Results Photos Rare Bird Photographer With Themes in World

International Photography Competition for Photo - photo of the rarest birds in the world by the World's Rarest Birds project was announced last month. The competition, begun in 2010, which aims to secure the pictures of 566 most endangered birds on Earth for a new book that seeks to highlight their plight.

Thousands of images inserted into the competition and hundreds of them will be displayed in The World's Rarest Birds which will be published in 2012. Profits from sales will go to BirdLife International's Preventing Extinctions Programme to help support conservation projects worldwide.

Here are photos of the winners:

The winner or critically endangered in the wild category: Kakapo by Shane McInnes.

Kakapo is a parrot of New Zealand and one of the rarest bird of all burng, with only 124 birds are still alive today. The main cause for the decline is due to predation by mammals, particularly feral cats


Both winners, critical or endangered in the wild category: Brazilian Merganser by Savio Bruno Freire.

A fish-eating duck whose numbers just slightly in fast-flowing river in central Brazil and Argentina southeast. population of less than 250 individuals and continues to decline, the main cause for population decline is due to changes in water flow and pollution


The three winners - critical or endangered in the wild category: Christmas Island frigate bird by David Boyle

A large seabirds that breed only on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Population live about 1220 pairs, and continues in decline, mostly in a single colony.
The main threat to their survival because of the loss of trees for breeding and pollution caused by phosphate mining, cyclones, and possibly ants yellow


The four winners - critically endangered or extinct in the wild category - forest owlet by Jayesh K Joshi

This species has a small population, which is known from fewer than 10 locations recently in central India.

This is possible due to population declines of deciduous forest habitat loss as a place the breeding.

First Winner - category endangered or lack of data (not enough information is known to determine the threat, although it is clear that this species is under threat of extinction): Asian crested ibis by Min Li Quan

A medium-sized water birds which had been raised in Russia, Japan and China, but the population decline in large numbers. Now restricted to mainland China province of Shaanxi in the middle, where only 250 birds are still there, although the population slowly began to increase as a result of conservation measures. The main reason for the decline may be related to loss of suitable foraging due to the change from dry to grow rice and wheat production



Both winners - threatened shortage of data or data categories: Red-crowned crane by Huajin Sun

A huge crane that breeds in eastern Russia and China, and in Japan. Its population currently numbers only 1700 adult birds and continues to decline due to the loss and degradation of wetlands through conversion to agriculture and industrial development


The four winners - and the endangered category or data deficiencies: Great Indian Bustard by Csaba Barkóczi

population decline of this species in central India and north-east are threatened because of poaching and agricultural development


First Winner - Category critically endangered migratory birds: Orange-bellied parrots by David Boyle

A small parrot that only breed in a small area in western Tasmania and migrate to coastal areas in south-eastern Australia in winter. Wild populations may be less than 150 tails and continue to decline may be caused by the loss of winter habitat that makes this bird can survive, as a result of agricultural and urban development and industrial