The Natural History Museum in London is inviting people to vote for their favourite image to win this year’s people’s choice award. Twenty-five incredible images have been shortlisted highlighting important nature stories from around the world.
Voting ends 2 February. The top five images will be displayed online and join winners of the 58th competition chosen by a panel of judges. The winner will be showcased at the museum until 2 July. You can see all 25 shortlisted images for the people's choice award via a link at the end of this page. In the meantime, here are OGN's favourites.
Near Rausu port, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, several hundred glaucous-winged gulls waited for the return of fishermen. It was the beginning of March and freezing, and the air was full of the calls of gulls overhead. Focusing on one bird, Chloé composed a minimalist portrait, highlighting the eye and the beak. The red spot on the beak develops when gulls are adult and is a reflection of their health and an essential aid for the young: when chicks peck the spot, it triggers a regurgitation reaction from the parent.
A breeding colony of Caribbean, or American, flamingos, in Ría Lagartos biosphere reserve, on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Two females and a male golden snub-nosed monkey huddle together to keep warm in the extreme cold, in central China.
A polar bear cub playing in a mass of fireweed on the coast of Hudson Bay, Canada. Every so often the cub would stand on its hind legs and poke its head up above the flowers to look for its mother - as captured in this image.
Against a backdrop of the mountains of Ladakh in northern India, a snow leopard is caught by Sascha’s carefully positioned camera trap.
The spectacle of two female muskoxen attacking each other in Norway’s Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella national park.
Walking down a street in his home town of Corella in northern Spain, Eduardo came across a wall with a graffiti cat, complete with shadow. Knowing that common wall geckos emerge on hot summer nights to look for mosquitoes and other insects, Eduardo returned with his camera and waited for the perfect picture – the hunter becoming prey to the trompe l’oeil cat.
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