Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Birds of NYC Photo Contest/Winners

Birds of NYC Photo Contest Winners!



Wikimedia New York City ran a bird photography contest with the Brooklyn Bird Club in fall 2022. We received 321 entries, and we're excited to share the results! For more information about the contest, see the main contest page.

Jury

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Thank you to our jury, who volunteered their time to evaluate the submissions:

  • Jen Kepler, Brooklyn Bird Club
  • JJ Harrison, Wikimedian and wildlife photographer
  • Sammy Siharat, Brooklyn-based photographer

Winners!

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Best overall

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First place overall!

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Nelson's sparrow in the Plumb Beach marsh. By Jeremy Nadel.

Second place overall!

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Belted kingfisher flying over Prospect Park Lake. By Hugh Sansom.

Bird in flight

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First place bird in flight

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Great blue heron flying just above the water in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.

Second place bird in flight

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Ruby-throated hummingbird at a flower in Brooklyn Bridge Park. By Barbara Schelkle.

Bird in its habitat

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First place bird in habitat

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Snowy owl on Breezy Point, with dunlin in flight. By Ryan A. Candee.

Second place bird in habitat

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Red-tailed hawk with prey on Governors Island. By Preeti Desai.

Common bird

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First place common bird

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Tufted titmouse on a fire escape in Park Slope. By Hugh Sansom.

Second place common bird

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Mute swan preening in Prospect Park. By Fetafete.

Site-specific categories

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Prospect Park

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Black-crowned night heron with a pond slider in the Prospect Park Lake. By Hugh Sansom.

Green-Wood Cemetery

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Yellow warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery. By Ajohnson0109.

Floyd Bennett Field

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Cassin's kingbird perched at Floyd Bennett Field. By Ryan A. Candee.

Brooklyn shore

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Gull facing the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge from Veterans Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge. By Rachel Casiano.

Bird outside NYC

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First place outside NYC

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Buff-necked ibises along the Paraguay River in Brazil. By Amanda Bielskas.

Second place outside NYC

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Venezuelan troupial on a cactus in Aruba. By Fetafete.

Phone camera

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First place phone camera

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Atlantic puffin, seen through a scope at Borgarfjörður eystri in Iceland. By Lauren A. Neal.

Second place phone camera

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Ospreys at a nest, seen through a scope in Southampton, New York. By Molly Adams.

Honorable mentions

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We received a lot of great entries. Here are a few stand-outs from those which didn't win prizes, selected by the organizers.

Thank you!

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Congratulations to the winners, and thank you everyone who participated! As long as you specified an email when you created your account on Commons, you'll receive an email in the next few days to arrange for you to get your prize. If you did not specify an email, you will receive a message with more information on your Commons talk page (you should see a notification when you log in). Reach out to ryan [at] wikimedianyc.org with questions.