Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 winners
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Gianpiero Ferrari won this year's Bird Photographer of the Year competition, with this picture of a fieldfare bird. He snapped the photo after a night of snow and he left an apple in his garden for the birds. Ferrari said: "I had to build a pile of snow to use as a background and then lay on the ground under a camouflage blanket, waiting for the bird to return to eat the apples."
In second place was Robert Gloeckner from Florida with this image titled Tucked In. This mother and baby sandhill crane bird are all cosy, wrapped up together.
How amazing is this picture? Kevin Rooney took this of the oxpecker bird cleaning the nose of a buffalo in Mara North Conservancy in Kenya. He said: "We were sat in a land cruiser amongst a huge herd of buffalo watching the oxpeckers fly from one to another cleaning flies and ticks from the noses, eyes and ears of the buffalo."
This is the sixth year the competition has been running and photographers all around the world enter. There were photos of bald eagles, owls, penguins, kingfishers and this one of a puffin.
There were 1,750 entries this year and the competition is organised in aid of the RSPB, the charity which helps restore, protect and care for wildlife. This year more than £2,000 was raised for the charity.
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