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A roadrunner stopped at Trump's border wall in the Ariz. desert. A photographer snapped an image.
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A roadrunner stopped at Trump’s border wall in the Ariz. desert. A photographer snapped an award-winning image.
Alejandro Prieto's photo of a roadrunner looking at the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was honored with the top prize in the 2021 Bird Photographer of the Year awards. (Courtesy of Alejandro Prieto)
By Gina Harkins
Yesterday at 2:21 a.m. EDT
Alejandro Prieto has spent nearly 16 months camped out near the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, where he has documented the barricade’s effect on bobcats, jaguars, sheep and other animals.
He was driving on the U.S. side of the border wall near Naco, Ariz., about two years ago when a roadrunner darted out of the vegetation. Prieto, a wildlife photographer from Guadalajara, Mexico, grabbed his camera as the speedy bird stopped in the middle of a gravel road.
The roadrunner appeared to gaze at the tall barbed-wire-covered wall that cut through the desert. It was there just long enough for Prieto to snap a few shots.
“It was a fleeting moment but full of emotions,” Prieto told The Washington Post.
One of those photos — which he named “Blocked” — received the top prize this month in the annual Bird Photographer of the Year awards, a global competition celebrating avian beauty. It was selected from more than 22,000 submissions.
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By Gina Harkins
Gina Harkins is the editor of Morning Mix at The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2021 after reporting on the Defense Department for a decade at Military Times and Military.com. Twitter https://twitter.com/ginaaharkins
A roadrunner stopped at Trump’s border wall in the Ariz. desert. A photographer snapped an award-winning image.
Alejandro Prieto's photo of a roadrunner looking at the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border was honored with the top prize in the 2021 Bird Photographer of the Year awards. (Courtesy of Alejandro Prieto)
By Gina Harkins
Yesterday at 2:21 a.m. EDT
Alejandro Prieto has spent nearly 16 months camped out near the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, where he has documented the barricade’s effect on bobcats, jaguars, sheep and other animals.
He was driving on the U.S. side of the border wall near Naco, Ariz., about two years ago when a roadrunner darted out of the vegetation. Prieto, a wildlife photographer from Guadalajara, Mexico, grabbed his camera as the speedy bird stopped in the middle of a gravel road.
The roadrunner appeared to gaze at the tall barbed-wire-covered wall that cut through the desert. It was there just long enough for Prieto to snap a few shots.
“It was a fleeting moment but full of emotions,” Prieto told The Washington Post.
One of those photos — which he named “Blocked” — received the top prize this month in the annual Bird Photographer of the Year awards, a global competition celebrating avian beauty. It was selected from more than 22,000 submissions.
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By Gina Harkins
Gina Harkins is the editor of Morning Mix at The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2021 after reporting on the Defense Department for a decade at Military Times and Military.com. Twitter https://twitter.com/ginaaharkins
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The environmental and long-term ecological effects that the courts refused to consider will be immense.
