2025 BirdLife Australia Pictures Awards winners introduced

Preening One’s Feathers by Angela Farnsworth, winner of the inaugural BirdLife Photographer of the Year. © Angela Farnsworth.

According to this 12 months’s judges, the picture stood out as a result of it’s completely composed, with the darkish tones within the feathers by no means shedding element and contains a much-maligned Australian hen. Angela will obtain the grand prize of a Nikon Z 8 digicam valued at $7,449 RRP. Individual class winners had been as follows:
Backyard Birds – Jen Ton for a shot of a Noisy Friarbird on a gate, titled Life imitating artwork;
Bird Behaviour – Louie Owen for an image of two Caspian Tern chicks combating over a fish, titled Sibling Rivalry;
Birds in Fight – Milind Gupte for Wings of Grace, a photograph of a Plumed Egret in flight in opposition to a smooth, overcast sky;
Human Impact – Sue Harper for Line dancing, a tele shot exhibiting a Pied Oystercatcher struggling futilely to flee a fishing line that was entangled round its leg;
Birds within the Landscape – JakeWilton for a vertical shot of a Southern Cassowary strolling alongside a rainforest creek, titled Rainforest Wanderer;
Bird Portrait – Preening One’s Feathers by Angela Farnsworth, who was additionally declared BirdLife Photographer of the Year;
Special Theme: Diurnal Raptors – Howard Loosemore with a shot of a White-bellied Sea Eagle fishing, titled White Bellied Thunder;
Youth – Spencer Hitchen’s profitable picture, I really like Glossies reveals a Glossy Black-Cockatoo consuming at an area waterhole.
Portfolio Winner – Donald Chin with a sequence of images titled The struggle for survival – Australian Fairy Tern.

Winners of particular person classes (proven above) will every obtain $1,000; the Portfolio Prize winner takes dwelling $2,000. The competitors is sponsored by Nikon Australia and the Lake Cowal Foundation. Click here to view the winners’ gallery.