Audubon Photography Awards Expands with 2025 Winners

NEW YORK / SANTIAGO / BOGOTA (September 17, 2025) – Today the National Audubon Society announced the winners of the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards. Now in its sixteenth year, the awards have expanded to Chile and Colombia with new prizes focusing on migratory species, habitats, and conservation—all while continuing to feature stunning imagery that highlights the beauty and joy of birds and fascinating avian behaviors.  

For the first time, judges awarded nine prizes to residents of Chile and Colombia, along with eight prizes awarded to residents of the United States and Canada. This year also presented the new Birds Without Borders Prize, depicting birds with migratory paths that cross international boundaries, and the Conservation Prize, illustrating conservation challenges that birds face or ways addressing those challenges can help them thrive. Previously featured prizes—such as the Grand Prize, Birds in Landscapes Prize, Youth Prize, Plants for Birds Prize, Female Bird Prize, and Video Prize—were also awarded this year. Two separate panels judged entries anonymously and selected the winners and honorable mentions for their respective regions. 

Prizes for U.S. and Canada Residents

• Grand Prize
• Youth Prize
• Video Prize
• Female Bird Prize
• Plants for Birds Prize
• Birds Without Borders Prize
• Birds in Landscapes Prize
• Conservation Prize

Prizes for Chile and Colombia Residents*

• Grand Prize
• Youth Prize
• Video Prize
• Birds Without Borders Prize
• Conservation Prize
• Plants for Birds Prize, Colombia 
• Birds in Landscapes Prize, Colombia
• Birds in Landscapes Prize, Chile
• Coastal Birds Prize, Chile

*Country-specific prizes are open to residents of both Chile and Colombia. 

Chile and Colombia are home to some of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes and seascapes. Many of the birds that migrate between these vibrant countries and Canada and the United States are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change—including species featured in this year’s Audubon Photography Awards like the Royal Tern, Snow Goose, and Blackburnian Warbler. Audubon works to protect these birds from the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss through coordinated efforts across countries and regions to ensure their survival year-round. This year’s Audubon Photography Awards helps tell the story of hemispheric bird conservation and highlights how birds connect people across geographies and ecosystems. 

Winners and honorable mentions are published online in Audubon magazine and will be featured in the Fall 2025 print issue. The annual Top 100 and additional select photos and videos will also be shared in digital galleries promoted on Audubon's website.  

The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards will open for entries on January 15, 2026. Visit Audubon's website for details on the Chile and Colombia and U.S. and Canada contests, as well as information about Audubon Americas and Audubon’s Plants for Birds program.   

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The National Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation organization that protects birds and the places they need today and tomorrow. We work throughout the Americas towards a future where birds thrive because Audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. Audubon has more than 700 staff working across the hemisphere and more than 1.5 million active supporters. North America has lost three billion birds since 1970, and more than 500 bird species are at risk of extinction across Latin America and the Caribbean. Birds act as early warning systems about the health of our environment, and they tell us that birds – and our planet – are in crisis. Together as one Audubon, we are working to alter the course of climate change and habitat loss, leading to healthier bird populations and reversing current trends in biodiversity loss. We do this by implementing on-the-ground conservation, partnering with local communities, influencing public and corporate policy, and building community. Learn more at www.audubon.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety. 

Media Contact:  
Megan Moriarty, megan.moriarty@audubon.org