Here are the top five images voted for by the public in this year’s People’s Choice Award
More than 50,000 images were entered into Wildlife Photographer of the Year last year, but our panel of judges can only award 100 finalists.
A further 25 memorable images from this year’s entries have been shortlisted by the judges and the Natural History Museum. We then ask the public to help us select the recipient of the People’s Choice Award.
You can see all of the shortlisted images on display in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London until 30 June 2024.
© Nima Sarikhani / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Ice Bed. Winner, People’s Choice Award. A polar bear carves out a bed from a small iceberg before drifting off to sleep in the Far North, off Norway’s Svalbard archipelago.
© Daniel Dencescu / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Starling Murmuration. Highly Commended. A mesmerizing mass of starlings swirls into the shape of a giant bird on their way to communal roosts above the city of Rome, Italy.
© Mark Boyd / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Shared Parenting. Highly Commended. A pair of lionesses groom one of the pride’s five cubs in Kenya’s Maasai Mara. Early in the morning, Boyd watched as these lionesses groomed one of their five cubs in their territory. The evening before, they’d set off to hunt, leaving the cubs hidden overnight in dense bushes. Returning from their unsuccessful mission, they’d called the cubs out onto the open grassland.
© Tzahi Finkelstein / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
The Happy Turtle. Highly Commended. A Balkan pond turtle shares a moment of peaceful coexistence with a northern banded groundling dragonfly in Israel’s Jezreel Valley.
© Audun Rikardsen / Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Aurora Jellies. Highly Commended. Moon jellyfish swarm in the cool autumnal waters of a fjord outside Tromsø, in northern Norway, illuminated by the aurora borealis. #
Source: NHM
