Emma Parker, Lioness Bird (ANIMAL & NATURE 2022)

The cattle egret literally transforms during breeding season, despite their small size the volume of feathers and colour create an almost lion like appearance - I took these photos over two different breeding seasons in NSW, Australia. Durng covid I had the opportunity of looking at every day birds around me and really seeing the changes during breeding

Images have been resized for web display, which may cause some loss of image quality. Note: Original high-resolution images are used for judging.