Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Birds of NYC Photo Contest/Winners
Wikimedia New York City ran a bird photography contest with the Brooklyn Bird Club in fall 2022. We received 321 entries, and we're excited to share the results! For more information about the contest, see the main contest page.
Jury edit
Thank you to our jury, who volunteered their time to evaluate the submissions:
- Jen Kepler, Brooklyn Bird Club
- JJ Harrison, Wikimedian and wildlife photographer
- Sammy Siharat, Brooklyn-based photographer
Winners! edit
Best overall edit
First place overall! edit
Second place overall! edit
Bird in flight edit
First place bird in flight edit
Second place bird in flight edit
Bird in its habitat edit
First place bird in habitat edit
Second place bird in habitat edit
Common bird edit
First place common bird edit
Second place common bird edit
Site-specific categories edit
Prospect Park edit
Green-Wood Cemetery edit
Floyd Bennett Field edit
Brooklyn shore edit
Bird outside NYC edit
First place outside NYC edit
Second place outside NYC edit
Phone camera edit
First place phone camera edit
Second place phone camera edit
Honorable mentions edit
We received a lot of great entries. Here are a few stand-outs from those which didn't win prizes, selected by the organizers.
Thank you! edit
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you everyone who participated! As long as you specified an email when you created your account on Commons, you'll receive an email in the next few days to arrange for you to get your prize. If you did not specify an email, you will receive a message with more information on your Commons talk page (you should see a notification when you log in). Reach out to ryan [at] wikimedianyc.org
with questions.