Bird Photographer of the Year – 2025. Some spectacular inspiration from the 33,000 images entered. Here are the winners: take a look at them all.

The European Goldfinches in the unharvested sunflower fields by Mateusz Piesiak blew me away. I will never bike or drive past an unharvested field of any kind again.

The title of Bird Photographer of the Year went to Liron Gertsmen for ‘The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring’ which shows a Magnificent Frigatebird silhouetted against a total solar eclipse. Gertsmen said he spent “well over a year” planning the image, which was taken off the coast of Mazatlán, Mexico. A video of the moment the photo was taken is below.