An impactful photo showing 4,000 birds that died from colliding with buildings has won Bird Photographer of the Year 2024.
Bird Photographer of the Year – An estimated 1.3 billion birds die each year in North America as a result of window collisions. Here, thousands of bodies are laid out at the Fatal Light Awareness Program in Toronto.| Patricia Homonylo / Bird Photographer of the Year
“I am a conservation photojournalist and have been working with the Fatal Light Awareness Program , where we save window-collision survivors in Toronto. Sadly, most of the birds we find are already dead. They are collected and at the end of the year, we create this impactful display to honour the lives lost and increase public awareness.
Bronze – An ill-fated Magellanic penguin is stalked by a southern sea lion off the Falkland Islands. | Tom Schandy / Bird Photographer of the YearGold – A grey-crowned rosy-finch perched on a branch in Homer, Alaska. | Alan Murphy / Bird Photographer of the Year Bronze – A brown booby takes off from the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. The photographer dived with two underwater flashes for the shot. | Suliman Alatiqi / Bird Photographer of the YearGold – A trio of northern gannets in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. | Kat Zhou / Bird Photographer of the Year
Bronze – Three wild turkeys photographed through a living room window in Minnesota. | Sparky Stensaas / Bird Photographer of the YearGold – An adélie penguin tobogganing on the ice in Antarctica. | Nadia Haq / Bird Photographer of the YearBronze – Helmetshrikes huddle together in South Africa. | Gary Collyer / Bird Photographer of the YearGold – A goosander crosses the road with her young in Poland.
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