Beautiful Bird Imagery from the 2023 Audubon Photography Awards

Rock Pigeons by Liron Gertsman/Audubon Pictures Awards/2023 Grand Prize Winner.
Location: White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
“Two pigeons deal with left in profile, each individual with one particular orange eye in see against a black background. 1 chicken is preening the other, its bill buried in gray, environmentally friendly, and purple iridescent feathers.”

Chinstrap Penguin by Karen Blackwood/Audubon Images Awards/2023 Beginner Winner
Spot: Near Esperanza Station in Cierva Cove, Antarctica
“A Chinstrap Penguin, wings outstretched, dives from an iceberg. Head down, its invoice is just about touching the water’s area. In the qualifications, a white and blue iceberg is capped with new white snow. Deeply etched traces on the iceberg’s sides surface like hashtags guiding the black fowl.”

Dunlin by Kieran Barlow/Audubon Images Awards/2023 Youth Winner
Area: Barnegat Gentle, New Jersey, Usa
“A sandpiper in profile seems to have jumped from the rocks to steer clear of an incoming wave. The bird’s wings are powering its entire body, its feet just higher than the rock in front of a qualifications of h2o droplets from the surf.”

Atlantic Puffin by Shane Kalyn/Audubon Images Awards/2023 Skilled Winner
Area: Westman Islands, Iceland
“An Atlantic Puffin sits on the edge of a craggy cliffside, its head turned to the still left, its white breast in sharp contrast to the gray history. Lime green algae and compact purple wildflowers drape the cliff, breaking up the usually darkish graphic.”

Baltimore Oriole by Sandra M. Rothenberg/Audubon Images Awards/2023 Feminine Bird Prize Winner
Location: Warren, PA, United states of america
“A shiny yellow feminine Baltimore Oriole with skinny light strands of grass held in her invoice perches at the end of a department and faces to the ideal in the body. The strands billow around her, slightly out of target, in entrance of a blurred green qualifications.”

Northern Hawk Owl by Liron Gertsman/Audubon Pictures Awards/2023 Experienced Honorable Point out
Place: Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada
“A Northern Hawk Owl appears to be straight into the digicam as it perches at the tip of a frost-coated tree. Dim pine cones on the bare branches stand out from a white qualifications, mirroring the sample of the owl’s darkish breast feathers.”

Tree Swallows and bald cypress by Vicki Santello/Audubon Photography Awards/2023 Vegetation For Birds Honorable Point out
Area: Atchafalaya Swamp, Louisiana, United states of america
“Thousands of Tree Swallows sit on two cypress snags in a swamp, looking like leaves. A person tree is bigger in the foreground and the other is scaled-down in the qualifications. Additional birds fly all around the trees, their dim types in contrast to the purple and blue sky.”

Reddish Egret by Nathan Arnold /Audubon Photography Awards/2023 Beginner Honorable Point out
Site: San Carlos Bay – Bunche Seaside Maintain, Fort Myers, Florida, United states
“A Reddish Egret stands in shallow drinking water in opposition to a blurred yellow track record, its physique experiencing remaining and its wings open up guiding it. A tiny fish and drinking water droplets are suspended in the air in front of the bird’s open up bill.”

Brown Pelican by Sunil Gopalan/Audubon Pictures Awards/2023 Fisher Prize Winner
Locale: Galapagos National Park, Ecuador
“A Brown Pelican at the leading of the body sits in the water, its wings pulled driving its entire body. In the dim h2o below is the crescent silhouette of a shark, its snout almost touching the pelican.”

Verdin and cane cholla by Linda Scher/Audubon Pictures Awards/2023 Plants For Birds Winner
Locale: Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona, Usa
“A gray Verdin with a yellow head and a tiny rust-coloured patch on its wing stands in profile on a broken cacti branch which is white, brown, and green. The chicken carries a pale green caterpillar in its monthly bill.”

Environmentally friendly-winged Teal by James Fatemi/Audubon Photography Awards/2023 Youth Honorable Mention
Site: Huntley Meadows Park, Alexandria, Virginia, United states
“A male Eco-friendly-winged Teal sits on prime of a woman in the water, his invoice showing to drive the female’s head down. His brown and environmentally friendly head stands out towards an or else gray qualifications with blurred snowflakes around the body.”