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

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!

Best overall

First place overall!

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

Second place overall!

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

Bird in flight

First place bird in flight

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

Second place bird in flight

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

Bird in its habitat

First place bird in habitat

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

Second place bird in habitat

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

Common bird

First place common bird

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

Second place common bird

Mute swan preening in Prospect Park. By Fetafete.

Site-specific categories

Prospect Park

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

Green-Wood Cemetery

Yellow warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery. By Ajohnson0109.

Floyd Bennett Field

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

Brooklyn shore

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

Bird outside NYC

First place outside NYC

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

Second place outside NYC

Venezuelan troupial on a cactus in Aruba. By Fetafete.

Phone camera

First place phone camera

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

Second place phone camera

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

Honorable mentions

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

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  Green heron hunting in Commonwealth Lake Park in Beaverton, Oregon. By Appleconnor808.
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  Black-throated green warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery. By Fetafete.
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  Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery. By Barbara Schelkle.
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  Great blue heron in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  Mute swan carrying cygnets in Prospect Park. By Meir Chaimowitz.
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  Say's phoebe in Sierra Vista, Arizona. By Fetafete.
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  Great egret in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park. By Barbara Schelkle.
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  Hudsonian whimbrel on Fort Tilden Beach. By Jeremy Nadel.
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  White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  Northern flicker in Prospect Park. By Barbara Schelkle.
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  Yellow-rumped warbler in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  American avocet at Mono Lake in California. By Ant.tab.

Thank you!

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.