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A grey heron flies away close above a lake, in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany
Photograph: Karsten Eggert/Alamy Stock Photo
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Autumn leaves in Queen’s Wood in London
Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian
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Bighorn rams enjoying a beautiful autumn day in Waterton Canyon, Colorado, US
Photograph: Steve Krull Wildlife Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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Black milking bonnet fungi (Mycena galopus) at Troopers Hill local nature reserve in east Bristol.
Photograph: Rupert Higgins
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Tristan albatross on Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha. The waters around the remote UK Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean are to become one of the world’s largest marine sanctuaries to protect wildlife. The government of Tristan da Cunha has declared a marine protection zone in the territory’s waters that is almost three times the size of the UK
Photograph: Andy Schofield/RSPB/PA
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Clownfish swim under a ghost fishing net that covers their entire reef, off Malapascua Island in the Philippines. From fishing gear to shrinking ice, finalists in the conservation category of the inaugural Ocean Photography Awards focused on the destructive impact of humans on the sea.
Photograph: Henley Spiers/Ocean Photography Awards
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Researchers from Australia’s national science agency have filmed elusive bigfin squid in Australian waters for the first time. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) on Thursday revealed that a deep-sea voyage into the Great Australian Bight off the coast of South Australia had captured footage of five squid 2-3km below the ocean’s surface
Photograph: CSIRO
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A glowing puffleg (eriocnemis vestita) hummingbird at Monserrate hill in Bogota. Colombia is the country with the largest bird diversity in the world, home to about 1,934 different bird species, a fifth of the total known
Photograph: Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images
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Gulls fly around the UK parliament building during sunset. In a study released this week, scientists say they believe the gulls’ ability to adapt to a human timetable is one reason populations of gulls have soared in cities in the past 40 years
Photograph: Simon Dawson/Reuters
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An adult female and juvenile Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa) in the crater of Mount Popa, Myanmar. Scientists recently identified this new species of primate, a lithe tree-dweller living in the forests of central Myanmar with a mask-like face framed by a shock of unruly grey hair
Photograph: Thaung Win/German Primate Center (DPZ)- Lei/AFP/Getty Images
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Red-winged blackbirds fly over the second fairway during a practice round prior to the Masters at Augusta national golf club in Augusta, Georgia
Photograph: Rob Carr/Getty Images
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Casques of helmeted hornbills seized from an animal trader are displayed during a press conference at the regional police headquarters in Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Photograph: Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP/Getty Images
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Two banded mongoose groups form battle lines during an encounter in Queen Elizabeth national park, Uganda. When families of banded mongooses prepare to fight, they form battle lines. Each clan of about 20 animals stands nose to nose, their ears flattened back, as they stare down the enemy
Photograph: Dave Seager/Banded Mongoose Research Project/AP
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A crown-of-thorns starfish at Swains reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef off the east coast of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean. The discovery that coral-eating starfish are late risers and feed mostly at night could help slow the decline of the Great Barrier Reef and other shallow-water corals already ravaged by global warming, scientists say.
Photograph: Scott Ling/Institute for Marine and Antarct/AFP/Getty Images
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An endangered African penguin emerges from the water at Seaforth beach, near Cape Town, South Africa
Photograph: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters
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A nudibranch mollusc on corals in Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia
Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock
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Exmoor ponies released in the Yorkshire Dales, UK. The ponies are part of a conservation project by the National Trust to tackle invasive plant species
Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA
