Explore the stunning winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Birds of a Feather Flock – A photographer also captured Western toad tadpoles huddled under a lily pad in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Shane Gross.

Gross, that great image swarm of life Today, he won the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award and spent hours snorkeling in the lake's cool waters to take photos. He had almost given up when he discovered that “armies of tadpoles were marching en masse from the deeper and safer ends of the ocean.”