People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023

Alan Taylor
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The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest recently invited the public to vote for their favorite images from this year’s competition. The winners were just announced, and contest organizers have shared their top picks below. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London. Captions are provided by the photographers and WPY organizers, and are lightly edited for style.

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Ice Bed. Winner, People’s Choice Award. A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the Far North, off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. #
© Nima Sarikhani / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Starling Murmuration. Highly Commended. A mesmerizing mass of starlings swirls into the shape of a giant bird on their way to communal roosts above the city of Rome, Italy. #
© Daniel Dencescu / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Shared Parenting. Highly Commended. A pair of lionesses groom one of the pride’s five cubs in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Early in the morning, Boyd watched as these lionesses groomed one of their five cubs in their territory. The evening before, they’d set off to hunt, leaving the cubs hidden overnight in dense bushes. Returning from their unsuccessful mission, they’d called the cubs out onto the open grassland. #
© Mark Boyd / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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The Happy Turtle. Highly Commended. A Balkan pond turtle shares a moment of peaceful coexistence with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Israel’s Jezreel Valley. #
© Tzahi Finkelstein / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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Aurora Jellies. Highly Commended. Moon jellyfish swarm in the cool autumnal waters of a fjord outside Tromsø, in northern Norway, illuminated by the aurora borealis. #
© Audun Rikardsen / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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People’s Choice: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023

Alan Taylor
11:11 AM ET
5 Photos
In Focus

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest recently invited the public to vote for their favorite images from this year’s competition. The winners were just announced, and contest organizers have shared their top picks below. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum in London. Captions are provided by the photographers and WPY organizers, and are lightly edited for style.

Read more Hints: View this page full screen. Skip to the next and previous photo by typing j/k or ←/→.

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Ice Bed. Winner, People’s Choice Award. A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the Far North, off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. #
© Nima Sarikhani / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Read more
Starling Murmuration. Highly Commended. A mesmerizing mass of starlings swirls into the shape of a giant bird on their way to communal roosts above the city of Rome, Italy. #
© Daniel Dencescu / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Read more
Shared Parenting. Highly........
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