Audubon Magazine Photography Awards
Photo Finish
Get ready to be awed because here, for your viewing pleasure, are the winners of the 2010 Audubon Magazine Photography Awards.
Text by Kenn Kaufman
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Audubon Magazine Photography Awards
Photo Gallery: Top 100
Many were called, and more than 1,300 answered. It was a tough task, but we've whittled 8,000 great images down to 100 fantastic ones. See a slideshow here.

Audubon Center
The Enchanted Forest
An ancient cypress swamp thrives in the heart of South Carolina’s Low Country, protected from encroaching urban sprawl by a sweet-talking, forest-guarding good neighbor.
By Frank Graham Jr./Photography by Peter Frank Edwards
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True Nature
Pecking Order
Bird beaks are more than nature’s ingenious designs. They’re wonders of evolution, barometers of how
species react to—and sometimes even instigate—changes in their environment. 
By Peter Friederici/Photography by Joel Sartore

Birds
Ready, Aim, Fire!
Bird-hunting plantations in the Southeast serve as de
facto wildlife refuges, offering hope for a range of plants and animals, including the embattled bobwhite quail.
By T. Edward Nickens/Photography by Rob Howard

Editor’s Note
By David Seideman

Audubon View
By David Yarnold
 
Audubon in Action
Saving Vaux’s swifts and black-footed ferrets; honoring former Audubon chair Donal O’Brien; more.
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Field Notes
What the new U.S. Congress means for the environment; white-nose syndrome on the move; what’s the eco-friendly choice, bound book or e-book?; more.
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Incite
Saddle Sores
Fiction: Feral horses, glorious symbols of America’s past, should run wild and free forever. Fact: Feral horses are devastating habitat across the West, threatening native wildlife as they go.
By Ted Williams

Earth Almanac
Walruses in love; winter’s wildflower; fine-tasting butterflies; a rail that’s easy to hail; more.
By Ted Williams

Reviews
The Mating Game
Biologist Bernd Heinrich explores the many ways that birds create, and then tend to, their offspring.
By Wayne Mones

One Picture
Strong as a Muskox
Braving a frigid northern winter for a remarkable shot of one of nature’s most specialized animals.
Photo by Vincent Munier/Text by Julie Leibach

On the cover: A pyrrhuloxia shot for the Audubon Magazine Photography Awards by  Laura Stafford of Tucson, Arizona.

Banner images: Snowy owl, by Brian Hansen; Bill Palmer, director of Tall Timbers’ game bird program, by Rob Howard; palm cockatoo, by Joel Sartore; walrus, by Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden Pictures.