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Bird Photographer of the Year winners announced


Migratory birds in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The overall/conservation winner.
Photo: Patricia Seaton Homonyio/Bird Photographer of the Year

The winners in the bird photographer of the year competition for 2024 have been announced.

The overall winner was highlighting the plight thousands of birds killed each year by colliding with windows or other reflective surfaces in towns and cities.

Here are the gold medallists in each category:

Comedy

An Adélie penguin on some sea ice near Brown Bluff, Antarctica


Photo: Nadia Haq/Bird Photographer of the Year

Portrait

A Grey-crowned Rosy-finch sits on a branch covered in snow in Alaska.


Photo: Alan Murphy/Bird Photographer of the Year

Urban birds

Goosanders cross the road in Poland.


Photo: Grzegorz Dlugosz/Bird Photographer of the Year

Black and white

A Hoary-headed Grebe disappears below the surface of the water to feed


Photo: David Stowe/Bird Photographer of the Year

Bird behaviour

A Turkey Vulture in West Virginia


Photo: Nathaniel Peck/Bird Photographer of the Year

Birds in flight

A Eurasian Hoopoe spreads its wings in India


Photo: Hermis Haridas/Bird Photographer of the Year

Birds in the environment

Northern Gannets dive on a sunny day in Shetland.


Photo: Kat Zhou/Bird Photographer of the Year

11 and under

A Eurasian Bittern feeds


Photo: Julian Mendla/Bird Photographer of the Year

12 to 14

Eurasian Nuthatch at Grazalema in Southern Spain


Photo: Andres Luis Dominguez Blanco/Bird Photographer of the Year

15 to 17

A Grey Plover on the beach by the Baltic Sea.


Photo: Emil Wagner/Bird Photographer of the Year

Photographers around the world entered more than 23,000 images into the competition.



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