Carmen Troesser USA 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Professional "Sisters" Two female fawns lean on each other for support after their mother was killed by a passing car.

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Professional "New Generations" Tiny orange fish roe waiting and preparing for their birth.

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Barbara Fleming USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Professional "Intimacy in Amboseli" - Elephant mothers are very nurturing and protective of their young calves. Shown here is a young calf touching his mother for reassurance as the herd walks back to the forest after spending the day f

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Bear family"

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Frances Suter Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Monkey business"

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Jo Howell Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "SOS"

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Fenqiang Liu USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Morning's Glory" I captured this Great Egret in the early spring morning in Central Florida; it took off beautifully and flew out of the shadows into the sunlight.

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Grant Stirton Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Mantis Shrimp" Bali, Indonesia

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Jo Howell Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Spin Cycle"

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Neil L. Johnson USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Cardinal in Flight" Deep freeze during COVID lockdown in Louisiana. My challenge was to only photograph birds in flight out my window.

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Jo Howell Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "44 22 11"

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Christopher Rossiter USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Floating Spotted Crab in Reflection" Floating Spotted Crab in Reflection

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Chieko Tanemura USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A Couple"

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Paula Durbin USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Ahhh"

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Nancy Ney USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Entwined" Pont de Gau Saintes Maries-del-la Mer Southern France

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Mimetism(macro)" Indonesia - Lembeh strait - a very little fish up a blue sea star, it's underwater macro picture

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Ben Pulletz UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "The Two Lovers" I went back most days to this field as the sunset would always be amazing with the golden light gleaming across the field. All i needed was a subject to photograph. I saw these two hares and got lucky

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Jim Burns USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Star(ling) Wars" A male Gilded Flicker and a European Starling engage in an intense aerial battle over territory. The starlings were coming to blossoms atop a Giant Saguaro in which the flickers had a nest.

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Paula Durbin USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Head Bath" Got to clean the whole thing!

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Jennifere Thompson Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Icu Too Pan troglodyte " Pan troglodyte, or Chimpanzee live in social groups consisting of males, females and their babies. Communication is through grooming, facial expression, physical display and verbal hoots.

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Alice Zilberberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Calm Caribou" In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy, drawing attention to mindfulness and nature conservation.

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Steve Sorensen USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Such a Handsome Puffin, Iceland" A beautiful puffin preparing to head out to sea.

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Jo Sax UK Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "fawn" inside outside fawn .An image from a series exploring the human relationship with the wild.

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Lee Scott USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "A Calendar Bear" A beautiful brown bear rises out of the water and I am both awed by its presence. Katmai National Park, Alaska

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Alice Zilberberg Canada Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Restfil Rhino" In this series, Zilberberg creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy, drawing attention to mindfulness and nature conservation.

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Zuzana Kamel Slovakia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Sweet tooth wasp" While eating pancakes we spilled maple syrup on the table. Wasp loved it.

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Alan Barker Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Camel Train" The camel train along Cable Beach provides a fitting subject for the gorgeous sunset backdrop

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Sara Lind USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Anemonefish" Anemonefish in host anemone, Puerta Galera, Phillipines

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Martin Steenhaut Belgium Honorable Mention Wildlife Professional "Underwater bird dance" Diving gannets seem to dance as they surface again after fishing in group

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Alain Ernoult France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Global emergency" Balance games

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Allen Walker South Africa Nominee Wildlife Professional "Adventure Surfing" Herons fishing of the backs of Hippos have become agile surfers, even when the male hippo's are have a full on territorial dispute!

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Antti Karppinen Finland Nominee Wildlife Professional "I will eat your soul" Portrait of the most evil cat in the world

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Arnaud Gras France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fly"

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "The river crossing" Maasai Mara, Kenya

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

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Arnfinn Johansen Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Northern hawk-owl" Østerdalen, Norway

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Barbara Fleming USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Greater Flamingo Pair" The Greater flamingos were busy eating the algae common in the shallow saline waters of Ndutu Lake but at times would ruffle their feathers and interact with each other. Flamingos have a moveable uppe

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Barbara Fleming USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Blue and Yllow Macaws" The Blue and yellow macaws flew over us on a gorgeous morning in northern Brazil.

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Bence Mate Hungary Nominee Wildlife Professional "Spider Web" Beavers have become extinct in almost every part of Europe due to human activity. Thanks to the protection of the species and their habitat, since the beginning of the 21st century we have been witne

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sunset owl"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "The kill"

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Bjorn H Stuedal Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fox play"

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Brian Eastwood New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Professional "Misty Beach" A misty morning on deserted Orewa Beach, North of Auckland New Zealand.

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David Skernick USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "American Avocet" These amazing birds migrate through the Eastern Sierras every year. I found this one coming in for a landing on Owens Lake.

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David Blow USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Crow Magic" Crows are messengers calling to us about the creation and magic that is alive within our world everyday and available to us. I am using graphic patterns to capture the vibrations of magic.

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Debby Thomas USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Wild now stabled" No words...

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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Siblings" One by one these young foxes came out of their den, sat down & posed while checking me out.. I literally had one sec to capture this before they all scattered to play.

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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Whatcha Looking At" While photographing a family of Ospreys in the rain this one flew in, looked like he was having a bad hair day and seem to be mad that I was photographing him not at his best, lol

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Deborah MacEwen Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Kicked to the Curb" While photographing a Great Grey Owl a second one flew in from nowhere, pushed him off the tree & started to fight. It was over as fast as it started leaving the 1st owl wondering what had just happen

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Debra Ledsinger USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "The Jumping-Off Point"

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Dianne Yudelson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mandrill"

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Dmytro Golovchenko Ukraine Nominee Wildlife Professional "Nature and ducks. Winter. Kyiv. Ukraine" Winter nature and ducks sit on ice in one row on the river. Composition. Diversity.

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Eduardo Soler USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Running Horses" Costa Brava, Spanish Coastal Region in Catalonia.

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Eleszabeth McNeel USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fla Fla Flamingo"

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Morning's Glory - the Panorama" Great Egrets build their nests on trees during breeding seasons to prevent predators' attacks. Their positions allow me to photograph their wings with the sun shining through.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Love Language" I captured this beautiful moment of a mother Great Egret and a baby Great Egret on a spring morning in 2020 in Central Florida.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "This Land is Your Land" Orlando Wetlands Park is a natural habitat for many wildlife and a winter paradise for thousands of migrating birds. I captured this beautiful moment when a Snowy Egret flew toward the sunrise.

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Fenqiang Liu USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "An Autumn Tale" I captured this image in mid-November this year in Caddo Lake, Texas, when the monochrome of the bald cypress and Spanish moss tangling on the trees created the beautiful look of a charcoal drawing.

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Gene Sellers USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Solitary Witness"

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Graham Eaton UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "A Fish Out Of Water" I wanted to capture an image of a Salmon in a Welsh River, jumping towards the camera

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Grant Stirton Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Reef Octopus" Similan Islands, Thailand

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H. Allen Benowitz USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Red-bellied Woodpecker" This captured moment occurred in this beautiful bird's natural habitat, Everglades, FL

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Harvey Duze USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pond Slider Turtles" Two turtles resting in pond at the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens.

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Henrique Murta Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Encounter" The barely known beauty of a creature your eyes are too big to see.

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Irina Petrova UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Diva" A photo of a beautiful nymph of an orchid praying mantis sitting on a flower. I thought it was looking like an opera singer diva.

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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Operation Safran"

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Jean-Charles Folliet France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Pale dawn"

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Jeff Grant Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flamingo" Sleeping Flamingo

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Jeff Johnson USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "This Must be a Dream" A glorious sunset in the Last Frontier. The mountains of Alaska.

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Jo Howell Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Fly away home" Ladybird on plaster cast of its natural environment.

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Jo Sax UK Nominee Wildlife Professional "Town mouse " Part of a series illustrating the fable of the town mouse and the country mouse

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Joerg Barkholz Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dragonfly"

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Joyce P. Lopez USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Carp in Green"

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Ken Sax USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Supribe Starling" Trying to look cool, while catching some raise...

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Kirk Wester USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Panther Chameleon" Panther Chameleon with colorful Sky.

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Kristina Truluck USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Punk Rock Pony"

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Linda Matlow USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Lucky in Love" Two swans face to face and Lotus flower floating near them in pond

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Liz Dahler USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Crane Shadow" Legend has it that the West African Crane was crowned in gold after leading a great chief to water.

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Marcia Loor Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Eyes of a jewel" Little frog in a stream, cool attitude and beautiful eyes

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Mr. crocodille" Cuba - Gardens of the queen - American Crocodille in the dive moment

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Massimo Giorgetta Italy Nominee Wildlife Professional "Group of platax" Indonesia - wai island -under the jetty a beautiful group of platax

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Maureen Ruddy Burkhart USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Evanescence #10" An egret finds a nice spot in a protected wetlands area outside of Denver, Colorado

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Merlin Viir Estonia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Billy"

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Merlin Viir Estonia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Estonian Native Horses Allegro and Aragon"

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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Red Bullet" I have always loved the grace and speed that Cardinals have when flying. I think I have succeeded at capturing this.

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Mike Drazdzinski USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Golden Hour" While shooting at sunset, I wanted to have the sun light the bee approaching the sunflower while using a splash of light as fill and still show motion in the wings. I think I succeeded at this.

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Nancy Ney USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "WaterRun" Cargue Horses running in the marsh.

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Round Up"

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Oliver Klink USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Liberty Run"

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Paul Broben Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "'Storm Feed'" Late Afternoon Storm Feed...

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Watering with a Flair" For most life, water is essential. Often giraffes acquire it with a flair at a watering hole at dawn.

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Paul M. Murray USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Power" Traveling in herds, elephants are a dominant and powerful presence wherever they are.

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Ack! What is it?"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Play Time" Sub Adults playing and jumping

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Brotherly Love Head Bump"

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Paula Durbin USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "What is it??" Three cubs looking to see whats coming

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Peter Meyer Australia Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bubble Boy" A Green Turtle blows a bubble just before he takes a breath.

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Pieter Clicteur Belgium Nominee Wildlife Professional "Djaxx" Djaxx, the sphynx cat

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Rajesh Dhungana Nepal Nominee Wildlife Professional "Aggressive Leopard" Leopard is a very dangerous animal. It lives mainly in trees and hunts by jumping from them. I had the opportunity to take this picture very close. But the leopard was very angry with me and then I go

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Robert Pierce Butler Canada Nominee Wildlife Professional "Butterfly"

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Rotem Pushinsky USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "tiffany lamp"

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Sacha Ineichen Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Message" -

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Sara Lind USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Sea Turtle Portrait" Green Sea Turtle resting on coral reef, Puerta Galera, Phillipines

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Sara Lind USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dramatic Anemonefish" Crimson Anemonefish in its host anemone, Puerta Galera, Phillipines

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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Symbiose " A clown fish living a symbiotic relationship with its anemane

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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Professional "Speedster" A green turtle swimming in the deep of Mayotte lagoon Indian Ocean

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Serge Melesan France Nominee Wildlife Professional "The escort " Male whale called escort trying to get a female attention of female

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Shankar Subramanian India Nominee Wildlife Professional "Tiger in the Woods" Beauty amongst flowers ...the delicate and fragility of nature

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Sharon Packer USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Hover" Brilliance of the Hummingbird

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Stephen Hayes Ireland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Bellow" This image was captured in Killarney National Park during this year's rut.

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Steve Sorensen USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "I am the King" A king penguin enjoying a sunshine respite.

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Sue Dougherty USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Rainbows in a most unusual place" While photographing Brown bears in Katmai that eat 10's of pounds of fresh fatty salmon every day develop a condition called steatorrhea (fat stool), seen as brilliant reflective rainbow bubbles.

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Terje Skaare Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Flight" A foggy evening at the lake Sperillen in Norway

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Terje Skaare Norway Nominee Wildlife Professional "Snail #2"

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Tomoki Yamaya Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Family" Osprey parent and child. Her father diligently carries fish and takes care of the children.

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Valerie G Henry USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "No Turning Back" Two wild American Wild mustangs face off, battling for supremacy.

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Valerie G Henry USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Summer Shimmer" After following this wild beauty, she finally lifted her head and rewarded me.

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Walter Giordani USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Yellow" Yellow Jelly Fish

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Walter Giordani USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Condor #1" Condor, Colca Canyon, Peru

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Wildlife Professional "Riedscape" Riedscape

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Werner Branz Austria Nominee Wildlife Professional "Seagulls" Seagulls

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William King USA Nominee Wildlife Professional "Black Crowned Night Heron" Black Crowned Night Heron photographed during Sunrise at the Marine Park Salt Marsh Nature Center. Photographed with the SonyRX10M4, ISO2000, 1/50, f4.5, 1200mm focal length.

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Wolf Ademeit Germany Nominee Wildlife Professional "Orang Utan Portrait" This female orang utan died in a fire on new year's eve 2020/2021 in the primate house of the Krefeld zoo. 50 primates that I have photographed over the years died in this fire.

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dinner Time" Solomon Island Tree Boa eating bird chick for its dinner.

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Yosuke Tsuchida Japan Nominee Wildlife Professional "Split Tongue" Australian Woma python showing its split tongue.

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Yves Ryncki Switzerland Nominee Wildlife Professional "Dusk in Botswana" Elephants leaving fresh water before night in Botswana.

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Zig Koch Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Playing with water" this young monkey was looking at himself in the reflection and drinking water from the lake.

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Zig Koch Brazil Nominee Wildlife Professional "Reindeer" In northern Norway, reindeer are raised by the Sami people who migrate with them to find the best place to feed.

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