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Oct 27, 2017

Bird photo winners


Natural History Museum, London
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017
53rd ANNUAL EXHIBITION

Photo: Gerry Pearce 
Behaviour: Birds Category
The Incubator Bird
by Gerry Pearce, UK/Australia
Most birds incubate their eggs with their bodies.   Not so the Australian Brush Turkey (Alectura lathami), one of a handful of birds, the megapodes, that do it with an oven.   Only the males oversee incubation.   In the winning picture above, a male has chosen to create his nest-mound near the photographer's home in Sydney, bordering Garigal National Park.   If he and his mound were to a female's liking, she would lay a clutch of eggs inside.   In the photo above, the male is piling on more insulation of brush to raise the temperature.

Photo: Ekaterina Bee
10 years and younger category
The Grip of the Gulls
by Ekaterina Bee, Italy
Like all her family, five-and-a-half year old Ekaterina Bee is fascinated by nature.  On a boat trip off the coast of central Norway, her focus was on the cloud of Herring Gulls above her.   They were after food, and as soon as Ekaterina threw them bread, they surrounded her.   She liked the expression of the bird furthest away.   "It looked very curious, as if it was trying to understand what was happening on the boat.

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BarrytheBirder

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