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Andy Pollard Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Amateur "Flying Gentoo's" At New Island in the Falkland Islands, the North Beach is a great location to photograph in the evening, the returning Gentoo Penguins, leaping out of the rugged South Atlantic Ocean surf. Groups of S |
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Gregory Hom USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Amateur "Siesta" A flamingo basking in the afternoon sun |
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Flo Fritz Germany 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Amateur "Lake Garda Winter Silence" A quiet garda lake winter moment, with a bird, Monte Baldo in the background and a glimpse of red |
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Brittany Comunale USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Gorilla Stare" |
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Annemarie Berlin Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Bon Appetit" Brown Bear in Alaska |
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Jamie Johnston USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Buffalo Wings" The birds hover close to the buffalo as they graze, snatching insects flying to get out of the way. This photo looked like the buffalo was about to eat the bird! |
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Jamie Johnston USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Buddies" Two bear cubs playing together. |
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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Anhinga tossing Fish" As we sat on the beach an Anhinga landed right in front of us and started diving for fish. Anhinga will use their dagger like bills to spear fish. Once speared though they need to flip them off the be |
.JPG&img_size=400 "tea time?")
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Leif Sohlman Sweden Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "tea time?" Teatime? The litltle common moorhen fowl one moment run on the waterlily pads, the other moment still drinking a cup of tea from the yellow waterlily flower. It was fun to see this bird in movement in |
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Tailai OBrien Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Sleeping Beauties" Rarely captured during daytime hours a group of Australian Red Rumped Parrots sleeping on the electricity wires |
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Angie Conti Malta Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Lion Mates" Lion and lioness matin in the Masai Mara in Kenya. |
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Peter Voss Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Pretty Cold" Antarctica |
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Bill Klipp USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Hippo Mud Bath" If you took a quick look at the mud pile you might have missed what was actually there until something moved. Mostly submerged and covered in thick mud were about a dozen Hippos just looking like mud |
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Budd Parker USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Mountain Goats" |
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Anne Dignam USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Breakfast at Sunrise" |
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Zita Quentin USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Lioness at Sunrise" Lioness surveying the area on the kopjes at sunrise |
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Elisabeth Murray Portugal Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Freddy" Thie frog grew up amongst my many orchids and came every night to sleep in and drink from the pitcher plant. I called him Freddy. Freddy, the frog. |
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Neil Hunter USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "White Bird" |
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Patricia Bauchman USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Frosty Bull Bison" A frosty and snow covered bison trudges through deep snow in Yellowstone |
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Sheryl Falkos USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Dragonfly In Rain " We got caught in a heavy thunderstorm at Bellingrath Gardens. Below our shelter was this dragonfly in the rain. Theodore, AL, USA. |
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Felice Willat USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Avocets" Avocets over Owens Lake, California |
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Alfonso de Cruz Barrios Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Trio" |
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Amy Siqveland USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Wolf in Northern Minnesota" |
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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Footloose and Fancy Free" |
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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Protecting the Nest" |
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Antero Wallinus-Rinne Norway Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Fjaril" |
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Bertrand Helbling France Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Heron" Helbling-Bertrand_Heron-posing-with-Style |
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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "One in a Million" As we began to cross a small channel between an island in the Zambezi River and the mainland I spotted a couple of Yellow-billed Storks and a Grey Heron hunting for fish. The water was dead calm makin |
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Bob Neiman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Lower Monument Canyon 0599" Lower Monument Canyon 0599 |
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Bobby Samuels USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Apollo park duck #2" |
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Brian Jones Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Welcome Swallows" |
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Bruce Gelvin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bighorn Family" In the summertime, all kinds of families can be found in Yellowstone National Park. |
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Bruce Gelvin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bugling Bull Elk" I wish I could have recorded the sound the amazing bull elk was making. |
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Carla Maloco UK Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Young One" A Young Robin starting out alone. Just getting his/her adult plumage. The bright red colour of the breast is just beginning to show. |
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Carol Rusinek Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In Flight" |
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Carol Smokler USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Great Blue Heron #1" taking off |
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Carolyn Lagarenne USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Chillin'" Snowy Egret at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC, USA |
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Cecilie Stuedal Norway Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Kick the can" Eurasian sparrowhawk tries to catch a Eurasian jay |
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Cindy Poulin Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "This is My Best Side" |
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Cindy Poulin Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Dandelion Wine" I saw this bear feasting on dandelions in Southwestern Alberta, just north of the Canada/U.S. border. |
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Claudia Zeien USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Get a Room" Urban wildlife perched on the beam of an abandoned power station. |
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Colleen Sanchez USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Winter Gull" Winter afternoon at Patchogue Bay |
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Crispin Anderlini Malaysia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Gannets of Muriwai" The gannet colony in Muriwai, New Zealand offers a glimpse of avian life from a time when there were simply fewer humans around. Or perhaps we've just become accustomed to each other, so all can thriv |
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Curtis Fedder Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Anticipation" Beautiful and colorful creatures, iguanas are fully established residents of South Florida where they love to hang out in ponds, docks and sometimes in your backyard! |
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David O'Rourke Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Osprey Defending Its Nest" I came across this fellow in the country just east of Toronto. It wasn't happy I was walking so close to its nest. |
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David Mediavilla Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur " Frailecillo" |
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David G Jones UK Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Man of Baguales" This image captures a Gaucho in Chilean Patagonia as he herds his flock of sheep towards the next field after shearing. I was drawn to the commanding silhouette he cast at the top of the hill. |
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Debbie Rubin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Proud Mama" Such a proud mama. |
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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Gold at Daybreak" Three sandhill cranes are seen in the glow of sunrise on a frosty spring morning |
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Diane Gelvin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Stalking Through the Grass" Trekking through Namibia. |
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Don Holman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hand of Time" |
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Donald Wilson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Comfort and Safety Together" Zebras in Kenya find comfort and safety by resting on one another. |
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Donald Wilson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Mother and Cub" A Leopard mother and cub share the shade during midday. |
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Edward Mann USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Oops!" Life is a slippery slope. |
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Edward Mann USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Monday Hug" Zebra interaction cover a range of behaviors, from sizing up rivals to tender moments. |
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Edward Mann USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eagle Owls" Camouflage works both ways. The Kalahari hides predator and prey. |
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Ellin Pollachek USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "So This Cardinal Met Up with This Camel" Actually, they had quite a bit to talk about. |
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Eric Feder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Forlorn" |
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Erik Olson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Katydid on a red japanese maple, a dusting of alder pollen" |
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Felice Willat USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Horgy #1" Wild Horses in Love |
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Gail Karlsson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Wading In" A Great Egret tentatively investigates a small ripple on the surface of a ponddexplores |
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Gail Karlsson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Guardians of the Wetlands" A Great Egret, Snowy Egret and Little Blue Heron crossing paths in a wetland pond looked to me like superheroes combining forces to repel threatening invaders |
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Gayle Pepper USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Come Back " Calling the herd home. |
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Gillian Marshall USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Changeable Hawk Eagle, Rajaji National Park, India" This majestic bird stands tall as he calls out his presence. |
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Giovanni Sonsini Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Alone" Photo taken from an air balloon flying over Margham desrt - Dubai |
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Graham Waiting USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Octopus" Shot at the pier at Busselton, Australia |
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Greg Finnegan Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "City pigeon" Pigeon sitting on wall in Toronto ,Canada |
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James Meldrum USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Frog Shadow" |
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James Meldrum USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Jungle Frog" |
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James Peterson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "A Sip for Breakfast" |
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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Strawberry Chipmunk" I placed two strawberries on the stump and within two minutes this chipmunk raced across the yard and claimed the strawberry as his! |
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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eagle Eye" He was sitting on a post next to my jeep, and wouldn't fly away....like he was parking lot security. |
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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Splashing with Momma" Water world! Fun for the entire family! |
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Janet MacCausland USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Green Sea Turtle at Rest" Endangered Green Sea Turtles such as this one is 2-300 pounds. |
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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Raccoon" Urban wildlife snacking on ornamental cherry tree. |
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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Tender Moment" Mama and Yearling cooling on the Hudson Bay in Churchill summer |
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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Love Is in the Air" Mating Yellow-billed Storks, South Luangwa, Zambia |
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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Defiance" Jaribou Stork - Pantanal |
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Jimmy Lok Hong Kong Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eagle" |
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Jose Costa Brazil Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Maritaca" Vitória ES Brasil |
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Judy Nussenblatt USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "A Window Into His Soul" |
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Kamil Jureczko Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hey, it's my turn!" These two Haig's Porcelain Crabs compete for the best spot on a sea pen, high above the sea floor, where they have better chances to comb plankton from the water brought by the current. |
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Karin Furter Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In the wheel" |
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Katherine Fisher USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Resplendent Quetzal" |
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Kathryn Zerbe USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Up periscope!" after a hearty breakfast a satiated Cormorant "swims" away |
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Kathy Sergio USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Zebras Running" Zebras running in the Maasai Mara at sunset |
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Keli Wakeley USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Protector" Time to move son |
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Kerry Maxwell USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Motherhood" |
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Kurt Westbrook USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bluejay Chatter" A teaching moment for a family of bluejays. |
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Kurt Westbrook USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Eagle Swoop" Open water in winter brings eagles close to land when feeding. |
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Larry Bean USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "My Grandfathers Sang Here" Molt, Montana, USA 2020 |
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Leif Sohlman Sweden Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Barn swallow" Barn swallow 2 is a portrait of a barnswallow staning on a red barn door in the harbour of city Enkoeping (Enkoping) Sweden summer 2022. It is looking out at the boats in the harbour. This image was c |
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Linda Trummer Napolitano USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Mother's arms" Tender moment |
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Liz Hardley New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Emu" |
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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hungry" |
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Lynne Wilde USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Tiny spitfire" These beautiful little Blue Tits fly like the wind! |
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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "sea eagle" |
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Marc Hodel Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "storks" |
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Marina Scarr USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Screech Owl @ Sunset" Female Eastern Screech Owl @ Sunset |
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Marina Scarr USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cattle Egret Feeding Young" Cattle Egret Feeding Young |
.jpg&img_size=400 "On The Hunt")
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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "On The Hunt" Bald eagle leaving the nest and heading toward the lake. |
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Michael Pachis USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Dragon and the Heron" Juvenile Green Heron sizing up a dragon fly |
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Michael Pachis USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Water Landing" Great blue heron landing on a lake |
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Michael Brodie USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Great Egret Courtship Display" The male Great Egret's courtship display dazzles humans, too! |
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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Follow the guide" Penguins often follow the same path to go to the sea in Antarctica. Some people call this path "the highway". |
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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Challenge" Nothing expresses the feeling of loneliness better than the image of a penguin, alone on its ice floe, in front of an inclined slope to climb. |
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Michel Groleau Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "My world" Silence is king in Antarctica to the point of being intimidating. Even the penguins seem to respect him, at least as long as they are alone. |
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Nadja Perez USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Life in 2 colors" |
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Nancy Mitchell USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Dancing in the fog" |
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Neil Hunter USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Osprey" |
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Nell Dickerson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Dust Twirl" This Namibian Desert-Adapted Elephant scrapes the ground to collect sand, then twirls his trunk. Instead of flinging the spoils onto his body, he coils his trunk, and blasts his desert horn. |
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Norman Robbins USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Breakfast" hawk having a snake for breakfast at Wakodahatchee wetlands |
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Norman Robbins USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Brunch" Bear having a nice salmon brunch at the Klahoose Nation wilderness lands |
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Norman Soskel USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In Flight" White-breasted Nuithatch |
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Oyvind Pedersen Norway Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Puffin Battle" Atlantic Puffins battling on snow. |
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Pamela Hymer USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Prairie Siren" The Prairie dog sounds the siren of danger as we drive by on a dirt road through their territory. |
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Paola Francesca Barone Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Di bianco, di rosa, d'azzurro" Aigues mortes, Camargue, Francia , luglio 2022 : il paesaggio della salina più grande d'Europa, caratterizzata da un'immensa distesa di acque rosa, sale rosa e fenicotteri del medesimo colore. |
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Partha Roy Singapore Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Frienship" Kalij Pheasant (Lophura Ieucomelanos) - Male and Great Barbet ( Megalaima Virens) |
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Partha Roy Singapore Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Morning Meetup" Kalij Pheasant (Lophura Ieucomelanos) - Male A distinctive pheasant with bare red facial skin, a backward-pointing crest, and a vertically compressed tail. Males are iridescent black and silver. Femal |
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Patricia Turo USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Nudge" |
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Patricia Bauchman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Snarly Wolf" A wolf reacts when a pack mate wants to share his meal. |
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Patricia Bauchman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Blonde Grizzly Bear in the Water" While Mama fished following the salmon spawn, this very blonde yearling Grizzly cub and its sibling played in the waters of Chilko Lake, BC, Canada |
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Paul Blieden USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Song Sparrow" Walking along a trail in Palos Verdes, California I first heard this bird's wonderful call and then turned around to capture this image. |
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Paula Taylor USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Deep in Thought" Just before sunset and raining in the Maasai Mara, Kenya this magnificent leopard was spotted hiding in the bushes. In a split second he stuck his head out with a look of deep concentration in his eye |
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Paula Taylor USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "My Happy Place" Upon leaving the lodge on the morning drive in Amboseli, Kenya we were greeted by a family of olive baboons on both sides of the road. This baby, was secure in the arms of its mom, with a look of know |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Enough space" Mongolia , Gobi Desert |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Dream Land #1" Antarctica |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Motherlove" Antarctica |
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Peter Voss Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "On the Way to our Meeting" Antarctica |
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Peter Marxer Liechtenstein Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Migration 01" wildebeest crossing the Mara river in the Serengeti |
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Poul Helt Denmark Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Were is you brother" |
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Robin Fisher USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Spoonbill surprise" Spoonbills I want to land here, too! |
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Robin Fisher USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Turquoise wonder" Long-tailed Sylph (hummingbird) |
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Rolf Hoesli Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Deer and Tree" |
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Rolf M Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Langeness" Sundown on Hallig Langeness, Northsea-Germany |
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Romy Klein USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sliding" |
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Ron Smith Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Berry Good" Lunch |
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Ruth Ball Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Always on the Alert" Deer caught strolling through farm yard |
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Sasha Eikel France Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The One Eyed Capuchin Monkey" This beautiful one-eye blind Capuchin Monkey was photographed in the Manzanillo National Park by the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. He was searching for his group that he had been separate from. |
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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Tourist Trap" This alligator is a permanent resident in the Audubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA |
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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Elegant Peacock" A different pose showing off this beauty. Florida, USA |
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Shifra Levyathan Israel Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Optimism" |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Steely Stare" Young Leopard, Masai Mara, Kenya |
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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Playtime in the Mara" Sibling cheetah cubs in Masai Mara, Kenya |
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Sophie Karp USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bear Portrait" Female grizzly bear looks on as she is foraging for food among the rocks |
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Stephen Mimms USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Fabulous mothers" |
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Steve Majsak USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Leap" Crane Leaping Into Flight |
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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Building a Home" Snowy Egrets building a nest for their soon-to-be young |
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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Father and Daughter" A male bison and young one snuggled down for a snowy day |
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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In Flight" Bald eagle in flight |
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Sue Ratcliffe Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Mirror Reflection" Still giraffe reflections ealy in the morning |
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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Estranged" Lamb lost in morning mist as the farmer checks for any babies separated from their mothers after extreme weather over night |
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Victor Nunez Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Faceoff" FotografÃa realizada en Radazul, Tenerife, Islas Canarias. El Antenarius es uno de los depredadores más ferocez, quién ganará la batalla? |
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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee Wildlife Amateur "I See You" |
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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sepiola" A baby squid photographed during a night dive in Ibiza. |
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Zoe Macerollo USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Rwanda Virunga National Park Gorilla mother with baby" Gorilla mother with baby |