Audubon Photography Awards Expands with 2025 Winners

NEW YORK / SANTIAGO / BOGOTA (September 17, 2025) – Today the National Audubon Society introduced the winners of the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards. Now in its sixteenth yr, the awards have expanded to Chile and Colombia with new prizes specializing in migratory species, habitats, and conservation—all whereas persevering with to function gorgeous imagery that highlights the sweetness and pleasure of birds and interesting avian behaviors.  

For the primary time, judges awarded 9 prizes to residents of Chile and Colombia, together with eight prizes awarded to residents of the United States and Canada. This yr additionally introduced the brand new Birds Without Borders Prize, depicting birds with migratory paths that cross worldwide boundaries, and the Conservation Prize, illustrating conservation challenges that birds face or methods addressing these challenges may help them thrive. Previously featured prizes—such because the Grand Prize, Birds in Landscapes Prize, Youth Prize, Plants for Birds Prize, Female Bird Prize, and Video Prize—had been additionally awarded this yr. Two separate panels judged entries anonymously and chosen the winners and honorable mentions for his or her respective areas. 

Prizes for U.S. and Canada Residents

• Grand Prize
• Youth Prize
• Video Prize
• Female Bird Prize
• Plants for Birds Prize
• Birds Without Borders Prize
• Birds in Landscapes Prize
• Conservation Prize

Prizes for Chile and Colombia Residents*

• Grand Prize
• Youth Prize
• Video Prize
• Birds Without Borders Prize
• Conservation Prize
• Plants for Birds Prize, Colombia 
• Birds in Landscapes Prize, Colombia
• Birds in Landscapes Prize, Chile
• Coastal Birds Prize, Chile

*Country-specific prizes are open to residents of each Chile and Colombia. 

Chile and Colombia are dwelling to a few of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes and seascapes. Many of the birds that migrate between these vibrant nations and Canada and the United States are susceptible to extinction attributable to local weather change—together with species featured on this yr’s Audubon Photography Awards just like the Royal Tern, Snow Goose, and Blackburnian Warbler. Audubon works to guard these birds from the twin crises of local weather change and biodiversity loss by way of coordinated efforts throughout nations and areas to make sure their survival year-round. This yr’s Audubon Photography Awards helps inform the story of hemispheric chook conservation and highlights how birds join folks throughout geographies and ecosystems. 

Winners and honorable mentions are revealed on-line in Audubon journal and might be featured within the Fall 2025 print concern. The annual Top 100 and extra choose photographs and movies can even be shared in digital galleries promoted on Audubon’s web site.  

The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards will open for entries on January 15, 2026. Visit Audubon’s web site for particulars on the Chile and Colombia and U.S. and Canada contests, in addition to details about Audubon Americas and Audubon’s Plants for Birds program.   

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About Audubon  
The National Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation group that protects birds and the locations they want right now and tomorrow. We work all through the Americas in the direction of a future the place birds thrive as a result of Audubon is a strong, numerous, and ever-growing power for conservation. Audubon has greater than 700 employees working throughout the hemisphere and greater than 1.5 million energetic supporters. North America has misplaced three billion birds since 1970, and greater than 500 chook species are vulnerable to extinction throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Birds act as early warning programs concerning the well being of our surroundings, and so they inform us that birds – and our planet – are in disaster. Together as one Audubon, we’re working to change the course of local weather change and habitat loss, resulting in more healthy chook populations and reversing present developments in biodiversity loss. We do that by implementing on-the-ground conservation, partnering with native communities, influencing public and company coverage, and constructing group. Learn extra at www.audubon.org and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety. 

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