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08/07/2026

⏰ Just ONE WEEK left to enter the 2026 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards!

If you’ve been waiting to choose your best shot, perfect your edits, or finally hit submit, now’s the time. Entries close 13 July and the deadline won’t be extended.

Up for grabs:

📸 $1,000 for each category winner
📸 $2,000 for the Portfolio Prize winner
📸 A Nikon Z 8 camera (RRP $7,449) for the BirdLife Australia Photographer of the Year

Whether you’ve captured a breathtaking bird in flight, a special backyard encounter, or a stunning Australian finch, your photo could be among this year’s winners. Maybe it's sitting in your camera roll right now.

As always, bird welfare comes first, please ensure your entry follows the competition rules.

Enter today: https://www.birdlifephotoaward.org.au/

The 2026 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards are proudly sponsored by Nikon Australia and Lake Cowal Foundation.

📸 Rainbow Bee-eater by Lawrence Chan

29/06/2026

For decades, the clean version of humpback whale migration was easy to describe. The whales fed in cold, productive southern waters, then travelled north to warmer tropical and subtropical waters where mating, birth and early maternal care were assumed to belong. A 2025 paper in Frontiers in Marine....