Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005

Every year the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine conducts the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. This award is considered one of the prestigious of the wildlife photography awards, and the prizes for this year has been announced.

Prize: Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Photographer: Manuel Presti
Description: The photo shows a flock of starlings evading an attacking Peregrine Falcon



Prize: Best entry for Nature in Black & White category
Photographer: Martyn Colbeck
Descrption: Martyn took this photo on his birthday. The picture captures the plains of Africa, the cloud deck as well as Mt. Kilimanjaro, which is 40 kms away.



Prize: Best entry for Animals in their Environment category
Photographer: Martin Eisenhawer
Description: Flock of swans in a thermal lake in Japan, surrounding temperature is near to -20 degrees centigrade.



Prize: Best entry for Animal Portraits category
Photographer: Alexander Mustard
Description: A school of Bohar Snapper, one of the largest reef predators in the Red Sea.



Prize: Best entry for Animal Behavior category
Photographer: Ruben Smit
Description: Mating toads during spring. So frenzied was the activity that some of the male toads mistook his fingers, which he had dipped in the lake to take the pictures, for females and squeezed them with passion.


Source: BBC