Solar Shadows and Wingbeats: Inside the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year Awards

Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman spent more than a year preparing for one very specific moment. After a week of scouting along Mexico’s Sinaloa coastline, his patience and timing came together in an image that feels almost unreal: a Magnificent frigatebird crossing the darkened sun during a total solar eclipse. That photograph earned him the title…