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PHOTO STORY WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
MUD-ROLLING MUD-DAUBER
GEORGINA STEYTLER, AUSTRALIA
Winner, Behaviour: Invertebrates
On a hot day at Walyormouring Nature
Reserve, Western Australia, Georgina
spotted these female slender mud-
dauber wasps excavating material for
their nests. Georgina lay in the mud and
began shooting whenever one entered
the frame. After hundreds of attempts
she captured this shot of two wasps
displaying their mud-handling skills.
SIGNATURE TREE
ALEJANDRO PRIETO, MEXICO.
Winner,Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Story
A male jaguar scratches his
signature into a tree at the edge
of his territory in the Sierra de
Vallejo, western Mexico. Alejandro’s
custom-built camera-trap was in
place for eight months before the
jaguar triggered this shot.
78 BBC Wildlife November 2018
