In Pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 winners

The annual photography contest, developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London, attracted 49,000 entries from around the world. The Grand Title winner went to Sergey Gorshkov for his image of a Siberian tiger hugging a tree.

Updated
Oct 20, 2020, 02:42 PM
Published
Oct 20, 2020, 09:50 AM
With an expression of sheer ecstasy, a tigress hugs an ancient Manchurian fir, rubbing her cheek against bark to leave secretions from her scent glands. PHOTO: SERGEY GORSHKOV/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A clownfish swimming within an anemone, with a 'tongue-eating louse' peeping out of its mouth. PHOTO: SAM SLOSS/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2020
A young male proboscis monkey cocks his head slightly and closes his eyes. PHOTO: MOGENS TROLLE/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A young pig-tailed macaque is put on show chained to a wooden cage in Bali’s bird market, Indonesia. PHOTO: PAUL HILTON/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A wire muzzle stops the polar bear biting back, and blue safety netting surrounds the circus ring. PHOTO: KRISTEN LUCE/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A tiny diamondback squid paralarva flits below in the blackness and gilds itself in shimmering gold. PHOTO: SONGDA CAI/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A rare picture of a family of Pallas’s cats, or manuls, on the remote steppes of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in northwest China. PHOTO: SHANYUAN LI/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
The giant riverine tiger beetle pursues prey on the ground, its bright orange spots a warning to predators that it uses poison (cyanide) for protection. PHOTO: RIPAN BISWAS/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A Manduriacu glass frog snacks on a spider in the foothills of the Andes, northwestern Ecuador. PHOTO: JAMIE CULEBRAS/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
The vixen attempts to eat the barnacle goose in a crevice. PHOTO: LIINA HEIKKINEN/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
The female Cordilleran flycatcher paused to check on her four nestlings. PHOTO: ALEX BADYAEV/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
An intimate moment of a great crested grebe family. PHOTO: JOSE LUIS RUIZ/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A red-banded sand wasp (left) and a cuckoo wasp, about to enter next-door nest holes. PHOTO: FRANK DESCHANDOL/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
A stonechats perched on a flower stem, which began to bend under its delicate weight. PHOTO: ANDRES LUIS DOMINGUEZ/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
On the steep cliffs of a Sardinian island, a male Eleonora’s falcon brings his mate food – a small migrant, probably a lark, snatched from the sky as it flew over the Mediterranean. PHOTO: ALBERTO FANTONI/WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

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