The image depicts almost 4,000 birds who met their demise after crashing into city windows and other reflecting surfaces.
According to Homonylo, bird strikes cause more than a billion bird deaths annually in North America alone.
As a conservation photojournalist, I have been assisting Toronto’s Fatal Light Awareness Program in saving victims of window collisions.
Sadly, the majority of the birds we locate have passed away.
To honor the lives lost and raise public awareness, we gather them and construct this powerful exhibit at the end of the year.
One of the winning entries in the Conservation (Single Image) category was submitted by Homonylo as well.
Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco, a 14-year-old Spanish photographer, won the Young Bird Photographer of the Year 2024 award for his inventive angle of a nuthatch clambering down an oak tree.
In the adult competition, photographers competed in eight different categories, such as Portfolio Award, Video Award, and Conservation Award.
Here is a collection of the images that took home gold, silver, or bronze awards, together with captions written by the photographers.
