{"id":99242,"date":"2026-09-23T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99242"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:41:33","slug":"diverse-and-dramatic-behaviors-top-the-2026-bird-photographer-of-the-year-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/09\/23\/diverse-and-dramatic-behaviors-top-the-2026-bird-photographer-of-the-year-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/09\/bird-photographer-of-the-year-winners-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes &amp; various photographers<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It\u2019s all things avian at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdpoty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bird Photographer of the Year<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest contest dedicated to images of feathered creatures planet-wide. This year, the program welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around the globe, capturing diving penguins, urban denizens, mating rituals, dramatic flights, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Highlighting birds of all kinds, the competition emphasizes the diverse appearances and behaviors of the animals and also raises awareness of the challenges they face due human-triggered habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and other factors. Categories include Best Portrait, Bird Behavior, Conservation, Urban Birds, and others, plus three youth categories for budding photographers aged 17 years and younger.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2026\/09\/bird-photographer-of-the-year-winners-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/bpoty-1-1536x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest &#8212; from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes &amp; various photographers It\u2019s all things avian at Bird Photographer of the Year, the world\u2019s largest contest dedicated to images of feathered creatures planet-wide. This year, the program welcomed more than 24,000 entries from photographers around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,252,95,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-digital-photography","category-global","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99244,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99242\/revisions\/99244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}