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2009 Photographic Competition
Celebrating Ecology
The overall winner received £750 and the overall runner-up received £250. The Student award winner received £100. Winning entries for each category are exhibited at the BES Annual Meeting, and published in the December 2009 BES Bulletin.
We would also like to thank the Oxford University Press for kindly sponsoring £30 worth of book vouchers to each winning entry that did not receive the overall, overall runner-up or student prize.
Overall Winner and winner of the "Whole Organism and Populations" category.
Tying the Knot.
Male Cape Weaver (Ploceus capensis) using his acrobatic and weaving skills to construct one of several nests to impress potential mates.
According to Ms Bradter “I took the picture in November last year in Wilderness National Park, South Africa. It was fascinating how this male weaver bird worked tirelessly to construct something bigger than himself from just grass, and how he clung on to the beginnings of the nest – sometimes with just one leg – while working. I watched and photographed him for several hours, and this picture is one of my favorites from the sequence because it shows his acrobatic skills and I liked the curve in the blade of grass he was using.”
Photo Credit: Ms Ute Bradter
Overall Runner Up and Winner of the "Student" Category
Female Adder.
Female adder (Vipera berus) in North York Moors National Park, UK.
According to Dr Petrovan “The picture was taken with a compact camera and the female adder became interested in the front of the lens and started tasting the air with her tongue to try and identify the mysterious object. I like the fact that it shows adders probably as close as possible to how another adder or small animal - maybe one of the rodents about to become its next meal - would see it.”
Photo Credit: Dr Silviu Petrovan
Runner up entry for the "Student" Category
Natural Picture theatre.
Natural picture theatre in a mixed beech/spruce forest.
Photo credit: Mr Christian Schoeb
Runner Up of the "Whole Organism and Populations" category
Hazel's Forest Frog.
The endangered Hazel's Forest Frog (Platymantis hazelae) with eggs living in the leaf axils of a screw pine (Freycinetia sp.) found at the North Negros Natural Park, Negros Island, Philippines.
Photo credit: Dr Craig Turner
Winner of the "Ecosystems and Communities" category
The lionfish (Pterois volitanus) in this picture defends itself with poisonous spines and is a voracious predator, but it usually hunts at night.
Photo credit: Mr James Rosindell
The Runner up entry for the "Ecosystems and Communities" category
Natural Recyling.
A hornet dragging the wing of a dead bird, Derynia, Cyprus 2008.
Photo credit: Dr Nicholas Jarraud
Winner of the "Ecology in Action" category
Pifall Trap.
Undergraduate students check bucket-sized pitfall traps for amphibians and reptiles on an expedition to Honduras. (Copyright: Dr David Bird)
Photo credit: Dr David Bird
Runner up entry for the "Ecology in Action" category
Researchers conducting a tern colony census at Monomoy, Massachusetts. Aka, The Birds...
Photo Credit: Ms Hannah Grist
Winner of the "Ecology and Society" Category
Bonito catch.
Cuban fishermen catch Bonito (Sarda sarda) sustainably using hand lines. More than one tonne of fish were caught in less than 20 minutes.
Photo credit: Dr David Bird
Runner up entry for the "Ecology and Society" category
Monitor Lizard Tours
Here on the Kinabatangan river near Sandakan in Borneo, tourism is one important way that people interact with wildlife. Usually humans are onboard the tour boat, curious about the new and strange things they are seeing and enjoying the sun?s warmth. In this case of role reversal however, a native monitor lizard (Varanus salvator) is in the tour boat instead, perhaps for similar reasons!
Photo credit : Mr James Rosindell
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