Rare Birds Year Book 2009 - Photo and Writing Competition

A new photo competition has just been launched on www.rarebirdsyearbook.com. The author is 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 which is due in October 2008.

Minox Telescope Prize
A new category, with a top prize of a travel-friendly Minox telescope, is instated for the best photo - or painting - of those species that did not feature with photos in the 2008 edition. The competition closes on May 31st.

Writing Competition
New for this year is that there is also a writer´s competition – 'My Encounter with a Critically Endangered Bird' read more by clicking here .

Last year´s competition was a huge success with more than 1000 images being submitted and the best were presented in Rare Birds Yearbook 2008, with each published photographer receiving a free copy of the book of course. The great response makes this a truly unique book covering and illustrating the 189 rarest birds in the world.

2009 Rare Birds List
Check out the revised species list for 2009 and see if you have photos of any of these rare birds. Enter the competition and have the chance to win one of the great prizes from Minox, Lynx Edicions or BirdLife International, apart from seeing your picture(s) published in Rare Birds Yearbook 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 www.birdlife.org , to be used for the protection and conservation of these exclusive species.

 

The Rare Birds Yearbook provides an upto date snapshot of the precarious state of 189 of the most critically endangered bird species in the world. Population size and trend, location, threats and conservation actions are all detailed for such rarities as the White-eyed River martin and the Kinglet Calyptura, both with less than 50 birds in existence.

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