Top 25 birds of the week: Predatory Birds!
Thank you to all the photographers that submitted photos of birds with the theme #PredatoryBirds. We admire birds for their beauty and their ability to fly and most importantly for the role they play in the ecosystem. These pictures create awareness about the variety and beauty of birds in our environment. Here we present the Top 25 photographs of birds of the week.

White-eyed Buzzard (Butastur teesa). Photographed in Tal chhapar Churu, Rajasthan, India (Renu Kohli)

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). Photographed at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey, USA (Kelly Hunt)

Although the Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) does not normally attack larger prey, they have been spotted killing young, unhealthy or weak animals. Photographed in Drôme, France (Christian Bagnol)

Oriental Honey-buzzard or Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus). Photographed in Haryana, India (Lalit Arora)

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus). Photographed at the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve,W.B, India (Bratin Bhattacharya)

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Photographed at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey, USA (Kelly Hunt)

The Changeable Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus) is also known as the Crested Hawk-eagle. Photographed at the Nagarhole National Park, Kabini, Karnataka, India (Sivaraman K)

Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis). Photo taken at Little Rann of Kutch, Gujrat, India (Kuldip Jaswal)

Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus). Photographed in Dholbaha, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India (Rajesh Mahajan)

Our 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. They are the music, decoration, and character of every terrestrial habitat on the planet and have been around since the dinosaurs. They are the witnesses and ambassadors of the awesome power of nature. The wide availability of good, cheap optics has opened their world to us for the last few decades. Amazing, affordable DSLR cameras with long lenses are delivering brilliant digital bird imagery to online communities. We are in a day-and-age during which more bird species are threatened with extinction than ever before. The Wild Birds! Revolution aims to publish the “Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week” to 1 million people every week by the end of the year. That is a revolution that will change the world! Join thousands of other weekend naturalists, photographers, birders, experts, hikers, nature-lovers, guides, scientists, conservationists and artists that share the thousands of wild bird photographs submitted to the Wild Bird Trust website and Facebook page. Thousands of wild bird enthusiasts are going out every day to photograph our planet’s beautiful birdlife. Pick up your camera, fill your bird feeder, open your heart, and join the Wild Birds! Revolution!! Edited by Abigail Ramudzuli, Campaign Manager