![]() ![]() Using a boat with low sides and an electric motor, I was able to observe and photograph the birds without disrupting or affecting their behaviour.Īs I floated in silence, I watched the parent divers feed leeches and tiny fish to their chick – just days old – and they were unconcerned by my presence. I spent some time in the Cariboo region of British Columbia photographing a very accommodating family of common loons (or great northern divers as they are known in Europe). © Sue Dougherty (USA)/Bird Photographer of the Year Great northern diver ( Gavia immer), Cariboo region, British Columbia, Canada. Bronze Award winner Free as a Bird, by Mario Suarez Porras (Spain).īeads of Diamonds. I took this image from a light aircraft with the doors removed on one side.Ĭanon R5 with Canon 24–105mm f/4 lens. Huge numbers of flamingos regularly gather on this remote lake to feed on the specialist brine invertebrates here, which themselves feed on the algae. High rates of evaporation resulting from searing air temperatures had begun to produce soda salt floes on the lake surface. This had awakened dormant microscopic algae in the lake bed, which caused the red coloration in the image and mixed with yellow and brown sediment washed into the lake from the Suguta River. Recent rains had covered the previously empty lake with a shallow depth of water. ![]() This image shows a small flock of lesser and greater flamingos as they fly over Lake Logipi in northern Kenya. © Paul Mckenzie (Ireland)/Bird Photographer of the Year Lesser flamingo ( Phoeniconaias minor) and greater flamingo ( Phoenicopterus roseus). ![]()
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