In arid inland Australia lives one of Australia’s rarest birds: the night parrot. Missing for more than a century, a live population was rediscovered in 2013. But the species remains elusive. Until recently, Australia’s known night parrot population numbered in the tens of birds, scattered across desert in Queensland and Western Australia. But our research...

Photographers from all over the world entered more than 23,000 images into the competition, each with their eyes on the £3,500 grand prize.  Photographer Patricia Homonylo, from Canada, was declared the Bird Photographer of the Year for her thought-provoking image ‘When Worlds Collide’. The photograph shows birds killed by colliding with windows and other reflective...