John Rowden, senior director of bird-friendly communities, National Audubon Society Melissa Groo, wildlife photographer and winner of the 2015 contest’s Grand PrizeĪllen Murabayashi, chairman and co-founder, PhotoShelter Steve Freligh, publisher, Nature’s Best Photography Sabine Meyer, photography director, National Audubon Society Our heartfelt congratulations to the photographers behind these stunning shots, and thank you to all of the entrants for your truly remarkable appreciation of birds.
This year we also continue with two new awards introduced in 2019: The Fisher Prize, which recognizes an image that is as artistic as it is revealing, and the Plants for Birds category, which honors the top photographs illustrating the crucial relationship between native plants and birds.
In total, photographers from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and 7 Canadian provinces entered images that captured the creativity, wonder, and beauty of species small and large, terrestrial and aquatic. The thousands of submissions from nearly 1,800 entrants showed birdlife in all of its splendor. So, for our 11th annual awards, which saw more than 6,000 submissions, the judges assembled in an epic day-long Zoom meeting to winnow down the remaining pool to just the 10 winners and honorable mentions shown here.Īs always, the task was simultaneously unenviable and inspiring. But as with much of life in 2020, this year's awards had to be handled differently due to pandemic-related travel, work, and social-distancing restrictions. Every spring, the judges of the Audubon Photography Awards gather at Audubon's headquarters in Manhattan to review their favorite images and select the finalists.
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