Week in wildlife: a hopeful pelican, peregrine chicks and cute baby numbats

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

Main image: Ketchup with that? A pelican at the cafe in St James’s Park, London, UK. Photograph: Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News

Fri 17 Oct 2025 09.00 CEST

Last modified on Fri 17 Oct 2025 09.54 CEST

Double trouble … this photo of a ladyfish snatching its prey from under an egret’s beak was the winner of the Behaviour: Birds category at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. It was taken by Qingrong Yang at Yundang Lake in southeast China

Week in wildlife: a hopeful pelican, peregrine chicks and cute baby numbats

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