The winners of Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 have been introduced, and as all the time they’ve brightened up our day. Now in its eighth yr, the annual competitors has a number of classes, together with finest total, finest portrait, finest portfolio and finest video. There are additionally awards for particular forms of captures, together with birds in flight and chook behaviour.
Some 20,000 entries have been submitted, capturing the range of birds world wide and the dramatically totally different habitats they reside in. The total winner was a shot of a peregrine falcon attacking a brown pelican taken by Jack Zhi (see our decide of the very best cameras in case you’re impressed to take your individual photographs).
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Take the Bull by the Horns by Jack Zhi, the general winner of Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Glistening Green Nicolas Reusen’s picture of a glistening inexperienced tanager in Ecuador, gained finest portrait (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Best chook in flight, a sword-billed hummingbird photographed by Rafael Armada (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Sunflower Paradise by Mateusz Piesiak gained the birds within the atmosphere class (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Rachel Bigsby from the UK gained the Best Portfolio award (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Anton Trexler was named Young Bird Photographer of the Year (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Best black and white: Fascinating Droplet by Jason Moore (Image credit score: BPOTY)
Best city birds: A Moment of Prayer by Arto Leppänen (Image credit score: BPOTY)
The comedy chook picture class was gained by Antonio Aguti’s No Way Out (Image credit score: BPOTY)
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