The Bird Photographer of the Year has announced its winners for the 2022 contest. Over 20,000 entries were submitted this year for the world’s largest bird photographer competition. The grand prize was won by a photograph of a rock ptarmigan in its winter plumage flying over the snow-covered mountains of Tysfjord, Norway.
Bringing spectacular sights from the avian world, the contest is divided into eight categories: Best Portrait, Birds in the Environment, Attention to Detail, Bird Behavior, Birds in Flight, Black and White, Urban Birds, and Creative Imagery. Revel in the beauty of the winning images from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2022 that will make you fall in love with the avian world.
You know what they say: Taking a flight on a brisk morning will refresh you to the bone.
Image: Erlend Haarberg
A small flock of lesser and greater flamingos flying over Lake Logipi in northern Kenya dots the landscape.
Image: Paul Mckenzie
Ahhh! Free as a bird. A European shag flies over a huge wave off the west coast of Asturias in northern Spain.
Image: Mario Suarez Porras
King Penguin chick is taking its beauty sleep at Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands.
Image: Andy Pollard
This western capercaillie was approaching people during the mating time and displaying his beautiful feathers and form in the course.
Image: Isabella Chowra
A great northern diver came to the water surface with amazing hydrodynamic lines of water droplets adorning its head from beak to neck.
Image: Peter Ismert
Anna’s hummingbird catching water droplets from a water fountain was captured in Fremont, California.
Image: Parham Pourahmad
A flock of Greater flamingoes forms a perfect line over the city of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Image: Ammar Alsayed Ahmed
A tiny, brave dunlin is walking upwind in a storm on the tiny North Sea island of Heligoland.
Image: Levi Fitze
Seems like this little owl is playing hide and seek with its fellows in Transylvania, Romania.
Image: Laszlo Potozky
This winner of the creative category seems up to a fishy business featuring Dalmatian pelican and greater flamingo in Greece.
Image: Janine Lee
Common guillemots, which are efficient swimmers, were photographed in Berwickshire Marine Reserve, Scotland.
Image: Henley Spiers
This Sage grouse is a strut performer and was pictured in Colorado, on the prairies of the Great Basin of the American West.
Image: Ly Dang
Winning bird behavior prize, this picture features two sage grouse dueling during the mating season to win the affection of the females.
Image: Peter Ismert
Titled ‘Van Gogh’s Strokes,’ this image pays homage to white storks, which symbolize faithfulness and strength of spirit in Ukrainian mythology.
Image: Petro Katerynych
Photographer captured a pair of galahs passing a silos mural, simply amazing.
Image: Raoul Slater
This smitten pair of purple-crested turacos does not shy away from a little public display of affection.
Image: Richard Flack
A pied Avocet chick was photographed sipping water from a soda lake called Nagyszéksós-tó in Kinskunság National Park, Hungary.
Image: Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz
The best of both worlds, a double-crested cormorant is ready to take its dive at a potential underwater feast.
Image: Henley Spiers
This portrait of love and affection features a pair of Atlantic puffins with a background of the morning sun.
Image: Brad James
Titled ‘Sandhill Crane Flight Team Air Show,’ this creative imagery winner pays homage to the annual US Navy Blue Angels military air show.
Image: Wei Lion