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  • Radjah Shelduck (Image ID 29491)

    Radjah Shelduck.   Photographer: Gary King

  • Sanderling (Image ID 32670)

    Sanderling.   Photographer: Jane Putland

  • Hoary-headed Grebe (Image ID 36064)

    Hoary-headed Grebe.   Photographer: Rodger Scott

  • Azure Kingfisher (Image ID 22520)

    Azure Kingfisher.   Photographer: Harry Charalambous

  • Osprey (Image ID 50891)

    Osprey.   Photographer: Paul Jensen

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The next BirdLife Photography Biennial Conference will be held in Hahndorf, SA, at the Adelaide Hills Convention Centre, on 23rd & 24th March 2024.

Visit the dedicated BirdLife Photography Biennial Conference website for details.  Ticket sales are now open.

The final cut-off dates for conference attendance and conference dinner bookings are Saturday 9th of March for the dinner and Saturday 16th of March for the conference itself. No bookings can be accepted after the cut-off dates

BirdLife Photography would like to acknowledge Adelaide Optical Centre and Twin City Cameras for their generous sponsorship of our conference.

This Search facility will search all website content, uploaded documents, and images.  Some content on this site is restricted to BLP members; visitors may not be able to access all the items found.  The search options button on the All Photos page (on the Photo Gallery drop-down menu), and on individual gallery pages, provides more options for searching images only.

Latest Images

Welcome Swallow (Image ID 62201)
Welcome Swallow
Glenn Pure
Viewed: 39
Australasian Grebe (Image ID 62200)
Australasian Grebe
Glenn Pure
Viewed: 32
Welcome Swallow (Image ID 62199)
Welcome Swallow
Rob Solic
Viewed: 24
Grey Butcherbird, Noisy Miner (Image ID 62198)
Grey Butcherbird, Noisy Miner
Angela Farnsworth
Viewed: 15
Grey Butcherbird, Noisy Miner (Image ID 62197)
Grey Butcherbird, Noisy Miner
Angela Farnsworth
Viewed: 12
Far Eastern Curlew (Image ID 62196)
Far Eastern Curlew
Tony Willis
Viewed: 17
Australian Brush-turkey (Image ID 62195)
Australian Brush-turkey
Angela Farnsworth
Viewed: 13
Striated Heron (Image ID 62194)
Striated Heron
Angela Farnsworth
Viewed: 17
Crested Pigeon (Image ID 62193)
Crested Pigeon
Diana Womersley
Viewed: 29
White-winged Chough (Image ID 62192)
White-winged Chough
Diana Womersley
Viewed: 26
Black Swan (Image ID 62191)
Black Swan
Ian Wilson
Viewed: 30
Grey Plover (Image ID 62190)
Grey Plover
Glenda Gore
Viewed: 17
Masked Lapwing (Image ID 62189)
Masked Lapwing
Glenda Gore
Viewed: 11
Fairy Tern (Image ID 62188)
Fairy Tern
Glenda Gore
Viewed: 15
Western Spinebill (Image ID 62187)
Western Spinebill
Glenda Gore
Viewed: 16
Pacific Black Duck (Image ID 62145)
Pacific Black Duck
John Gitsham
Viewed: 16

The Best of 2018 competition was held in January-February 2019. The results of member voting for the top 5 images (or more, in the case of a tie) in each category are listed here.  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 – Best of 2018

This category attracted 88 entries, from 23 photographers. 48 members voted, with the following result:

  • Winner - Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo, Superb Fairy-wren, by Mark Lethlean (Image ID 34138)
  • Commended - Australasian Grebe, by Glenn Pure (Image ID 33785)
  • Commended - Regent Bowerbird, by Brian O'Leary (Image no longer available)
  • Commended - Gang-gang Cockatoo, by Trevor Bullock (Image ID 33836)
  • Commended - Black Swan, by Tim Van Leeuwen (Image ID 33613)

Intermediate Level – Best of 2018

This category attracted 95 entries, from 30 photographers. 48 members voted, with the following result:

Entry Level – Best of 2018

This category attracted 37 entries, from 12 photographers. 48 members voted, with the following result:

Recent Picks

Grey-backed Storm-Petrel (Image ID 62071)
Grey-backed Storm-Petrel
Chris Young
Viewed: 110
Pink Robin (Image ID 61955)
Pink Robin
Rob Solic
Viewed: 107
Australasian Gannet (Image ID 61793)
Australasian Gannet
Valerie Misa
Viewed: 103
Superb Fairy-wren (Image ID 61802)
Superb Fairy-wren
Shane Little
Viewed: 88
Galah (Image ID 61731)
Galah
Rob Solic
Viewed: 115
Australasian Darter (Image ID 61648)
Australasian Darter
Stephen Garth
Viewed: 119
Plumed Whistling-Duck (Image ID 61612)
Plumed Whistling-Duck
Shane Little
Viewed: 153
Pied Stilt (Image ID 61516)
Pied Stilt
Patrick Kavanagh
Viewed: 138
Australasian Gannet (Image ID 61497)
Australasian Gannet
Stephen Garth
Viewed: 212
Australian White Ibis (Image ID 61471)
Australian White Ibis
Angela Farnsworth
Viewed: 165

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The Our People page, in the About Us section, contains email links to each of the committee members.