“Blackburnian Warbler” by Mathew Malwitz, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Grand Prize Winner. Promised Land State Park, Pennsylvania, USA
2024 marks the 15th year of the annual Audubon Photography Awards, which garnered over 2,300 entrants from all 50 states, Washington D.C., and 10 areas in Canada. Highlighting a wide range of skills from youth photographers to professional photojournalists, each image reveals the distinctive beauty of birds. From a Forster Tern spiraling through the air to a Sedge Wren grasping two long stems as if they were stilts, everyday spectacles are masterfully captured in high resolution.
New this year, the Birds in Landscapes Prize showcases the relationship between avians and their environments. Kevin Lohman’s “California Quail” won this special division, capturing the feathered creature perched atop a small bush in a lush West Coast field.
Winning photographers will be featured in the Summer 2024 edition of Audubon magazine, and in the meantime, you can find our favorite images below and delve into the full collection on the contest’s website.
“Black-capped Chickadee and Broad-leaf Cattail” by Linda Scher, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Plants For Birds Winner. Wood Lake Nature Center, Richfield, Minnesota, USA
“Great-tailed Grackle” by Tristan Vratil, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Amateur Winner. Corner of Slaughter Lane and Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas, USA
“Forster’s Tern” by Kevin Lohman, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Professional Honorable Mention. Shoreline Lake, Mountain View, California, USA
“California Quail” by Kevin Lohman, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Birds in Landscapes Prize Winner. Santa Cruz, California, USA
“Sedge Wren and Gray-head Coneflower” by Trisha Snider, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Plants For Birds Honorable Mention. John E Pearce Provincial Park, Wallacetown, Ontario, Canada
“Wild Turkey” by Travis Potter, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Female Bird Prize Winner. Travis Potter/Audubon Photography Awards/2024 Female Bird Prize Winner
“Red-necked Grebe” by Edwin Liu, Audubon Photography Awards, 2024 Youth Honorable Mention. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Etobicoke, ON, Canada
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