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Photos taken before the contest period are allowed. In other words, feel free to upload your best work. If you've previously published the photo (for example, posting to social media or eBird), you may be contacted to complete an additional step to make sure you're the same person who published it elsewhere. Photos must depict wild birds. Pets ...
Wikimedia New York City ran a bird photography contest with the Brooklyn Bird Club in fall 2022. We received 321 entries, and we're excited to share the results! For more information about the contest, see the main contest page.
Extraordinary images from this year’s Bird Photographer of the Year award showcase the beauty of birds. Fierce falcon photo takes top prize in bird photography contest Skip to main content
Larks are the only passerines that lose all their feathers in their first moult (in all species whose first moult is known). This may result from the poor quality of the chicks' feathers, which in turn may result from the benefits to the parents of switching the young to a lower-quality diet (seeds), which requires less work from the parents. [14]
The feathers making up this disc can be adjusted to sharply focus sounds from varying distances onto the owls' asymmetrically placed ear cavities. Most birds of prey have eyes on the sides of their heads, but the stereoscopic nature of the owl's forward-facing eyes permits the greater sense of depth perception necessary for low-light hunting.
A hoopoe was a leader of the birds in the Persian book of poems The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-Tayr by Attar) and when the birds seek a king, the hoopoe points out that the Simurgh was the king of the birds. [34] Hoopoes were thought of as thieves across much of Europe, and harbingers of war in Scandinavia. [35]
The competition, which runs until 31 December, is open to amateur photographers.
Notable features in the male include a long, metallic green crest, coppery feathers on the back and neck, and a prominent white rump that is most visible when the bird is in flight. The tail feathers of the male are uniformly rufous, becoming darker towards the tips, whereas the lower tail coverts of females are white, barred with black and red.