- 1st Place, Sporting Field of Play
- Seamus Murphy/Sports Illustrated
“PECKING ORDER”
May 2007.Afghanistan. Friday Bodahna Bird fight, Kabul
In Kabul, bettors engage in what is a widespread (if underground) obsession among many Afghan men: Bodahna bird fighting. The small quail peck at each other until one of the combatants repeatedly runs away. The equivalent of thousands of dollars can change hands.
Credit: Seamus Murphy
- 1st
- Seamus Murphy
- Sports Illustrated
- 2nd
- Matt Marton
- Daily Southtown
- 3rd
- Jonathan Newton
- The Washington Post
- HM
- STEVEN ACHIAM
- Dagbladet Børsen/Grazia Neri
- HM
- Nhat V. Meyer
- San Jose Mercury News
- HM
- Kevin Lorenzi
- Beaver County Times
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