From Audubon Magazine

Several of the winning and honorable mention selections, clockwise in a grid from top left: a Red-tailed Hawk claws for a chipmunk; a Red-winged Blackbird dips her bill into a lily pad flower; a Northern Cardinal in flight; a Greater Roadrunner with its back to the camera; a Purple Sandpiper resting; a Sandhill crane adult and chick.
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Audubon Photography Awards
Magnificent Frigatebird, captured by 2020 winner Sue Dougherty.
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Yellow Warbler. Raymond Hennessy/Alamy
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