Avian Beauties and Rarities Top the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards
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The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards celebrated an array of avian wonders and rarities, showcasing the beauty and diversity of birds worldwide. Francisco Castro Escobar's photograph of a rare lesser horned owl, or "the ghost of the desert," in northern Chile earned the grand prize for the Chile/Colombia contest. Jacqueline Burke captured the North American grand prize with a striking image of a roseate spoonbill bathing against the shadowy cove in Florida.
Notable winners included Rodrigo González Pairoa for the Birds Without Borders category, capturing a black-browed albatross in Chile's Almirantazgo Fjord, and Josh Galicki, whose photo of northern gannets in Shetland Islands highlighted the threat of fishing nets to birds' nests. The contest's varied categories cover plants for birds, youth, conservation, and birds in landscapes, revealing human impacts on avian habitats through images of nesting gannets, hummingbirds, and the yellow-eared parrot.
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