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Jun 28, 2022, 11 tweets

11 standout #animal photos from this year's Urban #Wildlife Photo Awards

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Interisano's winning photo was taken in the Ontario, #Canada, town of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

"I thought it was my car that had caught their attention as I rounded the corner, and maybe it had at first," the amateur photographer told Picfair of the #animals in his photo.

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.@Austin_Montero1's photo shows a rat moments after emerging from a sewer. The biologist took the winning photo in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

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Jill Finney, an amateur photographer, took home a prize after capturing a raccoon crawling through a drain pipe in Toronto, #Canada.

"I've dreamed of photographing wildlife since I was a kid and only started seriously shooting at the age of 50," she told @Picfair.

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"I had spotted the lonely flamingo on the water from the opposite bank and had to move quickly in position, anticipating (or rather hoping) it would line up with the wooden frame for a shot," Mano Aliczki, zoologist and amateur photographer told @Picfair.

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Taken in Melbourne, #Australia, Leigh Henningham's photo shows a swan getting close and personal with her while swimming through the city's botanical gardens.

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Paul Simpson took his nominated photo in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. The data analyst told Picfair that he had actually been looking to photograph squirrels the night he captured this image.

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Panama Barak was in Kingston, Jamaica, when he stumbled upon these monkeys chewing bread. He told Picfair that he especially likes to photograph these animals because they're "photogenic" and "human-like."

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Brandon Z told @Picfair that he noticed the lizard sitting atop a statue while in Miami, Florida.

"He didn't move the whole time I was there — it looked as if he belonged," he said.

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Matko Petrić told @Picfair that the cat in his nominated image — taken in Croatia — had been waiting for a fish near the small ship when he snapped his photo.

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Leanne Hay told @Picfair that she had been waiting for the sunrise in Toronto, Canada, when around 6:30 a.m., "cormorants started flying in slowly, and then by the hundreds."

"The sound they make on mass is unforgettable," the amateur photographer added.

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