Forests
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 are the Large Scimitar Babbler and the Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush from the beautiful Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand.
Photographed: June 15, 2019 | Published: Nov 22, 2019.
Large Scimitar Babbler photographed at the Ban Nong Nam, Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
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The Lesser Necklaced Laughingthrush is also found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. Photographed at Ban Nong Nam, Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
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