img. Grand Prize Winner: Double-crested Cormorant by Joanna Lentini, Location: Los Islotes, Mexico /Hometown: Warwick, New York, USA (all images courtesy Audobon Society), from Hyperallergic website.

Each year, the National Audubon Society launches a photographic contest dedicated to natural photography and particularly to birds, to capture moments of beauty and nice behaviours of these incredible creatures.

This great picture, showing a scuba diving cormorant in full action while chasing sardines, was taken in Mexico by Joanna Lentini with her Canon EOS 7D Mark II, and was announced as the Grand Prize Winner.

Read more, and enjoy the other winning photographs from the various prize categories in this blog by Hrag Vartanian at Hyperallergic Magazine.