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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
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Blue
For many years, scientists have known of how the red or yellow colour of feathers is achieved. These colours come from pigments in food the birds eat, meaning that they are diet based. One of the challenges in avian colour has been to figure out how the #blue colour is achieved. Interestingly, it came to light when scientists reported that most birds look blue for the same reason the sky look blue: “Red and yellow wavelengths pass through the atmosphere, but shorter blue wavelengths bounce off of particles and scatter, emitting a blue glow in every direction”.
Featured here is the White-tailed Robin from the beautiful mountains of Chiang Mai - Doi Ang Khang in Thailand.
Photographed: Jan 19, 2019 | Published: May 31, 2019.
White-tailed Robin ranges across the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent and adjacent areas of Southeast Asia (Siddhartha Mukherjee)