Andre Bartschi collected £1500, a bronze statue of an ibis and
several insect stings for this vibrant shot of red-and-green macaws fluttering
away from a riverbank. The birds lick at the clay bank, possibly as a way
of neutralising toxins in some of the plants they feed on. To get his shot,
Bartschi, who lives in Liechtenstein, spent many hours crouching in a cramped,
insect-ridden hide in the Manu Biosphere Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon.
The photograph has won him this year’s British Gas Wildlife Photographer
of the Year Award.
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