THE PHOTO COMPETITIONS
The World’s Rarest Birds will feature the images submitted to two prestigious international photographic competitions. The first competition closed at the end of August 2010, and the winners are shown below. The results of a second competition to secure mages of the species still required for the book will be announced when the book is published in 2012.
The first World's Rarest Birds Photo Competition had three categories, and the winning entries in each were as follows (only the first to fourth placed-images are shown here):
CATEGORY 1 – Critically Endangered or Extinct in the Wild
Winner: Shane McInnes, with a wonderful image of a Critically Endangered Kakapo.
Runner-up: Sávio Freire Bruno, with a captivating photo of a Critically Endangered Brazilian Merganser with ducklings.
Third place: David Boyle, with a fantastic image of a Critically Endangered Christmas Island Frigatebird in flight.
Fourth place: Dr Jayesh K Joshi, with a lovely image of a calling Critically Endangered Forest Owlet from India.
Fifth place: Robert E Hyman, with an excellent study of a Critically Endangered Honduran Emerald hummingbird.
Sixth place: Eric VanderWerf, with a superb study of a Critically Endangered Palila from Hawaii.
CATEGORY 2 – Endangered or Data Deficient
Winner: Quan Min Li, with a beautiful photo of a Endangered Asian Crested Ibis from China, in flight.
Runner-up: Huajin Sun, with an amazing photo of a displaying Endangered Red-crowned Crane from East Asia.
Third place: Daniel Rosengren, with a lovely image of an Endangered Marvellous Spatuletail, a hummingbird from Peru.
Fourth place: Csaba Barkóczi, with a wonderful photo of an Endangered Great Indian Bustard in flight.
Fifth place: Martin Hale, with a stunning image of a pair of Endangered Scaly-sided Mergansers from China.
Sixth place: Tim Rumble, with a beautiful study of an Endangered New Zealand Dotterel.
CATEGORY 3 – Critically Endangered migratory species
Winner: David Boyle, with a touching image of a pair of Critically Endangered Orange-bellied Parrots from Tasmania.
The World’s Rarest Project team is very grateful to Minox, Lynx Edicions, BirdLife International, WILDGuides, Princeton University Press and the World Migratory Bird Day for kindly supporting the project by providing a range of attractive prizes for the competition. These will be now be presented to the winning photographers.
