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A writer’s budding friendship with Oleksandr Nastachenko offers a window into the besieged country’s small but resourceful community of birders and what they have lost since the Russian invasion.

There's some really good ones this year.

Overall winner: Kumlien’s Gull and Friends, Rebecca Nason. A close up of a Kumlien’s Gull’s eye, with speckled markings that aren’t quite what they