
Photographers from around the world recently submitted 20,000-odd images of bird species to the Bird Photographer of the Year contest.
Photographers from around the world recently submitted 20,000-odd images of bird species to the Bird Photographer of the Year contest.
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December and January represent breeding season for seabirds in Antarctica, a time when there should be thousands of active nests. But strong snowstorms during the 2021-2022 season made it difficult for birds to access their usual grounds and resulted in a total failure to reproduce for multiple species.