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Top 10 Wild Bird Photos Award winners!
Last week's theme was "Portrait Birds".
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Common Buzzard photographed by Avi Hirschfield in Israel.
Tūī photographed by Tony Stoddard in New Zealand.
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This week's theme is - Multi-coloured birds.
There is no science to this one, we are just looking for pics of birds that are made up of more than one colour.
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📷Antillean Euphonia, by Alfredo Irizarry.
Top 10 Wild Bird Photos Award winners - Plungers
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Crested Kingfisher📷Mahesh Jagdale Patil in India. Atlantic Puffin📷Edwin Godinho in the UK.
River Tern📷Indranil Bhattacharjee in India.
Brown Pelican📷Tim Nicol in the USA.
2 pairing Australasian Gannets exquisitely captured by Ringo Dingo in Australia.
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Did you know that Artic Terns migrate between the most Northern and Southern hemispheres of the Earth? Some Artic Terns fly almost 100 000km in a year.
Artic Tern, photographed by Gargi Biswas in Farne Islands, UK.
Top 10 Wild Bird Photos Award winners - Waders.
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Pheasant-tailed Jacana📷Rajesh Mahajan in India.
Pheasant-tailed Jacana📷Dr SS Suresh in India.
White-faced Heron📷Tony Stoddard in New Zealand.
Black-winged Stilt📷Pankaj Kapoor in India.
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This week's theme - Plungers.
Plungers are mostly made up of seabirds, they find food by flying over water & when they spot something they dive down to retrieve it.
📷 Northern Gannets captured by Edwin Godinho in the UK.
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According to Birdlife International's State of the World's Birds 2022 report, birds play an important role in ecosystems.
An example of how one species can impact an ecosystem is that of a Hornbill; they can disperse up to 12,700 large seeds per day per km2.
📷Pradyut Choudhury
Did you know that the Eurasian Spoonbill is mostly silent?
This Eurasian Spoonbill was spotted and magnificently captured by Ashit Gandhi in India.
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Top 10 Wild Bird Photos Award winners -"Raptors".
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Peregrine Falcon 📷 John LeeWong in the USA.
Long-legged Buzzard 📷 Ujjwal Kumar Das in India.
Northern Pygmy-Owl 📷 Tim Nicol in the USA.
White-eyed Buzzard 📷 Pankaj Kapoor in India.
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This week's theme is - Waders.
Waders are waterbirds that don't swim or dive, but rather wade.
African Jacana,📷by Jamie-Lee du Plessis in South Africa.
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Top 10 Wild Bird Photos Award winners!
Last week's theme was "Walkers"
📷Kalij Pheasant by Arun Kumar in India
📷Painted Bush-Quail by Shiva Kumar in India
📷Red-naped Ibis by Vikram Bahal in India
📷Greater Roadrunner by John LeeWong in CA, USA
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What an interesting-looking bird, kind of like a mix between a crane & an eagle. This Secretarybird was captured by Rene Rossouw in SA.
Secretary Birds kill their prey by kicking it with their feet. Their prey is varied, but they are most famous for eating snakes.
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Thank you for the opportunity to share why protecting the Okavango Basin is so important for the planet, for nature, and for people!
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Take a look at these inquisitive Puerto Rican Screech-Owls captured by Alfredo Irizarry in Puerto Rico.
They are common in Puerto Rico but are critically endangered on the Virgin Islands.
What a special capture for our birds from your continent theme.
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