Last week, we featured the winners of this year's annual Audubon Photography Awards, and today, competition organizers were kind enough to share some of their Top 100 images from the thousands of entries. Photographers were competing for eight prizes across five divisions, and their images depicted birdlife from all 50 U.S. states as well as eight Canadian provinces and territories. Red-naped Sapsucker. Cohen: "When I found an active red-naped sapsucker nest, I saw firsthand the work parents did to feed and care for their brood. With my gear on a tripod, I positioned myself to watch their comings and goings. The chicks inside were too young to poke out of the hole, but both parents regularly brought larva and insects to the nest. They'd also carry off fecal sacs'little packages of poop'like the one covered in wood chips pictured here." Photographed in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. # Elegant Tern. Lohman: "I visited the same location for several days in a row to photograph a...
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