Silver: "Majesty" by Åsmund Keilen
A majestic golden eagle drifts in dark silhouette across the face of the moon, its outstretched wings cutting a powerful shape through silver light. Below, winter-clad peaks rise in quiet stillness, their frozen ridges layered through in-camera multiple exposure to shape the visual expression I envisioned. The composition feels both graphic and atmospheric-a meeting of shadow and glow, strength and silence. Suspended against the luminous moon, the eagle becomes a timeless presence in the cold, breathless vastness of the alpine night.
Credit: © Åsmund Keilen / Bird Photographer of the Year Åsmund Keilen
A majestic golden eagle drifts in dark silhouette across the face of the moon, its outstretched wings cutting a powerful shape through silver light. Below, winter-clad peaks rise in quiet stillness, their frozen ridges layered through in-camera multiple exposure to shape the visual expression I envisioned. The composition feels both graphic and atmospheric-a meeting of shadow and glow, strength and silence. Suspended against the luminous moon, the eagle becomes a timeless presence in the cold, breathless vastness of the alpine night.
Credit: © Åsmund Keilen / Bird Photographer of the Year Åsmund Keilen
The winner of the world's largest bird photography competition showcases a northern gannet in hunting mode, shot with a full-frame mirrorless camera and fisheye lens. | Credit: © Henley Spiers / Bird Photographer of the Year
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Photographer captures species capable of diving at up to 86 km/ph – faster than Olympic divers – his image 'Sunball Rocket' just won the grand prize in the world's largest bird photography competition
Gold: "Alter Ego" by Gianluca Damiani
Great cities are extremely complex habitats. Attracted by the great amount of food resources the yellow-legged seagulls (Larus michahellis) live within Rome from many years. The tall buildings are for the seagulls as the cliffs on the sea and represent perfect nesting structures. I had a seagull colony on the roof of my house, and I had time to study their behaviour and preferred perches in order to get this picture. Moreover, some people of my neighborhood used to feed birds on the roof since COVI-19 lockdown. I had time then to put a removable sticker on the wall, to wait for the arrival of one of the gulls.
Credit: Gianluca Damiani / Bird Photographer of the Year
Great cities are extremely complex habitats. Attracted by the great amount of food resources the yellow-legged seagulls (Larus michahellis) live within Rome from many years. The tall buildings are for the seagulls as the cliffs on the sea and represent perfect nesting structures. I had a seagull colony on the roof of my house, and I had time to study their behaviour and preferred perches in order to get this picture. Moreover, some people of my neighborhood used to feed birds on the roof since COVI-19 lockdown. I had time then to put a removable sticker on the wall, to wait for the arrival of one of the gulls.
Credit: Gianluca Damiani / Bird Photographer of the Year
Gold: "An Ostrich Horizon" by Rahul SachdevAn ostrich makes its way towards the dry lake bed of Amboseli. In black and white, the stark landscape emphasizes the bird's solitary journey across the dust and heat.Credit: Rahul Sachdev / Bird Photographer of the Year Rahul Sachdev
Silver: "Patterns" by Alex Pansier
Captured in March 2025 on Hornøya, this image reveals a mesmerizing swarm of guillemots in flight. What first appears as an Escher-like illusion is nature's own design—organized chaos in motion. The sky becomes a canvas of repetition and rhythm, where the boundaries between order and disorder dissolve before your eyes.
Credit: Alex Pansier / Bird Photographer of the Year Alex Pansier
Captured in March 2025 on Hornøya, this image reveals a mesmerizing swarm of guillemots in flight. What first appears as an Escher-like illusion is nature's own design—organized chaos in motion. The sky becomes a canvas of repetition and rhythm, where the boundaries between order and disorder dissolve before your eyes.
Credit: Alex Pansier / Bird Photographer of the Year Alex Pansier
Gold: "Eye-to-Eye with a Short-Eared Owl" by Ivan Sjögren
A short-eared owl courses over the salt marshes of British Columbia's Fraser River Delta. This was a magical evening, with five owls feeding around me as dusk fell. I witnessed both fights between owls and, later, displays in which they clapped their wings together. I took this photo by positioning myself strategically, hunkering down in the grass after anticipating the owls' hunting routes. I was lucky that the owl turned its head to look at me as it passed silently by.
Credit: © Ivan Sjögren / Bird Photographer of the Year Ivan Sjögren
SILVER - Urban Birds - Deception's Hope. This picture was taken on Deception Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. Many disasters happen on Deception Island. Home of a fur seal trade leading to an almost extinction of seals, a whaling station, and then many volcanic eruptions leading to the destruction of scientific stations, this island looks like it is cursed. But since then, Nature has taken back its rights, like these gentoo penguins posing in front of a rusty whale blubber warehouse like guards. It gives a bit of Hope in Deception. I took the picture during a sailboat expedition to Antarctica.
Best Portrait
Gold: "Radiant" by Thomas Deliberto
A male greater sage-grouse during its courtship display. As the sun was rising over the shadowed sagebrush hill behind him, it illuminated the bird's tail feathers such that they appeared to radiate light. I was fortunate to visit a sage-grouse lek, an area in which the birds congregate to mate. Arriving at the lek before sunrise, I crouched behind some rocks, facing east to get a backlit photo of a male. As the sun rose above the hill behind the lek, I was able to capture this male in full display. Greater Sage-Grouse are the largest native grouse in North America. As their name implies, these birds are intimately tied to the sagebrush ecosystems of the Intermountain West. Their populations in recent years have declined precipitously due to a loss of habitat.
Credit: © Thomas Deliberto / Bird Photographer of the Year Thomas DeLiberto
Credit: © Thomas Deliberto / Bird Photographer of the Year Thomas DeLiberto
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