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PIC SUPPLIED BY GEOFF ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHY 07976 880732...PICTURE TO BE CREDITED TO Cristóbal Serrano..OVERALL WINNING PIC SHOWS A cormorant in a frenetic pursuit trying to capture one of the thousand grunt fishes taken in Mexico... These stunning pictures of birds flying, feeding, fighting and foraging are all winning entries in a world bird photo competition which featured an incredible 3,000 different species.. .The remarkable collection includes a cormorant diving with a shoal of fish, a Crested Honey-buzzard surrounded by bees and a vulture attacking a wolf.. .More than 12,000 pictures from 128 countries were submitted to the Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) world bird photo competition.. .The winning shots feature a flock of Red-Billed Quelea swarming round an elephant and a fluffy family of Tree Swallows sitting on a branch in a snow storm.. .One picture shows a brightly-coloured Red-bearded Bee-eater flying home with food for her chicks, while another features a Corncrake preparing for lift-off.. .A Red Grouse has been cleverly captured on camera foraging by British photographer Ron McCombe, while another picture shows Cape Gannet diving underwater for their dinner.SEE COPY CATCHLINE WORLD BIRD PHOTO COMP.

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Uploaded on June 16, 2012
Taken on June 16, 2012