Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Birds of NYC Photo Contest/Winners

Wikimedia New York City ran a bird photography contest with the Brooklyn Bird Club in fall 2022. We received 321 entries, and we're excited to share the results! For more information about the contest, see the main contest page.

Thank you to our jury, who volunteered their time to evaluate the submissions:

• Jen Kepler, Brooklyn Bird Club
• JJ Harrison, Wikimedian and wildlife photographer
• Sammy Siharat, Brooklyn-based photographer

Best overall

First place overall!

Second place overall!

Bird in flight

First place bird in flight

Second place bird in flight

Bird in its habitat

First place bird in habitat

Second place bird in habitat

Common bird

First place common bird

Second place common bird

Site-specific categories

Prospect Park

Green-Wood Cemetery

Floyd Bennett Field

Brooklyn shore

Bird outside NYC

First place outside NYC

Second place outside NYC

Phone camera

First place phone camera

Second place phone camera

We received a lot of great entries. Here are a few stand-outs from those which didn't win prizes, selected by the organizers.

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  Green heron hunting in Commonwealth Lake Park in Beaverton, Oregon. By Appleconnor808.
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  Black-throated green warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery. By Fetafete.
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  Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery. By Barbara Schelkle.
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  Great blue heron in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  Mute swan carrying cygnets in Prospect Park. By Meir Chaimowitz.
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  Say's phoebe in Sierra Vista, Arizona. By Fetafete.
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  Great egret in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park. By Barbara Schelkle.
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  Hudsonian whimbrel on Fort Tilden Beach. By Jeremy Nadel.
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  White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  Northern flicker in Prospect Park. By Barbara Schelkle.
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  Yellow-rumped warbler in Prospect Park. By Hugh Sansom.
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  American avocet at Mono Lake in California. By Ant.tab.

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you everyone who participated! As long as you specified an email when you created your account on Commons, you'll receive an email in the next few days to arrange for you to get your prize. If you did not specify an email, you will receive a message with more information on your Commons talk page (you should see a notification when you log in). Reach out to ryan [at] wikimedianyc.org with questions.