Vernioz, FrancePhotograph: Romain Doucelin/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
A Chinese mountain cat stands alert on a path in Shenyang, north-eastern ChinaPhotograph: Yan Dongliang/VCG/Getty ImagesShare
A jellyfish joins a group of cyclists in Newport Beach, California, during floodingPhotograph: Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersShare
A flock of swans is bathed in Renaissance light at Swan Lake in the Rongcheng Great Swan national nature reserve, ChinaPhotograph: Li Xinjun/VCG/Getty ImagesShare
Vast indifference … tourists swim alongside a green sea turtle in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, EgyptPhotograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPAShare
A grasshopper rests on a leaf in a garden in Assam, IndiaPhotograph: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
Peek-a-boo … a dark moray eel looks out from a crevice among colourful reef rocks in Ayvalık, TurkeyPhotograph: Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
A gull catches a fish along the shore in Delray Beach, FloridaPhotograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
A school of grunts swim together at Arashi reef, ArubaPhotograph: Joseph Prezioso/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockShare
Grate expectations … a street vendor feeds a rat on a roadside near Dhaka University, BangladeshPhotograph: Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
White-tailed eagles spar in the Pacsmag Lakes nature reserve near Tamási, southern HungaryPhotograph: Attila Kovács/EPAShare
Julie, a 45-year-old female elephant, eats at Pangea Trust elephant sanctuary, Vila Viçosa, Portugal. She was brought to the country from Africa to be a circus elephant, but changes in the law means she is spending her retirement in this more natural environmentPhotograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
A monkey has a fruity snack at the Linh Ung pagoda in Da Nang, VietnamPhotograph: Saduman Turkay/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
Danger from the deep … an anhinga catches a fish in the waters of the Green Cay nature centre and wetlands in Boynton Beach, Florida, US. Anhingas swim underwater, propelling themselves with their webbed feet, and spear their prey with their beakPhotograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/ShutterstockShare
A sea otter floats on its back at Unalaska harbour, in the Aleutian islands, which stretch west from Alaska towards RussiaPhotograph: Brian Adams/The GuardianShare
A view inside a beehive as the harvest of traditional log-hive honey begins in the highlands of Hizan district in Bitlis, TurkeyPhotograph: Orhan Alca/Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
A mother and son cheetah playing together in Samburu national park, KenyaPhotograph: Andy Rouse/SWNSShare
