"Big Is Beautiful" Competition - Members Voting Results

The Big Is Beautiful competition was held in July-August 2016.  BIG is any bird species which your bird guide identifies as on average being 40 centimetres or larger in the body (not wingspan).  By way of example, according to my Field Guide to Australian Birds by Michael Morcombe the following bird species would fall into that category: Great Crested Grebe, Cape Petrel, Peregrine Falcon (but not the Australian Hobby or Nankeen Kestrel), Silver Gull, Crested Tern, Australian King Parrot (but not the Galah), currawongs, Laughing Kookaburra, Common Koel and Yellow Wattlebird, to name just a few.

The results of member voting for the top 5 images in each category are listed here.  In line with many other bird/wildlife photo competitions, we present the results in the following manner: the Winner is the image which received the most votes; and we also show the next four highest placed images, rating them as Highly Commended if they received at least 90% of the votes for the winning image, and Commended for scores less than that.

Advanced Level – Big Is Beautiful

This category attracted 61 entries, from 18 photographers. 36 members voted, with the following result:

Intermediate Level – Big Is Beautiful

This category attracted 106 entries, from 33 photographers. 38 members voted, with the following result:

Entry Level – Big Is Beautiful

This category attracted 46 entries, from 19 photographers. 33 members voted, with the following result: