Alice Zilberberg Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "Be Here Bison" In the series, Meditations, I create animal montages to draw attention to well being, mindfulness and nature conversation.

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Bernard Sim Singapore 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "Husband and Wife" Pre-wedding Polish chicken posing

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Debby Thomas USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Flamingo Flower" Resting Flamingo

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "angry bird" out of my series ANIMALS

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Lyne Raff USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Embrace"

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Lennette Newell USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Female Saki Monkey " Female Saki Monkey photographed at Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana USA

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Crocodille backlight" Cuba - Gardens of the queen

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Joel Micah Miller Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "#PinkSafari III" Inspired by my toddler, I took some time to see the world - and some giraffes in the South African Karoo - from a different perspective.

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Josette Alkema Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A dog's life" Baboush is one of the stray dog ​​from Romania. We adopted her.

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Deborah MacEwen Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Coalescent" A early morning cruise in the Icy Strait of Alaska where everything came together (light, mood, color, action) for only a moment as this whale made his dive

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Pedro Jarque Spain Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Color explosion" Two macaws taking flight

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Patty Hosmer USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A Mother's Love"

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Cheraine Collette Netherlands Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Elephant Dust" A layer of protection

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Patty Hosmer USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Run for Your Life"

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Pascal Curtil France Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Monkeycity" Welcome to Monkey city, where you see monkeys living freely together with human beings. So incredible and destabilizing to see how macaque monkeys adapt to human environment.

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George Kavanagh Ireland Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "young elephant tear" young elephant tear

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Bence Mate Hungary Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Dandelion" When I first saw this scene in my garden, I instantly knew that I was going to capture it. Nature did not give herself up easily: one year later I kept laying in the grass for 3 weeks to get this imag

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Richard Garvey-Williams UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Dusk Meeting" A Thomson's Gazelle encounters a Topi on the Serengeti plains at dusk

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Stunning Blue" Wild peacock in India showing it's most beautiful feathers

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Barbara Fleming USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A Night Encounter" I was in an overnight hide at a game preserve in South Africa staring into the featureless night when this White Rhinoceros mother and her calf emerged quietly from the darkness and began to drink.

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Alice Zilberberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "For Now Flamingo" In the series, Meditations, I create animal montages to draw attention to well being, mindfulness and nature conversation.

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "gnu" out of my series ANIMALS

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Silverback Forget Me Not" I'm curious about the Silverback and think about his memory recall.

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David Skernick USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "The Eyes Have It" This guy was barking at me as I drove by. I stopped and talked him into posing for me.

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Jeff McCurry USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Rubyspot Damselfly Heart"

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Alain Schroeder Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Saving Orangutans 3" After a medical check, Fahzren, a 30 year old male orangutan, is carried in a wheelbarrow to his private cage at the quarantine center in Medan (Sumatra, Indonesia).

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Alexander Schmitt Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "The arctic kiss" Polar bear cubs with their mother in Canada leave the birth caves.

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Allen Walker South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "Food Fight" The African coast line is a rugged place and to survive animals have to adapt or die, the Cape gannet has adapted in the most amazing ways and even competes for food underwater.

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Andrew B Church USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spider, Web" A spider munches a fresh catch on its intricately spun web at Bear Creek Trail in Columbia, Mo.

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Annette Wijdeveld Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Untitled"

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Eland" Eland photographed in Maasai Mara, Kenya (Oltepesi Tented Safari Camp)

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Giraffe II" Giraffe photographed in Maasai Mara, Kenya (Oltepesi Tented Safari Camp)

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Arctic Fox (I)" Dovrefjell, Norway

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lion" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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Ashley Garrett USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Three Amigos" Stone Harbor, NJ

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Baroness Danute Federas USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Swan flying high" I capture this picture in Japan swans life in the wild it was early minoring freezing departures they fly to the lake some part of the lake has hot water keep them selfs warm

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Bernard Sim Singapore Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ready to pounce" Aiko staring and ready to attack

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Carrie Johnson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Edge of Extinction" In memory of Sudan, the last male of the Northern White Rhinos.

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Christian Brogi Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Transhumance" Transhumance in Tuscan, only lence flaire

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Craig Blacklock USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Red fox on Lake Superior ice shards." Red fox on Lake Superior ice shards, Grand Marais, Minnesota.

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Craig Bill USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Waterworld" Atlantic Stingrays in the Cayman Islands, Caribbean

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David Blow USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Vibrations in the brush" “Vibrations in the brush”, ia a look at what goes on below the surface, Below the tree level is another world where the bluebird finds insects and berries. The palette I use is from nature’s ow

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Denesa Chan USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Two Worlds" An endangered Loggerhead sea turtle hatchling takes the first swim of its ocean-dwelling life while the historic Loggerhead Key lighthouse rises in the background. Taken under FWS permit #187.

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Devante Parson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Three Ducklings" These ducklings were out for a swim on the 4th of July. In a few hours there would be fireworks over this lake.

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Dwight Hiscano USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pebbles Smiling" Pebbles the bulldog smiles during a studio portrait session.

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Ellen Reus Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mother and son"

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Emmanuel Panagiotakis USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "For Your Eyes Only"

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Eric Taylor USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Goat on a Hill" Late afternoon sun in Badlands National Park

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Frank van Groen Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Norway#3"

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Gerlinde Keating USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Summertime" A beautiful Monarch Butterfly

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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Culprit" Fruit Thief, Lion Rock, Fortress in the Sky, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. 2014.

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cormorant Food Fight" Two Double-crested Cormorants fighting over a catfish one had caught just below the Conowingo Dam near Darlington, Maryland.

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Idell Conaway USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Reef Grunts" Underwater coral reef landscape

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Jacqueline Da Costa UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Togetherness" Swans mate for life. I spent time at a lake where the swans passed through on their journey . I was lucky to witness this pair as their regard for each other grew on a daily basis.

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Jan van der Woning Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mustangs Monument Valley" Landscape, Red Sandstone, Monument Valley, United States, Utah, Mustangs,

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Janet MacCausland USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Commensal Shrimp and Anemone" These colorful little shrimp have a commensal relationship with the anemone it lives beneath because they each offer protection for the other.

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Gone Fishing" Bornean Orangutan has gone fishing with a blade of grass. Is her survival as remote as the fish she’ll catch today.

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Joel Micah Miller Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "#PinkSafari II" Inspired by my toddler, I took some time to see the world - and some giraffes in the South African Karoo - from a different perspective.

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Joseph Goh Meng Huat Singapore Nominee Wildlife Professional "Snow Monkey" Snow monkey enjoying the hot spring in the winter

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Karen Evans Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Barred Owl" This image was captured in the woods above my home on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Elusive is the Barred Owl and my husband and I searched through these woods looking for one during our hikes here. So I was surprised and thrilled to come across her during one of our hikes recently. She sat on the branch for quite a while with her eyes glued to our dog crashing around in the bushes below - which gave me the opportunity to take this image.

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Kousuke Kitajima Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "hot kiss" snow monkey.

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Lance Carter USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Three's Not a Crowd" Huddling together for safety and warmth next to the hot springs these monkeys know how to weather the winter cold.

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Lee Gordon USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Great Blue Heron" Great Blue Heron hunting

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Lee Scott USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Look, Mom! A Human!" Brown bears and humans coexist peacefully in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Here a spring cub stands close to her mom on the shore of Naknek Lake.

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Lutz Vorderwuelbecke Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "giraffe carcass" On 27 December 2019 the evening sun broke the cloud cover above the Gondwana Game Reserve, South Africa.

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Malissia Simpson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Incoming" Caught this pidgeon’s beautiful wingspread just as he was landing in the middle of the pack.

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Michael Tweddle Peru Nominee Wildlife Professional "Natural recovery" Old Paraguayan Caiman managed to keep going after having lost his lower jaw time ago in a fight. His natural instinct proves against a Yellow Anaconda that ended as lunch. Pantanal, Brazil

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Michelle Valberg Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lookin at you"

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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Horses Drinking at Big Horn" Horses drinking in the winter at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming

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Nina Fuller USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Snowy Morning in Maine" The ducks and the sheep have a special relationship

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Midnight Reindeer"

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Ottmar Philipp Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tking flight" A swallow is taking-off from the cliff over surreal waters in Newzealand

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Pascal Curtil France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Humanimality" In this portrait of a Thaï macaque monkey, standing free in the city of Lopburi, you can really feel how close we are to them!

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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Arizona Bobcat"

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Patty Hosmer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Where's Waldo Wildebeest?"

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Paul Coghlin UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Profile of a Bald Eagle"

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Morning Trek to Water" In Namibia, adaptation to a challenging environment with often scare resources is critical for everything and everyone.

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Vigilant" Staying together and keeping watch at all time is a requirement for survival in a land where food is a combination of nutrients and water.

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cheetah Drinking"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "I'm Not Looking At You" Cheetah NOT watching Impala

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Zebra Herding" Pups hearding the zebra

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Cheetah"

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Peter Svoboda Slovak Republic Nominee Wildlife Professional "Accompained by the morning light" Special light conditions created the effect of the "light bulbs" of every sheep gazing in the Tuscan fields.

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Robert Pierce Butler Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Horses, Good Morning"

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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spirit of the Forest" Spirit Bear feeding on berries in the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia, Canada

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Roie Galitz Israel Nominee Wildlife Professional "Polar Bear Family in a Melting World" Mother Polar Bear and two young cubs are facing a melting world as their sea ice disappears

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Sam Nerrie Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Groom Me Some More" This pair of gang gang cockatoos were thoroughly enjoying their morning grooming session.

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Samantha Schwann USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Torrent" A wall of Jacks extending from the surface to a depth of 70 feet, in the World Heritage Site and Marine Protected Area of Cabo Pulmo, Mexico

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Sara Lind USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Blue Ringed Octopus" The beautiful and venomous Blue Ringed Octopus is out hunting and flashing it's namesake rings Dumaguete, Phillipines

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Scott Dere USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pink" After the sunset, the glow and reflective light saturated the sky in Pink. The Snowy Owl on a raised dune allowed me to get beneath its level and capture the Pink sky in the backdrop.

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Scott Dere USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Deep Cover" White Tailed Deer graze in the tall fiery grasses of Long Island. They easily disappear and blend into the tall grasses making for great camouflage and an undisturbed meal time.

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Scott Dere USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Night Watch" The Leopard owns the night as the top hunter of the African evening. She can hear the faintest sounds, and pin point it with her incredible eyesight before sneaking off to find her quarry.

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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Clown family "

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Seth Benson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mama Bear"

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Shairon Paterson Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "reindeer" reindeer of Sweden

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Simone Henken Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Professional "Frog"

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Steve Zmak USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dolphin Love" I swam with this dolphin in The Bahamas for about an hour. She would circle and crisscross in a figure 8 at about 9 meters. The trick was getting in her path but lower with the light beams behind her.

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Steve Drimmel USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bath"

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Stuart Price UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Departed Souls" Derided by many as a pest, you have to admire the beauty & symbiotic of nature Pigeons. In India, some religious groups believe when a person dies, their soul assumes the form of a pigeon.

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Sue Vo-Ho Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Faroe Sheeps" There's more sheep than humans living freely in the Faroe Islands.

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Susan Kerr Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Out in the Sage"

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "threaten" He was angry

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Torleif Lie Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pasithea" The wild dolphins would usually interact, play, jump and move in lightning speed. This couple was different. They were gracefully moving through the water, swimming inverted. They seemed totally relaxed, almost like in a state of meditation. I am grateful to have photographed this unique moment in time and for being able to share one of the most memorable experiences from my time photographing these sentient beings. In Greek mythology, Pasithea, was one of the Charities (Graces), and the personification of relaxation, meditation. The Charites are usually said to be the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, but Pasithea's parentage is given (by the poet Nonnus) as Hera and Dionysus She was married to Hypnos, the god of sleep.

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Werner Beetschen Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Reflect the nature"

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Wildlife Professional "Food for all of us"

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Portrait of Red Gurnard" fish, gurnard, garnet, sea robin, deep sea, underwater

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