Audubon Photography Awards Expands with 2025 Winners

NEW YORK / SANTIAGO / BOGOTA (September 17, 2025) – As we speak the Nationwide Audubon Society introduced the winners of the 2025 Audubon Photography Awards. Now in its sixteenth yr, the awards have expanded to Chile and Colombia with new prizes specializing in migratory species, habitats, and conservation—all whereas persevering with to characteristic beautiful imagery that highlights the sweetness and pleasure of birds and interesting avian behaviors.  

For the primary time, judges awarded 9 prizes to residents of Chile and Colombia, together with eight prizes awarded to residents of america and Canada. This yr additionally offered the brand new Birds With out Borders Prize, depicting birds with migratory paths that cross worldwide boundaries, and the Conservation Prize, illustrating conservation challenges that birds face or methods addressing these challenges might help them thrive. Beforehand featured prizes—such because the Grand Prize, Birds in Landscapes Prize, Youth Prize, Vegetation for Birds Prize, Feminine Hen Prize, and Video Prize—have been additionally awarded this yr. Two separate panels judged entries anonymously and chosen the winners and honorable mentions for his or her respective areas. 

Prizes for U.S. and Canada Residents

• Grand Prize
• Youth Prize
• Video Prize
• Feminine Hen Prize
• Vegetation for Birds Prize
• Birds With out Borders Prize
• Birds in Landscapes Prize
• Conservation Prize

Prizes for Chile and Colombia Residents*

• Grand Prize
• Youth Prize
• Video Prize
• Birds With out Borders Prize
• Conservation Prize
• Vegetation for Birds Prize, Colombia 
• Birds in Landscapes Prize, Colombia
• Birds in Landscapes Prize, Chile
• Coastal Birds Prize, Chile

*Nation-specific prizes are open to residents of each Chile and Colombia. 

Chile and Colombia are house to a few of the world’s most biodiverse landscapes and seascapes. Most of the birds that migrate between these vibrant international locations and Canada and america are weak to extinction attributable to local weather change—together with species featured on this yr’s Audubon Images Awards just like the Royal Tern, Snow Goose, and Blackburnian Warbler. Audubon works to guard these birds from the twin crises of local weather change and biodiversity loss by way of coordinated efforts throughout international locations and areas to make sure their survival year-round. This yr’s Audubon Images Awards helps inform the story of hemispheric hen conservation and highlights how birds join individuals throughout geographies and ecosystems. 

Winners and honorable mentions are printed on-line in Audubon journal and can be featured within the Fall 2025 print concern. The annual Prime 100 and extra choose images and movies may even be shared in digital galleries promoted on Audubon’s web site.  

The 2026 Audubon Images Awards will open for entries on January 15, 2026. Go to Audubon’s web site for particulars on the Chile and Colombia and U.S. and Canada contests, in addition to details about Audubon Americas and Audubon’s Plants for Birds program.   

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The Nationwide Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation group that protects birds and the locations they want right now and tomorrow. We work all through the Americas in direction of a future the place birds thrive as a result of Audubon is a robust, numerous, and ever-growing pressure for conservation. Audubon has greater than 700 workers working throughout the hemisphere and greater than 1.5 million energetic supporters. North America has misplaced three billion birds since 1970, and greater than 500 hen species are vulnerable to extinction throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Birds act as early warning programs concerning the well being of our surroundings, they usually inform us that birds – and our planet – are in disaster. Collectively as one Audubon, we’re working to change the course of local weather change and habitat loss, resulting in more healthy hen populations and reversing present developments in biodiversity loss. We do that by implementing on-the-ground conservation, partnering with native communities, influencing public and company coverage, and constructing neighborhood. Study extra at www.audubon.org and on Fb, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety. 

Media Contact:  
Megan Moriarty, megan.moriarty@audubon.org