Orange-headed Thrushes are found in wooded areas of southern Asia from India through Southeast Asia (photo by Kishore Bakshi). An impressive image of a Streaked Spiderhunter was photographed at Bukit Fraser, Malaysia, by Senthil Kumar Damodaran

Today, birders are using amazing affordable digital cameras with telephoto and zoom lenses to deliver brilliant digital bird photographs to online communities. The mission of the Wild Bird Trust’s newest bird-oriented program is to build a global community around the freedom and beauty of birds in the wild as ambassadors for the natural ecosystems they depend upon. The Wild Birds! Revolution aims to publish the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week” to a million people by the end of the year with the help of the National Geographic Society and other organizations. View this week’s remarkable selection of birds now, to better appreciate our world filled with an amazing variety of birds.

You can join other birders, photographers, naturalists, hikers, guides, scientists, conservationists, and artists that share the thousands of wild bird photographs submitted to the Wild Bird Trust website and Facebook page. Millions of wild bird enthusiasts are photographing our planet’s beautiful birdlife. Pick up your camera, fill your bird feeders, open your heart, and join the Wild Birds! Revolution. It’s a revolution that can change the world, according to Abigail Ramudzuli, Campaign Director at The Wild Bird Trust.

Abigail added that birds are the music, decorations, and character of every terrestrial habitat on the planet. They are the witnesses and ambassadors of the awesome power of nature through the millennia. Now, the wide availability of good affordable optics has opened the photographic view to birds from around the world to enthusiastic birders and other interested people. We live in a day and age when birds seem to be even more important to humanity around the world than ever before.

To review the remarkable collection of 25 bird photos taken by 25 photographers, see https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2019/05/10/top-25-wild-bird-photographs-of-the-week-may/ and check back weekly to see what new birds you will find among the amazing weekly collections shared by The Wild Bird Trust and National Geographic.