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Gold 2024 Nature / Wildlife

The Neighbours to The Rescue

  • Photographer
    Alex Brackx
  • Prize
    Gold in Nature / Wildlife

The neighbours to the rescue. The Nobbies view point, Phillip Island, Australia. I was taking pictures of a Silver Gull colony on Phillip Island when I saw a Silver Gull snatching away a juvenile gull from its nest. Immediately the parent and the neighbours of that nest were chasing the thief . All this happened in the air above me and I was able to observe this attack , the high speed chase and the rescue of the juvenile by the parent and the helping neighbours . The gull on the left is the attacker, the other gulls are the rescuers .

Alex Brackx is a wildlife photographer living in Belgium. He started to pursue wildlife photography in 2010 while travelling in South and Central America. Through further travels in Asia, Belarus, Finland, and again South America, he began to hone his craft, travelling to film and take photos of wildlife. Amongst his favorite areas are Kenya, Botswana, Svalbard, Scandinavia, Tasmania and Mongolia . For Alex, it is a thrill to photograph his observations of mammals and birds in different landscapes, jungles, deserts and oceans all over the world .