Overview

• The National Audubon Society announced the 2025 winners, awarding grand prizes to Felipe Esteban Toledo Alarcón for a ringed kingfisher in Chile and to Liron Gertsman for magnificent frigatebirds in Mexico.
• An inaugural Birds Without Borders prize spotlighted cross-border migrations, with Jacobo Giraldo Trejos winning for royal terns photographed on San Andrés Island, Colombia.
• In the U.S. and Canada pool, Yoshiki Nakamura won the Birds Without Borders category for an image of snow geese in Mount Vernon, Washington.
• The contest adopted a dual-pool format spanning the U.S./Canada and Chile/Colombia, with judges granting nine prizes to entrants from Chile and Colombia and eight to entrants from the U.S. and Canada.
• Audubon emphasized conservation urgency, citing the loss of three billion birds in North America since 1970 and more than 500 species at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean, and said entries for the 2026 awards open January 15, 2026.