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Wings of Wonder: 35 Spectacular Winners From the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026

Bird photography has a way of making you stop scrolling. One second you’re looking at a bird, and the next you’re staring at a tiny piece of wild magic frozen in time. That’s exact...

Three Photos: Fairy Pitta

Photos taken by Kai Pflug at Nanhui, Shanghai, on Sep 21, 2026

The Bird Photo I Could Use Was Not The Bird Photo I Wanted

By Jihun Oh Jihun is a Korean developer and the creator of KoreAves, an English-first evidence atlas for birds recorded in South Korea. The project connects species, regional recor...

The Majesty of Birds: 28 Remarkable Photos from the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

There’s a way in which birds make the ordinary seem truly magical: one moment a small songbird is sitting quietly on a branch and the next a raptor is slicing through the sky as if...

Three Photos: Pencil Drawings

White-crowned Forktail Chinese Barbet Eurasian Jay Drawings by JW

Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 winners: the competition’s best shots, from a moonlit owl to a diving gannet

More than 24,000 images entered the world's largest bird photography competition. Here are some of the standout winners.

Revealed: The Bird Photographer of the Year winners - and the images that flew to the top slots

A British photographer has claimed the £3,000 prize money this year with an extraordinary submission from under water.

Flying away from a loud bang

In mid-April I was still hoping for a decent spring migration. The palm warblers were still hanging around in big numbers. They spend the winter here. This guy was already getting...

Three Photos: Camouflage

Photos of Oriental Scops Owl taken by Kai Pflug at Nanhui, Shanghai on Oct 02, 2026

The Black-and-White Birds of North America

You can find black-and-white birds everywhere. If you live out west, heading to the grocery store often means seeing at least one Black-billed Magpie. And in the east, looking out...

Beholding a Jewel

Chris Gooddie describes them as “the ultimate forest prize” – and this couldn’t be a more apt description of members of one of the most reclusive families of birds in the Great Eas...

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Ice, wings, and a winning shot: Inside the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

Jacqueline Burke's Roseate Spoonbill won the Grand Prize in this year's Audubon Photography Awards, part of a full slate of category winners from across the Americas.

Birding Shanghai in September 2026

I completely missed the spring migration season in Shanghai in 2026. Then I read about the Black Paradise Flycatcher breeding in Jeju (see this profile), so I was glad to see the s...

Sulawesi’s Tiny Forest Jewel

By Anupam Dutta Anupam is a Kolkata-based wildlife photographer and writer with a special interest in birds and their habitats. He is also a technology and business professional an...

Butterflies, birds and blooms

I hadn’t been to Chinsegut Wildlife Area in Brooksville in over a year. I was hoping to see some migrating birds but since this year has been mostly a bust that didn’t happen. It w...

Avian Beauties and Rarities Top the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards

Audubon Photography Awards runs parallel opportunities for photographers in the U.S. and Canada and in Chile and Colombia. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

What a hoot: 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year winners

Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest

This year, the competition welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and...

A Selection of East African Sunbirds

The biweekly reminder on my phone “10,000 Birds” generally equates to a routine (but much appreciated) conundrum of what can be shared that is interesting enough, bird-related, and...

Blooms and birds in the yard

It was late March and this was the first time the philodendrons have bloomed in the backyard in the almost 5 years we have lived here. So many other plants were also blooming. Litt...

Feathered Wonders! 25 Outstanding Photos From the 2026 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards

Some of the most incredible bird photography of 2026 has just been revealed, and trust us, these feathered beauties are ready to steal the show! From breathtaking birds in flight t...

Three Photos: Endemic Birds of Northern Peru

Long-whiskered Owlet Marvelous Spatuletail Scarlet-banded Barbet Photos by Pablo Romo of Ikamexpeditions.

Not Just Another Bulbul

I’ve been reading a bit about bird and flower motifs – specifically those involving roses and nightingales – a curious path to take given that I’ve never seen a nightingale, nor do...