Winners of the 2021 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition

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Credit: Shane Kalyn

Beak to Beak. Winged Life Winner
Common ravens usually mate for life, and this intimate, open-beaked moment captured by photographer Shane Kalyn is likely an example of allopreening—reciprocal grooming that serves both to solidify social bonds and to keep plumage clean.
 

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Hope Amidst the Ashes. Grand Prize Winner. Bushfires have ravaged the Australian landscape in recent years, burning some 42 million acres in 2019 and 2020 alone.
Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur
 
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Facing Reality. Aquatic Life Finalist. With their silky coats, big, dark eyes, and perpetual grins, leopard seals can look downright cuddly lounging on Antarctic ice floes.
Credit: Amos Nachoum
 

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Nutritional Supplement. Landscapes, Waterscapes, and Flora Finalist. Despite its modest proportions and rarity in the wild, the Venus flytrap is one of the most recognizable plants in the world. With hinged leaves that snap shut at the slightest touch of hairlike triggers on their surfaces, it’s highly specialized to do just that, as this hoverfly going about its business in a North Carolina forest last November learned the hard way.
Credit: Nick Kanakis
 
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Ice Bears. Photo Story Winner (one of six images). In Canada’s Yukon Territory, grizzly bears delay their hibernation to catch the last salmon runs of the season. As temperatures drop below –4 degrees Fahrenheit (–20 Celsius), the grizzlies’ water-soaked fur freezes into a chandelier of icicles that jingle with each step. Local Indigenous peoples tell stories of arrows unable to penetrate the icy armor of the bears.
Credit: Peter Mather
 
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Sign of the Tides. Human / Nature Winner. According to one study, 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves were used globally each month during the pandemic, as much as 75 percent of which are likely to end up in landfills or the ocean.\
Credit: Ralph Pace.
 
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