Wildlife Photographer of the Year – People’s Choice 2023

A shortlist of 25 images has been selected for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice award. Vote for your favourite image online, with the winner announced on 7 February 2024. The 25 images are currently on display at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London

Main image: A snowshoe hare pauses in the Rocky mountain national park, US. Photograph: Deena Sveinsson/Wildlife Photographer of the Year/PA

  • The Grassland Geladas

    Gelada monkeys in the Simien mountains of Ethiopia
    Two monkeys, one with infant monkey at breast, against dark sky

  • Troublemaker

    An Adelie penguin approaches an emperor penguin and its chick during feeding time in Antarctica’s Atka Bay
    Three penguins on ice

  • Swallow Over Meadow

    A barn swallow flies over a meadow of cornflowers in eastern Germany
    A barn swallow flies over a meadow of cornflowers

  • Ice Bed

    A polar bear snoozes on receding ice in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago
    A polar bear snoozing on a small piece of ice

  • The Happy Turtle

    A Balkan pond turtle snapping at a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Israel’s Jezreel Valley
    A Balkan pond turtle with its neck in air attempting to snap up dragonfly

  • Starling Murmuration

    A murmuration of starlings makes shapes in the sky above Rome, Italy
    A murmuration of starlings in grey sky makes shape that looks like bird

  • Bull in a Garbage Dump

    A bull elephant surrounded by stray dogs stomps through rubbish as it scavenges at a dump in Tissamaharama, Sri Lanka
    A bull elephant looking through garbage on grassland, surrounded by stray dogs

  • Neighbourhood Dispute

    A mudskipper fiercely defends its territory from a trespassing crab in Roebuck Bay, Australia
    A mudskipper and a crab face to face

  • Opportunity Fox

    A young red fox scavenges in a bin in London
    A young red fox looks out from a litter bin

  • Looking At Me, Looking At You

    A grizzly bear in the Chilko River, British Columbia, Canada
    A grizzly bear standing in water on its hind legs

  • Homecoming by Dvir Barkay

    A pygmy round-eared bat returns to its termite-nest home in the lowland forests of Costa Rica
    A pygmy round-eared bat returns to a termite nest

  • Curiosity

    A mother lion keeps a watchful eye while her cub goes exploring in South Africa’s Kruger national park
    Female lion lying down and cub padding through sand towards camera

  • Duckling Huddle

    Wood duckling chicks huddle together for warmth in a late spring snowstorm in Smiggin Holes, New South Wales, Australia
    Wood duck with chicks huddled together

  • Autumn Glow

    Bulrushes and quaking aspens line the Cabriel River in the Sierra de Albarracin mountains in Spain
    Bulrushes and orange leaves of quaking aspens

  • Tough Negotiation

    A red fox cub eyes a shrew in the Judean foothills, Israel
    A red fox cub in a cave looking down at a shrew

  • Fashion Victims

    Confiscated coats in Hamburg made from the skins of some of the most endangered big cats
    Confiscated coats made from the skins of some of the most endangered big cats on hangers

  • Tender Touch by Andy Parkinson, UK

    Two courting mountain hares in the Monadhliath mountains of Scotland
    Two courting mountain hares with mouths together

  • Rubbish Drinks

    A Celebes crested macaque investigates the contents of a plastic bottle from a pile on a beach at the edge of Tangkoko Batuangus nature reserve, Indonesia
    A Celebes crested macaque attempting to drink from a plastic bottle among a lot of dumped plastic bottles

  • A Rare Sight

    An Ethiopian wolf keeps an eye out in Ethiopia’s Bale mountains national park
    An Ethiopian wolf with ears pricked and dark blue flowers in background

  • Aurora Jellie

    Moon jellyfish swarm in the waters of a fjord outside Tromso in northern Norway illuminated by the aurora borealis
    Moon jellyfish swarm in the waters of a fjord illuminated by the aurora borealis

  • Incoming Cuckoo Wasp

    A cuckoo wasp tries to enter a mason bee’s clay burrow near Montpellier, France
    A cuckoo wasp trying to enter a mason bee’s clay burrow

  • Shared Parenting

    A lion cub gets lots of attention in Maasai Mara, Kenya
    A cub between two female lions which are licking it

  • Hope by Roberto Garcia-Roa, Spain

    A rescued chimpanzee looks on from its enclosure at the Chimpanzee conservation centre in the Republic of Guinea
    A chimpanzee looks with fingers clutching bars

  • Missed Sip of Milk

    Milk from a humpback whale swirls through the water, missed by her whale calf off the coast of Rurutu, French Polynesia
    A humpback whale calf and swirls of white

  • Snowshoes

    A snowshoe hare pauses in the Rocky mountain national park, US
    a white hare in snow
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