Mating, fighting, dive-bombing for food: This year's prize-winning images and videos are packed with avian action—now, in even more categories.
Love Bird Photos?
For 15 years, the Audubon Photography Awards contest has featured stunning work from professionals and amateurs that highlights the beauty of birds and the joy of capturing them through photographs and videos. From adorable baby birds, to bizarre bird behavior, each year’s batch of awe-inspiring photos warms the hearts of our bird loving community.
While photographs can last forever, many North American birds may not. Climate change is the biggest threat to birds and people alike, with two-thirds of North American bird species at risk of extinction due to our warming planet. In response to this crisis, Audubon is working to "bending the bird curve" by halting, and ultimately reversing, the decline of bird populations across the Americas. To get there, we are improving and expanding habitat while tackling the impacts and causes of climate change.
For more than a century, we’ve preserved bird habitats, conducted scientific research, influenced policymakers to enact commonsense conservation laws, and engaged communities across the hemisphere to protect the natural resources upon which birds—and we—depend. Our hemispheric approach recognizes that the majority of bird species in the Americas migrate annually between Canada, the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Our programs are like the birds—not bound by political boundaries and seamlessly integrated across the Western Hemisphere.
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