Volker Birke Germany 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Amateur "Impossible Dinner" Nikon D810, Nikkor 200-500 1:5,6E ED VR, freehand, young swan "feeded" (by idiots) with a stale and frozen roll / bun, it couldn't take any bite out of it, taken on frozen Lake Steinhude in winter.

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Maria Castillo USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Amateur "Double Brilliance"

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Bill Klipp USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Amateur "Great Blue Heron Sunset" A Great Blue Heron preening at sunset

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Marvin Basil USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "A Mother's Love"

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Rolf M Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Curious" burgers zoo, netherlands

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Octopus under the rays" An octopus under the rays of the sun in Ibiza.

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Beatrice Yoder-Leyba USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Frozen Phantom" early morning rising bison with snow frozen on the face and back YNP 2017

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Esperanza Gomez USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Sharp Beak"

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Chasing" Serengeti national park, Tanzania (Serengeti district)

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Marianna Armata Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Peeking froggie"

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Michael Pachis USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Breakfast" Bluebird returning to the nest

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Marvin Basil USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Looking For Dinner"

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Scavenger" Serengeti national park, Tanzania (Serengeti district)

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Marianna Armata Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Gannet love"

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Take off" Pantanal, Brazil

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Ricardo Ramos Portugal Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Arrival of Spring"

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Marianna Armata Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Tern Kiss"

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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Mom, me and our birds" A rhino calf lays in the shadow of its mom while rhino birds catch a ride in Madikwe South Africa

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Karin De Winter Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "On Watch" Chicks of the king penguins are very inquisitive when it comes to visitors, South Georgia.

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Arup Bhattacharjee India Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Fluorescent Dream" KYAGAR TSO, LADAKH, INDIA

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Carolyn Edelstein USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Oriole"

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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Polar Bear" Polar Bear leaping ice floes We were attempting a Northwest Passage trip and as we cruised the coast of Baffin Island Canada we spotted a couple of Polar Bears moving from ice floe to ice floe. While

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Pamela Steege USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Thelma" Thelma the Longhorn

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Janet MacCausland USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Soft" The feathers on this big bird are impossibly soft in texture and color.

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Nicola Bolton UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Leopard moving kill"

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Annie Low Malaysia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Red-crowned crane‘s Shadow"

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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eagles portrait" Visually, everything about the eagle's appearance is sharp. Agile, elegant, chiselled. This leads to our deepest interior to hone our thoughts and skills as photographers.

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Andy Pollard Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Odd One Out" In winter/spring, both King Penguins will have to go to sea, in order for them to feed the large chicks. The result is a large creche of chicks, with the occasional adult penguin clearly standing out

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Andy Pollard Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sedge Wren Splits" The dexterity or flexibility of the Falkland Islands smallest bird, a Sedge Wren

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Anna Barber USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Egrets in the Grass"

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Anne Connor USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Gulls" The gulls of Sanibel Island

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Majestic Landing" An Osprey landing on a snag at sunset in the wetlands of Southern Florida.

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "A Protective Mother" A grizzly bear and her cub shot in the wilds of Alaska.

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Antenor Leonello Brazil Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Jaguar look"

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Anthony Iacuzzi USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "American Buffalo" The great American Buffalo grazing in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA.

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Carla Maloco UK Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Resting Stag" Red Deer Stag resting after a long night during the mating season. It was a very wet day in the Scottish Highland. This Stag was trying to shelter under some trees

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Charita Carter USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sunbathing" A Snowy Egret sunbathing at sunrise in Malibu Lagoon

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Migration 02" Thousands of wildebeest creating dust as they approach the Mara River.

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Lioness" Lioness on the prowl on the African savanna.

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Christine Goerner Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Kangaroo at Mungo" This Western Grey Kangaroo was quietly grazing in the scrub early one morning in the Mungo National Park, Australia.

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Conor Ryan Ireland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eyes Peeled" A blue heron hunts for its next victim in the reeds.

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Craig Christianson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "New Mother" Robin feeds her new hatchling in a well concealed nest in a river birch

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David Mediavilla Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Golondrinas"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Great Blue Heron"

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sunrise" What a reward to witness the crossing of this bull. He was bent on catching up to his ladies.

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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "A Handsome Fellow" This guy was so very proud of himself. He pranced about turning every which way to show me his true colors.

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Douglas A. Yates USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Iced Salmon" A migrating salmon, 1,000 miles from the ocean, caught by early ice in the Tanana River.

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Edward Mann USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Elephants Drinking" The elephant and water, an intricate relationship and in cases interdependence of other animals sourcing their water from elephants digging holes to find it during dry times. Pushing composition and the serendipitous moment a second elephant framed within the trunk of the closer one. The loss of habitat has created islands where species are contained, and in many cases farming right up to the borders of game parks cuts off traditional migration routes. Most of the water holes keep these and other animals from perishing and exist from boreholes dug to produce them. Amazing to see at close range. Mashatu, Botswana.

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Eunice Vasques Brazil Nominee Wildlife Amateur "And The Life Goes On" Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

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Gary Levy USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Liftoff" I hit a triple!

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Helle Nielsen Denmark Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bee and Flower"

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Hendrik Kotze Namibia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Waiting under the shepherd's tree" A cheetah resting under a shepherd's tree late afternoon, madikwe, south africa

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Hilda Champion USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Forever Love" A pair of Florida sandhill cranes out for a stroll. Spending all of their adult life together, what are they thinking about?

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James Simmons USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Ugandan Mountain Gorilla" Making eye contact with a gentle endangered Mountain Gorilla in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda.

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James Alan McClean USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Four in hand!" Hummingbird feeder frenzy on my back porch.

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Jan Gyllensten Sweden Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) - Buzzard Division" Two Common Buzzards were interested in a road killed animal and had some minor disputes over who was going to eat first. Suddenly one of them makes a full attack, sending his opponent backwards...

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Jan Bellamy New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Common Dolphins"

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Jongsun Lee USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Red eye " Sandhill Crane

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Karin De Winter Belgium Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cote d'Or Elephant" African elephant and thousands of bugs backlit by the sun, Okavango, Botswana.

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Katherine Carlson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Blended Heron" Great Blue Heron blends with nature and the marshy waters that it is surrounded by.

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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Raven " Raven at Yellowstone National Park

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Morning jumps" Dancing sifaka, Madagascar

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Kirill Dorofeev Russia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Chops" Pantanal, Brazil

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Kristen Beck USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Egret of Klamath Marsh" Egret standing on the edge of Klamath Marsh on a beautiful spring afternoon

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Laurie McCormick USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Whales of the Arctic" The Arctic

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Lynne Wilde USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Wild leopard portrait" A wild Leopard’s eyes are totally mesmerizing! This beautiful creature was descending from a tree when it looked straight at me, as if to remind me I was in its territory.

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Marcia Pnacek USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Little Beggar"

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Martijn Rijnberg Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Pygmy marmoset" Photo of a pygmy marmoset, almost posing for the audience, in a special section at Amsterdam based ARTIS, where animals and people are able to walk freely together.

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Mary Beth Jarrosak USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "oystercatcher"

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Michael Knapstein USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eye to Eye" Up close and personal with a small owl.

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Oriole and Oranges" This study in orange features one of several Eastern (Baltimore) orioles visiting the feeder.

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Nova Boudreau Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Second Before Liftoff" A black-capped chickadee dropped by for a quick snack.

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Patricia Bauchman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Last Kiss" A Brooks Falls Brown Bear looks like she missed the fish? She didn't.

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Paul Hetzel USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Egret On A Termite Hill At Dawn"

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Peter Mcfarlane Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "I can get it, I can " Look I'm busy

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Ruth Grindrod UK Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Waders create " Snettisham Norfolk Uk A magical display of thousands of wader birds in flightt

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Takuya Maeda Japan Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Gaze" One day, I felt a set of eyes on me in a forest. Japanese serow, Capricornis crispus, is designated as a special natural treasure. I cannot forget their eyes.

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Tilly Meijer Netherlands Nominee Wildlife Amateur "young scottish highlander" young scottish highlander

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Viola Michaelis Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "cows"

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Willa Davis USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "White Peacock" The master of his universe. Seven foot long, from the tip of his beak to the tip of his tail.

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