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.
- Landscape or square, sharp, and at least 1600 pixels on the long side. 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:
- Red-legged Tinamou Crypturellus erythropus
- Choco Tinamou Crypturellus kerriae
- Rusty Tinamou Crypturellus brevirostris
- Bartlett's Tinamou Crypturellus bartletti
- Horned Curassow Pauxi unicornis
- Gorgeted Wood Quail Odontophorus strophium
- Colombian Grebe Podiceps andinus
- Colombian Crake Mustelirallus colombianus
- Red-winged Wood Rail Aramides calopterus
- Tschudi's Nightjar Quechuavis decussata
- Todd's Nightjar Setopagis heterura
- Rothschild's Swift Cypseloides rothschildi
- Ashy-tailed Swift Chaetura andrei
- Pygmy Palm Swift Tachornis furcata
- Turquoise-throated Puffleg Eriocnemis godini
- Colorful Puffleg Eriocnemis mirabilis
- Rufous-webbed Brilliant Heliodoxa branickii
- Chiribiquete Emerald Chlorostilbon olivaresi
- Narrow-tailed Emerald Chlorostilbon stenurus
- Semicollared Hawk Microspizias collaris
- Yellow-browed Toucanet Aulacorhynchus huallagae
- Splendid Woodpecker Campephilus splendens
- Buckley's Forest Falcon Micrastur buckleyi
- Plumbeous Forest Falcon Micrastur plumbeus
- Spot-winged Parrotlet Touit stictopterus
- Black-winged Parrot Hapalopsittaca melanotis
- Hazel-fronted Pygmy Tyrant Pseudotriccus simplex
- Tawny-rumped Tyrannulet Tyranniscus uropygialis
- White-masked Antbird Pithys castaneus
- Grey-headed Antbird Ampelornis griseiceps
- Yellow-rumped Antwren Euchrepomis sharpei
- Ancient Antwren Herpsilochmus gentryi
- Yellow-throated Antwren Myrmotherula ambigua
- Rio Suno Antwren Myrmotherula sunensis
- Elusive Antpitta Grallaria eludens
- White-winged Tapaculo Scytalopus krabbei
- Paramillo Tapaculo Scytalopus canus
- Bolivian Tapaculo Scytalopus bolivianus
- Unicolored Tapaculo Scytalopus unicolor
- Tacarcuna Tapaculo Scytalopus panamensis
- Rufous-fronted Antthrush Formicarius rufifrons
- Bay Hornero Furnarius torridus
- Slaty-winged Foliage-Gleaner Neophilydor fuscipenne
- Bolivian Recurvebill Syndactyla striata
- Chattering Gnatwren Ramphocaenus sticturus
- Iquitos Gnatcatcher Polioptila clementsi
- Unicolored Thrush Turdus haplochrous
- Tacarcuna Chlorospingus Chlorospingus tacarcunae
- Bronze-brown Cowbird Molothrus armenti
- Sharp-beaked Ground Finch Geospiza difficilis
- Sira Tanager Stilpnia phillipsi
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.