Winning photos of wild birds

High jumping grouse, white swan, pelicans are three of the winning photos of the International Wildbird Photographer 2008 Award.

The photo of the black grouse jumped off the ground won the first prize in the "Behavior" category.Photo: Tom Schandy (Norway).

Gentoo penguins in the North Pole. He won the first prize in the category "Birds of the World" by Roy Mangersnes (Norway).

Photo of the lemongrass bird was nominated for a prize in the "Flying Bird" category. This bee-eating bird is famous for its slings and acrobatics when confessing to each other. Photo: Bence Máté.

The author of this gray heron image won the "Best amateur photographer" award.Photo: Michael Gallagher (England).

The photo of the black woodpecker headed the "Flying bird" category. Photo: Marcus Varesvuo (Finland).

The photo of the ginseng bird won the first prize in the category "Birds in the UK". Photo: Andy Parkinson (UK).

Dalmatian pelicans. This is the largest of the pelicans, with an average length of 170 cm and a weight of 11 kg. Their wingspan can be more than 3 meters. The photo was nominated for a prize in the category "Birds of the World".Photo: Bence Máté.

Swan Whooper. The winning photo in the competition was taken in southern Sweden in a temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius. Photo: Mart Smit (Netherlands).

The picture of the giant mountain sparrow heralded the first prize in the "Bird" category. Photo: Jose Grandio (Spain).

This is still the bird flock in the picture of Jose Grandio, but in the farther position, while hovering over a forest. Photo: Jose Grandio (Spain).

Herds of mountain finches after falling down form countless tiny dots like leaves. Photo: Jose Grandio (Spain).