Selections From the 2024 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100 (2024)

Neotropic Cormorant. The spiny fish has to go into the cormorant’s throat in just the right way: head first and lengthwise. This bird was tossing this fish in the air for more than an hour to put it on the right trajectory. Photo taken from a boat in Encontro das Águas State Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil. #

Turgay Uzer / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Pileated Woodpecker. Pileated woodpecker parents perch on either side of a nest hole in a dead tree, with at least three chicks inside. Photographed in Dunedin, Florida. #

Jan Nickols / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Anna’s Hummingbird. In Port Townsend, Washington, an Anna’s hummingbird sips from a spray of water droplets above a water fountain. #

Soo Baus / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Burrowing Owl. Three burrowing owls peer over the top of a mound of dirt in Calipatria, California. #

Paulette Donnellon / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Grasshopper Sparrow. A grasshopper sparrow perches in a chain-link fence. Photographed in Highgate, Vermont. #

Matthew Bode / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Great Black-backed Gull. A close view of a gull at sunset in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. #

Eaton Ekarintaragun / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Red-crowned Crane. A pair of cranes dance in the snow at the Tsurui-Ito Crane Sanctuary in Hokkaido, Japan. #

Michele McCormick / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Western Grebe. A western grebe mother swims as three chicks lean forward while riding on her back in Escondido, California. #

Krisztina Scheeff / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Purple Martin. Thousands of small purple martins fill the frame in a loose spiral against a dark blue sky at dusk in Nashville, Tennessee. #

Graham Gerdeman / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

King Penguin. An immense colony of fuzzy brown king penguin chicks congregates on the shore of South Georgia Island. #

Syler Peralta-Ramos / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Great Horned Owl. A great horned owl perches atop a bare tree branch in West Gardiner, Maine. #

Kshanti Greene / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Hooded Merganser. This hooded merganser swims in Mallard Lake in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, grasping a crawfish in its bill. #

Kenneth Lui / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Northern Flicker. A northern flicker stretches out its wings while preening on a fence post in Corunna, Ontario, Canada. #

Shaun Antle / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Variable Oystercatcher. A variable oystercatcher walks through a field of bunny tail grass in Tawharanui Regional Reserve, New Zealand. #

Steffen Foerster / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Great Frigatebird. A close view of the bill and inflatable gular pouch of a great frigatebird. Photographed on Genovesa Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. #

Liron Gertsman / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Canada Goose. A pair of goslings run toward an adult Canada goose in Alexandria, Virginia. #

James Fatemi / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Osprey and Brown Pelican. A brown pelican swims with an osprey partially trapped in its bill and gular pouch. Photographed at Sebastian Inlet State Park in Sebastian, Florida. #

Phil Seu / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Ruby-throated Hummingbird. A ruby-throated hummingbird feeds on a bright red flower in Pembroke, Virginia. #

Raul Zabala Belenguer / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Greater and Lesser Prairie-Chicken. A pair of prairie-chickens fight outside of Hays, Kansas. #

Mike Timmons / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Red-winged Blackbird. A red-winged blackbird sings while perched on an orange hibiscus stem in Alexandria, Virginia. #

James Fatemi / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Snow Goose. In Mount Vernon, Washington, a flock of snow geese takes flight. #

Yoshiki Nakamura / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Purplish Jay. A purplish jay stands on the back of a brocket deer, acting as a cleaner, searching for ticks and other tidbits. Photographed in Poconé in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. #

Kyle Lloyd Arpke / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

American Avocet. In Salem, Utah, an American avocet is photographed in profile as it stretches. #

Asher Lee / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Bald Eagle. A juvenile bald eagle flies through a foggy sky at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Ridgefield, Washington. #

Dana Beasley / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards

Great Blue Heron. A great blue heron fishes at Izaak Walton Nature Area at sunset. Photographed in November 2023 in Longmont, Colorado. #

Kort Duce / 2024 Audubon Photography Awards