Jeff Bullied Canada 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Wildlife Amateur "Antarctic Reverie" It was a crystal clear, crisp morning at Cuverville Island in Antarctica. I was in a Zodiac scouting with another guide. Thousands of Gentoo penguins were swimming back to the island from feeding. I w

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Jacqueline Burke USA 2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Wildlife Amateur "A Mother's Love" The photo was taken at the Mara North Conservancy in Kenya. Our safari group found a group of lionesses with their cubs, but it was very hot and they all were sleeping. We patiently waited until near dusk when the heat abated. The cubs then started to play and I was able to get this photo of a lioness with cubs of two different ages. I was captivated by the young cub; in the next frame it grabbed the tail of the older cub, but I preferred this frame due to the mischievous look on its face.

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Pratibha Reddy USA 3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Wildlife Amateur "Lions Lookout"

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Elliott Kagan USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Ready to Savor the Nectar" A Costa Rican Fruit Bat attracted to a plant nectar source

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Robin Zygelman USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Majestic Mandrill" A beautiful endangered Mandrill stands proud

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Steve Burkett USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Carnivores" A frozen bison is nourishment for coyote and ravens alike

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Michelle Nickerson USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Bird Warning" Keep off the dunes warns the gull as the storm rolls in

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Jacqueline Burke USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Speak No Evil" The photo was taken at the famed Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan. The species is the Japanese macaque, otherwise known as the snow monkey. I had envisioned obtaining photos of the monkeys in the ice and snow, but there was little snow and so I watched for opportunities to get in close. When this macaque put its hand over its mouth in a very human-like gesture, I know that I had the image that I desired.

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Sergio Villaschi USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Almost an embrace" Short-eared owl challanging a northern harrier for territory

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Liz Hardley New Zealand Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Monitor Lizards Wrestling"

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Lawrence Russ USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "From out of a Fairy Tale"

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Kamil Jureczko Australia Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Marine Reflections" Here’s a photo from my series, When You Look at the Ocean, the Ocean Looks Back at You, featuring close-ups of marine eyes. This one belongs to a shrimp, revealing details unseen by the naked eye.

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Eric von Schulthess Switzerland Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Milkyway Gobi Desert" this Milkyway I shot in the Gobi Desert. My technique is TRACKING - STACKING - BLENDING.

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Peter Hergesheimer USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Ha'uku'uku'ula'ula" I spotted this Slate Pencil Urchin on a dive along the Maui coast in Hawaii.

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Matthew S. Brown USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Brown Bear Sow and Cub nuzzle" A Brown Bear sow and cub nuzzle while fishing

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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Pettirosso"

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Zita Quentin USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Giraffe Before Sunrise" Giraffe drinking with the backdrop of Mt Shompole before sunrise.

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Denise Strauch Germany Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Icelandic Power" A powerful and mystical atmosphere. It was impressive with the horse in front of the giant Skógafoss.

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James Woodward USA Honorable Mention Wildlife Amateur "Exploring With Dad" Baby snail on back of adult snail exploring

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Ann-Mari Broman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sole"

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Heir To The Throne"

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Free Spirit"

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Anne Dignam USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Intense Focus"

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Anne Grosse-Leege Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Friesennerz"

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Arnold Plotnick USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Pigeon Attack" A bold pigeon in flight in a New York City park

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Barbara Beeman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Monmouth Street pigeon" Decay and a pigeon in blue

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Barbara Maker USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Tail Wind" Beauty from Behind

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Glaucous Gulls" As we cruised in a zodiac thru the ice floes around Svalbard we came across a couple of Glaucous Gulls on a small iceberg

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Halloween Pennant Dragonfly" A Halloween Pennant Dragonfly landed briefly enabling me to catch a quick shot

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Bill Klipp USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Vervet Monkey Baby" Vervet Monkeys A baby Vervet Monkey in Botswana's Okavango Delta takes a break from nursing to check us out

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Bob Shor USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Spotlight on Me" Green Cay Preserve, Delray Beach, Fl.

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Brendan Berryman Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bath Time "

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Brian Jones Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Steller's Sea Eagle"

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Bruce Gelvin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Wild Mustang Portrait" A portrait of a pensive wild mustang looking for a future

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Carlos Ramiro Thailand Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Leaf Mimic " A leaf-mimic grasshopper { Chorotypus Gallinaceus }. Nocturnal Orthoptera from the rainforest of Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

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Charita Carter USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Fox on the Prowl" California Red Fox hunting on Moonstone Beach

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Charles Mifsud Malta Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Fish in Colorful Marsaxlokk" A fish jumping out of the waters with the shimmering reflections of the colorful luzzu or Maltese b

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Charles Farlow USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Primeval Blue" A damselfly climbs a small stem in search of its prey. The photograph reveals different shades of blue on the insect's face and compound eyes.

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Cindy Crews USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Morning Breakfast" The Great Blue Heron having fun with his early morning breakfast. They toss, chomp and stab their fish until they are dead, then will go and wash it before eating.

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Cindy Crews USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bird Bath" The Sanderling is really enjoying his early morning bath.

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Claudio Bonaccorsi Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Asilide"

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Craig Klein USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "NM Scorpoin"

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Tuckin In"

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Dave Cohen USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Unstoppable"

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Deb Tatonetti USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Beach Buds"

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Denise Dethlefsen USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cheeky Moose" A bull moose appears to smile as he checks out the photographer

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Denise Strauch Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Illuminated" A very cloudy day. Suddenly sunrays breaking through the clouds and put the icelandic horse in spotlight.

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Diane Gelvin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Desert Dance" Following a cloud of dust I encounterd a herd of Wild Mustangs

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Dipan Das Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Kiss" A bit of PDA from two Gray-crowned Cranes

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Edward Mann USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Mom Searching" She's looking for the cubs she stashed away while she was hunting

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Elliott Kagan USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Victor with Battle Trophy" A leopard with a Thomson's Gazelle carcass safely out of range of other predators

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Erin Jacob New Zealand Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Pygmy Owl"

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Eunice Vasques Brazil Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Animals at Dunas do Rosado" This photo was taken at Dunas do Rosado, Brazil

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Franck Rouzes France Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Regard" Who's looking at who?

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Frank Proost Luxembourg Nominee Wildlife Amateur "It's Too Darn Hot" Warthog cooling off in the water

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G.G. Jolliffe Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Crested Pigeon " The colouring of the Pigeon is subtle but iridised, highlighted by straw yellow of the field behind.

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Gail Williams USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Narheeesist"

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Gail Karlsson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "World Trade Center Reflection in Duck Pond" A Mallard duck couple swimming through the reflections of buildings in lower Manhattan on a small pond in Battery Park City along the Hudson River.

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Gary Levy USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Nutcracker" Squirrel Eating a Nut

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Glenn Williams USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Behind the Window" A View from the Top

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Glenn Williams USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sunset" Curiosity in the Clouds

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Glenn Williams USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Monkeys Having Fun" A Casual Morning

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Gregory Hom USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Stars of the Sea" Star fish nestled in mussels

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Harvey Silber USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Thru A Frosted Window"

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Ira Dwoskin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Follow Mommy" Follow Mommy

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Jacqueline Burke USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Red-Headed Beauty" A red-crowned crane preens itself in Hokkaido, Japan. The red-crowned crane is an endangered species.

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Jacqueline Burke USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Demure Elegance" The red-crowned crane is a truly beautiful bird and it looks lovely against the snow in Hokkaido, Japan

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Jacqueline Burke USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Rockhopper Shower" A rockhopper penguin in the Falkland Islands rinses the seawater from its feathers in a freshwater spring after a day at sea fishing.

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James Meldrum USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Intensity"

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James Meldrum USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Attitude"

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James Alan McClean USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "What you looking at?!" Praying mantis showing as much curious interest in me as I toward the mantis.

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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bull Moose" Bull moose strolls across an alpine meadow at the beginning of the rut season. Four other bulls were in the area…but he had no challengers

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Jamie Johnston USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Whole Clan" A burrowing owl family portrait. Mom is to the left with a pattern on her chest. Her seven owlets to the right have a cream colored breast. Taken on the prairie in central Colorado.

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Janet Slater Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Lunch Time"

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Janet Geissler USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Lunch" A great egret fishing at a local wildlife refuge

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Janet MacCausland USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Fox Kits Playing in Sand, Cape Cod National Seashore" When the sun goes down, kits tumble and run all over the Cape Cod National Seashore.

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Janet MacCausland USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Mountain Sheep Moment" Two Bighorn bucks test each other's prowess in the mountains of Glacier National Park as the alpenglow signals the day's end. Observing them for a while, I timed my shutter release to capture the dec

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Ruby Throated Hummingbird" Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are bright emerald or golden-green on the back and crown, with gray-white underparts. Males have a brilliant iridescent red throat that looks dark when it’s not in good li

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Jeff Lucas Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hummingbird in Flight" The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is a small hummingbird with a slender, slightly downcurved bill and fairly short wings.

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Jeff Olson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Bird’s Eye"

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Jeff Olson USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sleeping With The Fishes"

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Jeffrey Andrews USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In Flight"

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Jennifer James USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Looking Good" Roseate Spoonbill and reflection at Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Tiny Fingers Tiny Toes"

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Jill Snyder USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Devil Threat"

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Jochen Maes Belgium Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Forlorn" I followed this cheetah for a while as it was walking across the bush. As it was on the verge of jumping up on to a tree; it gave a me a very brief glance and I was able to get this shot. The facial e

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Jochen Maes Belgium Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Symbiosis" Red-Billed Oxpecker and Cape Buffalo backlit by the early morning light.

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Joseph Lungaro Malta Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Broken Giant"

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Kamil Jureczko Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Watchful Ocean" Here's a photo from my series, When You Look at the Ocean, the Ocean Looks Back at You, featuring close-ups of marine eyes. This one belongs to a lizardfish, revealing details unseen by the naked eye.

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Kamil Jureczko Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Venomous Vision" Here’s a photo from my series, When You Look at the Ocean, the Ocean Looks Back at You, featuring close-ups of marine eyes. This one is from a venomous cone snail, revealing hidden details.

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Kanji Imai Japan Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Twilight in the Kinko Bay" Swarms of octopus jellyfish appear in the long waterways of Kinko Bay, in the city of Kagoshima, Japan. Wild life to be seen in an urban area with a population of about 600,000.

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Keith Manning USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Ready For Takeoff" Blue Heron begins its hunt for breakfast

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Lawrence Russ USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The Family Fish-Winner Leaves for Work"

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Lawrence Russ USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Seagull Fracas"

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Leslie Goldman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Nectar of the Gods" Pollinator Garden, Greenspring Valley, MD 2024

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Linda Trummer Napolitano USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Morning bugle" Bull Elk bugling in early morning in Yellowstone

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Luciano Leuzzi Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "The end" un falco di palude femmina che preda un pullo di gabbiano e viene inseguito dagli adulti nel vano tentativo di farlo desistere

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Marianna Armata Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Fly blowing a bubble"

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Marina Onken USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Up, Up and Away--TWA"

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Martha Ture USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Barn Swallows Feeding" A barn swallow feeds her chick on the fly; the juvenile swallows the mother's mouth and all its contents

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Masaru Takagi Japan Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Ring-tailed lemur" Taken at dusk in winter.

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Massimo Profeti Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Kaleidoskorpionfish" Lying on a wreck in Sudan I found a not-so-mimetic Skorpionfish

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Matthew DeZee USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Osprey"

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Matthew S. Brown USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Moose reflection" Alaskan Moose grazing in the water

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Michael Hills USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Valley of Fire Sheep" A young Big Horn sheep in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

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Michael Hills USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Lookout" A juvenile big horn sheep in Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada

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Michael Rausch USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cliff Swallows" Using mud to build their nests, the swallows put together a complex multi-family residence.

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Michael Pachis USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Ant Bee" Ant and bee compete for the same resources

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Mik Rossi Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Fish Eye view" The real fish eye courtesy of a wild croc in Singapore strait

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Nancy Chadwick USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Duo" Endangered Reticulated Giraffe in the Lewa Conservancy in Kenya

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Neil Hunter USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Perched in Song"

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Norman Robbins USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Shy" Shy Spoonbill at Wakodahatchee

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Olav-Inge Alfheim Norway Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Lion mother and kid II" Ngoro Ngoro Tanzania 2024

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Pamela Powell USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Curious Cow" More curious than hungry?

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Paula Taylor USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Blooming Bird" Malachite Kingfisher having a rest in the Lily Field on the Chobi River in Botswana

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Paula Taylor USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Royalty" This royal elephant showed his best side for the golden light as he took in the evening sunset on the Chobi River.

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Pratibha Reddy USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Observer"

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Rebecca Waters USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "You Looking At Me?" A long tailed monkey spy on Bromo Tengger Volcano.

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Roberto Ciocchetti Italy Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Vanessas' journey" The photo was taken in July 2024 in Italy. It portrays a specimen of Vanessa cardui that has just la

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Romy Klein USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Flamingo"

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Romy Klein USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Antartica"

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Ronaldo Andrade Brazil Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Colhereiro" Colhereiro - Roseate Spoonbill - fotografado no Pantanal Matrogrossense - Brasil

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Ronaldo Andrade Brazil Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Jaguarete" Jaguaretê - Onça Pintada - Jaguar - fotografada no Pantanal Matogrossense - Brasil

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Sergio Villaschi USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Paternal love" A male cardinal feeding a juvenile.

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Seta Karabadjian Canada Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Camargue Horse"

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Sheryl Falkos USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Burrowing Owls in the Sun" Love photographing these protected birds. These are from Cape Coral, Florida, USA.

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Sonal Shah USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Call of the Wild Geese" Lake Tahoe

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Stacie Acevedo USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Graceful Hunt"

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Stacie Acevedo USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Morning Majesty"

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Steve Majsak USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Cactus Owl" Great Horned Owl Perched on an Arizona Cactus; Its family made a nest in a hollowed-out cactus.

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "An Otterly Fine Day" A multitude of river otters having a tremendous outing. Actually, it's three otters caught in various places of play over a half-hour time frame, and then collaged together in their exact positions.

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Backoff" This bison’s stare…it’s mesmerizing! This is his territory...let’s back off as he is nuzzling down for elusive grass.

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Claws Out!!!" Two grizzlies in a snow storm having a go at it! All was in play as friends. I felt exhilarated in watching them play-wrestling for over ten minutes.

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Dinner to Go" A bighorn sheep has his dinner on the go

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Steve Burkett USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sly" This Yellowstone fox in the wilds of Yellowstone is a sly beauty.

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Steven Hauptman USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Pecking Order" In the bird world the expression of Pecking Order sometimes exists between birds

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Suzanne Anton USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Hope" Never lose hope

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Suzi Lonergan USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "In Town For The Holiday" Families stroll through Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming on a July 4th holiday weekend.

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Tailai OBrien Australia Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Inti Bird" Portrait of Inti Bird a 19 year old double yellow headed amazon

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sueno De Paz" He is the only Paso Fino Cremello stallion that is producing gaited foals Palominos and Buckskin.

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Viveca Venegas Puerto Rico Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Indian Peacock" Peacocks are one of the most gorgeous and colourful birds. This is one of mine.

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Wolfgang Moeller Germany Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Jaguar mother with cub" Jaguar mother with cub in Pantanal river

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Xavier Mas Ferra Spain Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Sharks" Two blue sharks photographed in the Cantabrian Sea

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Yee Chin Fen Steven Singapore Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Zebras" Fighting zebras

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Zita Quentin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Giraffes Drinking" Giraffes are very vulnerable when they are drinking. It was a special sighting watching a group of them drink at the watering hole.

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Zita Quentin USA Nominee Wildlife Amateur "Jaguar Portrait" Female jaguar giving us a look on the shore of the Cuiaba River.

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