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Every year we field thousands of entries for the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Photography Awards, and every year we have to make the terrible choice of picking just a handful of winners. Lucky for us, our readers are always hungry for more amazing bird pics. So we'd like to share a hundred of our favorites (in no particular order) in the gallery above—enjoy!

Quick Stats:

Participants: More than 1,700

Images entered: Nearly 7,000

Categories: Amateur, Professional, Fine Art, Youth

Entrants from: 50 states, 6 provinces, District of Columbia

Judges

Kenn Kaufman: , ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ field editor

Melissa Groo:  and 2015 Grand Prize winner

Steve Freligh: Co-publisher of 

Kevin Fisher: ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ creative director

Sabine Meyer: ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ photography director

Judging criteria: Technical quality, originality, artistic merit

See the 2016 winners here.