Beautiful Birds in Urban Places Photo Contest
Many thanks to Leica Camera, North America, Inc. for their donation of a camera for our First Prize Winner.
Summer 2008 Challenge/Contest
What's the most unusual and surprising place you've seen birds? We awarded great prizes (digital camera, sound ID guides, and more).
Participants captured a sense of fun and showed how easy it is to watch birds.
Entries showed how amazingly birds fit themselves into the human/urban environment: a House Sparrow nesting in a traffic light or a pigeon sitting on an air conditioner. Nothing fancy!
First place winner:
Marian Mendez, Hialeah, Florida
Eurasian Collared-Doves
Click on the links below to see many other photos by Marian Mendez:
Second place winner
Samuel Parker, Bayou Gretna Wildlife Habitat
Brown-headed Cowbirds in a bird bath at Bayou Gretna Wildlife Habitat.
"They remind me of children having fun"
Video by Steve Baldwin.
Ever thought you'd see Parrots in Brooklyn? These sure are beautiful birds in weird urban places!
Our afterschool club here in Columbus Ohio. This group is helping us collect data about our Important Bird Area which is the future home of our Audubon center slated to open next year. The wall was just removed this weekend as part of the construction of our center. This area will be part of the viewing area in our center for collecting data about urban birds! We often see swallows and falcons at this spot.
In a dramatic catch, a cormorant takes his somewhat pricey lunch in a well-stocked pond at Brooklyn's Botanical Gardens and, with wondrous economy, disposes of it in a single gulp. No digestive aids needed.
Photo by T. Traylor
Here's my beautiful bird in an urban place. This juvenile Cooper's Hawk visits me nearly every day. I live in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, about two blocks from the Civic Center and Rupp Arena, where the Kentucky Wildcats play their home basketball games. These trees are in a courtyard across the street from my attic apartment. Sometimes, when I open my window to shoot, she looks right at me.
Photo by Clara Correa (Argentina)
Mourning Doves and Pigeons in Palermo, Argentina.
"The city hides thousands of stories that people can't even imagine because these birds are incredible"
("La ciudad encierra miles de historias que la gente ni se imagina,
porque esas aves son INCREIBLES").
