Submit a photograph
The photographs in this guide are under a Creative Commons licence or in the public domain and show free-living wild birds. Anyone with such a photograph can offer it here.
Each species has one main photograph and, below it, additions: the other sex, winter plumage, a young bird, a chick. A submitted photograph is considered if it shows a plumage or a stage the page still lacks, or is clearly better than what is there. The author judges every submission himself; nothing goes on the site automatically. Replies are sent by e-mail.
What a photograph must meet
- A free, living, wild bird in the field — no cage, mesh, fence, aviary, zoo or breeding centre.
- No ring or transmitter in view, no hand, no mounted specimen, no dead bird.
- A photograph, not a print, drawing or screenshot; without a watermark, caption or logo in the image.
- Sharp, at least 1600 pixels on the long side and no taller than three times the width. JPEG or PNG, up to 20 MB.
- Your own: you are the photographer and you release it under one of the five licences below.
Where the guide still lacks a photograph
For these species no photograph of a living wild bird with a suitable Creative Commons licence exists:
- Slender-Billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris
- Monteiro's Storm Petrel Hydrobates monteiroi
- Barolo Shearwater Puffinus baroli
- Desert Owl Strix hadorami
- Arabian Lark Eremalauda eremodites
The form
This guide is not accepting new submissions right now. Please check back later.
What happens with the data: the photograph is reduced to 2048 pixels and stored without the location data a camera adds. Name, place and date go with the photograph; the e-mail address does not. A photograph that is not taken up is deleted.