“Bird Photographer of the Year”: a journalist won a contest with a picture of 4,000 dead birds

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Canadian journalist Patricia Homonilo won the “Bird Photographer of the Year” contest in 2024 with an image of 4,000 birds that died after crashing into windows in Toronto. >

In total, almost 23 thousand photo works were presented at this year's competition. This is stated on the competition website.

Photo with the title “When worlds collide”took first place. Patricia Gomonilo received the main prize of 3,500 pounds (193,000 hryvnias) and a prestigious title.

As the journalist said, the photo shows the risks that city buildings and reflective surfaces pose to birds. Reflected light is a serious threat to birds. To a bird, such surfaces, such as windows, may appear to be an extension of the landscape, and they crash into them at high speed.

Every year, more than a billion birds die in North America alone due to collisions with windows, said Patricia Homonilo.

In the category “Best comedy photo of a bird” the gold was awarded to Nadia Hack from the USA with the work ” Modern dancer”. The silver went toRobert Glockner from the USA, who took a photo of an owl in a hole and called the picture “Open Door”, and the bronze went to Gary Collier from Great Britain with a group portrait of birds called “Skullmen getting ready to sleep”.

In the nomination “Urban Birds” the winner was the photographer from Poland Grzegorz Dlugoszwith the work “Treacherous Journey”, in which a family of birds crosses the road in front of a car. Silver – Hungarian photographer Boldizar Syuch, who photographed birds on one of the floors of the building and named the photo “Apartment”. Bronze was awarded to Czech photographer Tomáš Grim with the photo “Crows watching TV”.

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Bird Photographer of the Year is a photo contest in which a resident of any territory and any age can take part. The organizers note that these pictures contain “the most incredible bird photos in the world, taken by talented photographers, and also raise vital funds for our partner – the charity Birds on the Brink”.