Wildlife winners
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1st Place - Outstanding Achievement Title: Flying Gentoo's At New Island in the Falkland Islands, the North Beach is a great location to photograph in the evening, the returning Gentoo Penguins, leaping out of the rugged South Atlantic Ocean surf. Groups of S
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2nd Place - Merit of Excellence Title: Siesta A flamingo basking in the afternoon sun
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3rd Place - Honor of Distinction Title: Lake Garda Winter Silence A quiet garda lake winter moment, with a bird, Monte Baldo in the background and a glimpse of red
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Honorable Mention Title: Gorilla Stare
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Honorable Mention Title: Bon Appetit Brown Bear in Alaska
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Honorable Mention Title: Buffalo Wings The birds hover close to the buffalo as they graze, snatching insects flying to get out of the way. This photo looked like the buffalo was about to eat the bird!
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Honorable Mention Title: Buddies Two bear cubs playing together.
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Honorable Mention Title: Anhinga tossing Fish As we sat on the beach an Anhinga landed right in front of us and started diving for fish. Anhinga will use their dagger like bills to spear fish. Once speared though they need to flip them off the be
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Honorable Mention Title: tea time? Teatime? The litltle common moorhen fowl one moment run on the waterlily pads, the other moment still drinking a cup of tea from the yellow waterlily flower. It was fun to see this bird in movement in
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Honorable Mention Title: Sleeping Beauties Rarely captured during daytime hours a group of Australian Red Rumped Parrots sleeping on the electricity wires
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Honorable Mention Title: Lion Mates Lion and lioness matin in the Masai Mara in Kenya.
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Honorable Mention Title: Pretty Cold Antarctica
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Honorable Mention Title: Hippo Mud Bath If you took a quick look at the mud pile you might have missed what was actually there until something moved. Mostly submerged and covered in thick mud were about a dozen Hippos just looking like mud
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Honorable Mention Title: Mountain Goats
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Honorable Mention Title: Breakfast at Sunrise
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Honorable Mention Title: Lioness at Sunrise Lioness surveying the area on the kopjes at sunrise
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Honorable Mention Title: Freddy Thie frog grew up amongst my many orchids and came every night to sleep in and drink from the pitcher plant. I called him Freddy. Freddy, the frog.
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Honorable Mention Title: White Bird
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Honorable Mention Title: Frosty Bull Bison A frosty and snow covered bison trudges through deep snow in Yellowstone
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Honorable Mention Title: Dragonfly In Rain We got caught in a heavy thunderstorm at Bellingrath Gardens. Below our shelter was this dragonfly in the rain. Theodore, AL, USA.
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Honorable Mention Title: Avocets Avocets over Owens Lake, California
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