The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards

[douglas9]

The winners of this year’s annual Audubon Photography Awards competition were recently announced. Photographers entered images in four categories: professional, amateur, youth, and plants for birds. More than 8,700 images depicting birdlife from all 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces and territories were judged. The National Audubon Society was once more kind enough to share some of this year’s winners and Top 100 images with us below.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2021/07/2021-audubon-photography-awards/619414/

[lark]

1. Thank you for sharing these gorgeous photos.

I was especially glad to see a picture of a Greater Grey Heron - those are the herons that were nesting 2 blocks over and now have a juvenile who is out of the nest. I knew it was a grey heron, but not the actual type until I saw the pix. Thanks!