Photo prize winners - Rare Birds Year Book 2009

Fifth prize. Spoonbilled sandpiper. Copyright Zheng Jianping, China.

The winners of the http://www.rarebirdsyearbook.com/ competition have been announced. The author was looking for photos of the rarest birds in the world, those categorized as Critically Endangered, to be featured in the next edition of Rare Birds Yearbook.

2009 Rare Birds List
See the revised species list for 2009.

Donation to Bird Conservation
An important objective of Rare Birds Yearbook is to create funds to save these rare birds. That is why £4.00 for every book sold is donated to the partner in this project, BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/ , to be used for the protection and conservation of these exclusive species.

Second prize. Belding's Yellowthroat By Javier Lascurain, Mexico.

Third prize. Puerto Rican Nightjar. By Michael J. Morel, USA.

Fourth prize. Spoon-billed Sandpiper. By Chaiwat Chinuparawat, Thailand.

First prize. Lear's Macaws in flight. By Andy and Gill Swash, UK.