2026 Audubon Photography Awards Winners Announced

The 2026 Audubon Photography Awards has announced winners across two parallel competitions: one for photographers in the US and Canada, one for those in Chile and Colombia. Jacqueline Burke took the North American grand prize with a roseate spoonbill bathing in a shadowed Florida cove; Francisco Castro Escobar won the Chile/Colombia grand prize with a rarely-seen lesser horned owl perched on a cactus at dawn. Other category winners span conservation, youth, and cross-border bird photography, with work ranging from nesting gannets in Shetland to albatrosses in Chilean fjords.