Bird on a wire and other winning photos

The representation was taken successful Toronto and bushed much than 23,000 entries to assertion the prize.

The photograph shows much than 4,000 birds that died colliding with windows and different reflective surfaces successful the city.

“Each twelvemonth much than 1 cardinal birds dice successful North America unsocial owed to collisions with windows,” says Homonylo.

“I americium a conservation photojournalist and person been moving with the Fatal Light Awareness Program, wherever we prevention window-collision survivors successful Toronto.

"Sadly, astir of the birds we find are already dead.

"They are collected and astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth we make this impactful show to honour the lives mislaid and summation nationalist awareness.”

Homonylo's introduction was besides among the winners selected for the Conservation (Single Image) category.

The Young Bird Photographer of the Year 2024 was awarded to 14-year-old Spanish lensman Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco for his originative space connected a nuthatch scrambling down an oak tree.

Photographers competed successful a 8 of antithetic categories successful the big competition, including a Conservation Award, Portfolio Award, and Video Award.

Here is simply a enactment of the pictures that were awarded a gold, metallic oregon bronze, with descriptions by the photographers.

"This Peregrine Falcon fledgling had been flying for implicit a week and his skills had improved by the day.

"While helium inactive took nutrient from parents, helium had started to practise his hunting skills.

"He was not bully capable to drawback unrecorded birds successful the aerial yet, truthful helium took babe steps by chasing a fluttering butterfly.

"I person been photographing peregrines for years, and this was the archetypal clip I person seen fledglings play with butterflies."

"For respective weeks each year, Black Grouse stitchery astatine [the] leks connected outpouring mornings for courtship and display.

"The males travel down, each claiming their patch, and walk a mates of hours sizing each different up, charging astatine each other, engaging successful mostly mock battles.

"Sometimes, however, the encounters escalate to existent fights.

"The heated enactment of a solitary combatant is steaming successful the acold air, which I captured portion sitting wrong a tiny photography hide, revelling successful the sounds and sights of this past play."

"In the dormant of winter, I marvel astatine the aerial ballet of the plot birds that travel to sojourn my trees and to instrumentality vantage of the seeds that I enactment retired for them.

"Discreetly hidden, I tried to immortalise their formation and its delicate way utilizing a flash and camera successful ‘rear curtain’ mode.

"Hundreds of shots were required earlier I captured the cleanable moment, which portrayed the fleeting magic of quality successful winter."

"Here we spot a trio of bluish gannets diving into the water connected a sunny time successful Shetland. .

"The taxon is Scotland’s largest seabird, and they are remarkably adept successful the water, with the quality to dive to depths arsenic acold arsenic 22 metres.

"I took this photograph portion scuba diving from a vessel adjacent Noss, which is location to the UK’s seventh largest colony of bluish gannets.

"In the past the colonisation has been estimated astatine astir 25,000 birds, though their numbers were unluckily severely reduced by the avian flu outbreak.

"It is unclear when, oregon if, their colonisation volition beryllium capable to recover. Dead herring from a section herring fishery were utilized to pull the birds to the boat."

"This photograph shows a hoary-headed grebe arsenic it disappears beneath the aboveground of the h2o to feed, pushing into the depths with its immense paddle-like feet.

"I took the representation from a raised level precocious supra the wetland.

"With a small spot of imagination, the operation of vertebrate and ripples look similar the caput of a hippo."

"We were connected a safari, and returning to campy successful Sabi Sands, South Africa, connected a acheronian March evening.

"We stopped, having picked up immoderate antithetic sounds, though unsure what they were.

"Then we heard chattering and fluttering precocious supra us.

"When illuminated with the lamp connected the vehicle, we saw these helmetshrikes huddling unneurotic against a nighttime that was starting to crook colder."

"Goosanders breed successful the parkland astir 1 kilometre from Poland’s life-giving River Vistula.

"Each parent has to determination her brood to the stream arsenic rapidly arsenic imaginable owed to deficiency of nutrient and information successful the park.

"They marque the travel done a bid of underground passages and implicit a six-lane highway.

"Each twelvemonth a radical of volunteers assistance them transverse this deadly roadworthy by stopping the traffic.

"This representation shows a parent goosander crossing a smaller roadworthy due to the fact that she decided not to usage the scary and acheronian underground transition beneath it."

"This poignant representation captures the harsh world successful 1 of Bali’s vertebrate markets.

"The brace of lovebirds look each different successful abstracted cages, appearing to accidental their last farewells, not knowing if they volition spot each different again.

"Who knows what joys they would person experienced unneurotic successful their lush autochthonal rainforests and whether they volition ever acquisition that again.

"Their soundless transportation transcends carnal barriers, emphasising the analyzable enactment betwixt yearning for state and the impulse to flight from captivity for quality pleasure."

"I took this photograph connected a beauteous formation connected the Baltic Sea.

"There are a fig of waders and different birds here, but besides galore visitors who bask the beauteous landscape.

"In this lawsuit determination was besides a canine who initially did not announcement the grey plover. The grey plover, however, did announcement the canine and flew distant soon aft I took the photo.

"While I bash not judge this incidental greatly stressed the bird, it is important to admit the imaginable interaction of quality enactment and tourism connected protected taxon and their habitats."

"Lake Federsee is simply a celebrated wintering country for galore migratory birds.

"From November to March, Eurasian bitterns are predominant visitors to this lake.

"As soon arsenic the water freezes over, these uncommon birds retreat to trenches done the reeds.

"Surprisingly, this idiosyncratic was precise adjacent to the boardwalk that leads done the quality reserve.

"From there, I could easy ticker its sportfishing run and instrumentality galore photos."