{"id":1586,"date":"2008-02-28T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/28\/rare-birds-yearbook-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T20:36:00","slug":"rare-birds-yearbook-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/rare-birds-yearbook-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Birds Yearbook 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-44fb61d67794ab3d4b746de27976cb63-rare_birds.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-44fb61d67794ab3d4b746de27976cb63-rare_birds.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0955260736?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0955260736\">Rare Birds Yearbook 2008: The World&#8217;s 189 Most Threatened Birds<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0955260736\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is, according to BirdLife International, proving to be a great success.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year&#8217;s Rare Birds Yearbook photo competition was a huge success with more than 1,000 images being submitted and the best were presented in Rare Birds Yearbook 2008, with each published photographer receiving a free copy of the book.The photo competition for Rare Birds Yearbook 2009 has just been launched and will run until 31 May 2008. This year sees a few exciting differences in the competition format.A new category, with a top prize of a travel-friendly Minox telescope, has been introduced for the best photo &#8211; or painting &#8211; of those species that did not feature with photos in the 2008 edition.There is a completely new contest for this year, a writer&#8217;s competition on the subject &#8220;My Encounter with a Critically Endangered Bird&#8221;. The first prize for this is a copy of the wonderful The Fifty Rarest Birds of the World. This leatherbound volume features stunning images painted by world-renowned wildlife artist Blake Twigden.An important objective of Rare Birds Yearbook is to create funds to save these Critically Endangered birds. That is why for every book sold \u00c2\u00a34 is donated to BirdLife International, to be used exclusively for the protection and conservation of these species.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare Birds Yearbook 2008: The World&#8217;s 189 Most Threatened Birds is, according to BirdLife International, proving to be a great success. Last year&#8217;s Rare Birds Yearbook photo competition was a huge success with more than 1,000 images being submitted and the best were presented in Rare Birds Yearbook 2008, with each published photographer receiving a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/rare-birds-yearbook-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rare Birds Yearbook 2008<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,40,221],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-pA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}