Photos: The world's rarest birds
The winners of the top prizes in each category of the 2010 photo competition on the world's rarest birds have just been announced. The contest is part of an effort to protect more than 566 rare bird species threatened with extinction.
Below are some of the award-winning photos
Photographer Shane McInnes's image of the rare kakapo won first prize in the
Critically Endangered Birds category.
Photographer Savio Freire Bruno took second place in the Critically Endangered Birds
category with his photo of a Brazilian merganser mother and her young in Brazil.
Third place in the Critically Endangered Birds category went to photographer David
Boyle for his shot of a frigatebird soaring over Christmas Island (Australia).
In the Critically Endangered Birds category, fourth prize went to a photo of an
owl in Maharashtra (India) by Jayesh K Joshi.
Fifth prize in the Critically Endangered Birds category went to Eric
VanderWerf for his photo of a palila in Hawaii (US).
In the Endangered Birds category, Quan Min Li won first prize with
a striking shot of an ibis in flight.
Second place in the Endangered Birds category went to photographer
Huajin Sun for an image of a red-crowned crane dancing in mid-air.
Daniel Rosengren won third prize in the Endangered Birds category with
an adorable photo of a hummingbird in Peru
Fourth in the Endangered Birds category was a photo of a bustard in the Great
Indian Desert (India) by Csaba Barkóczi.
Fifth prize in the Endangered Birds category went to a photo of a
scaly-patterned duck by Martin Hale, taken in China.
David Boyle won first prize in the Critically Endangered Migratory
Birds category with a photo of two orange-bellied parrots in Tasmania.
Adam Riley's photo of a bald ibis took second place in the Critically Endangered
Migratory Birds category
