Bird Watching
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week
The Wild Bird Revolution by Steve Boyes is about sharing awesome images of wild birds from all over the world with the people of the world! Their mission is to build a global community around the freedom and beauty of birds in the wild as ambassadors for the natural ecosystems that they depend upon.
The Wild Bird Revolution aims to publish the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week” to 1 million people every week. That is a revolution that will change the world!
Steve Boyes is a Fellow of the National Geographic Society and a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer for his work in the Okavango Delta and on the Cape Parrot Project. He has dedicated his life to conserving Africa’s wilderness areas and the species that depend upon them. After having worked as a camp manager and wilderness guide in the Okavango Delta and doing his PhD field work on the little-known Meyer’s Parrot, Steve took up a position as a Centre of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. In 2019 Steve and the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project won the Rolex Explorer of the year
Forests
Forests are very productive ecosystems accounting for a third of the earth’s primary productivity. This productivity, and their many layers from forest floor to canopy, make them a great habitat for many bird species across the globe. However, anthropogenic factors such as logging, introduction of invasive species, and land conversion for agriculture, have reduced the amount of forest cover, and thus reduced the amount of available habitat for birds that call these areas home.
Featured here is the Rufous-backed Kingfisher from the tropical forests of Hulu Langat in Malaysia.
Photographed: Aug 19, 2018 | Published: April 05, 2019.
Read my three part series on Kingfishers: Part I, Part II, Part III.
Rufous-backed Kingfisher in Hulu Langat, Selangor, Malaysia (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The rufous-backed kingfisher is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher. The oriental dwarf kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca), also known as the black-backed kingfisher or three-toed kingfisher, is a species of bird in the family Alcedinidae. A widespread resident of lowland forest, it is endemic across much of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. This is a small, red and yellow kingfisher, averaging 13 cm (5.1 in) in length, yellow underparts with glowing bluish-black upperparts. The preferred habitat is small streams in densely shaded forests.
Read my three part series on Kingfishers: Part I, Part II, Part III.