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Inspiring and Supporting Photographers of Australian Birds

  • Curlew Sandpiper (Image ID 39042)

    Curlew Sandpiper.   Photographer: Bruce McNaughton

  • Magpie Goose, Plumed Whistling-Duck (Image ID 46731)

    Magpie Goose, Plumed Whistling-Duck.   Photographer: Geoffrey Stapley

  • Brown Quail (Image ID 33940)

    Brown Quail.   Photographer: Bill Harding

  • Curlew Sandpiper (Image ID 60406)

    Curlew Sandpiper.   Photographer: Cherilyn Corker

  • Brolga (Image ID 45468)

    Brolga.   Photographer: Rob Parker

This site contains many thousands of images of Australian birds submitted by our members, in galleries of various types.  Most images are submitted to the New Images gallery, and subsequently transferred to the Main Library.  Images must show clearly identificable birds, and be of acceptable quality (reasonably sharp, well exposed); generally, the bird(s) should occupy a significant portion of the image, and should not be appreciably obscured.  The species that we will accept are those on the BirdLife Working List of Australian birds, excluding those species whose Population is shown as 'Domestic'.  We will accept pictures of hybrid birds - see the note in the Species selection area of the Submit Photo page.  We will not accept images of unknown birds which are possible aviary escapees, or domestic birds, as we are unable to clearly identify these; they are not on the list of accepted species.  We will accept images of birds which occur in Australia but were taken overseas, with the proviso that, if there are subspecies, the image is of the subspecies which occurs in Australia.

For several years, images submitted to our competitions have not been allowed to have watermarks or borders/frames, in order to ensure anonimity until the competition voting is completed.  We have decided that we will extend this rule to images submitted to all galleries, to provide consistency of images across the site and to ensure that all images will be considered when people/organisations are requesting images for download - most of these requests are for conservation/education purposes and "plain" images are appropriate for this.  From Friday 26th June 2020, we will not accept images with watermarks and/or borders/frames in any of our galleries - with one exception: images submitted with the "creative" keyword selected may have a border/frame for creative effect.

All images submitted are assessed by a moderator before they are published (made visible on the website), and unacceptable images are immediately rejected; the moderator will include the reason for the rejection in an email to the photographer.  All other images are given a rating for both pose/composition/visual impact and technical; those which receive a "poor" rating will be automatically removed from the site after (about) one month.  A document giving details of the image rating criteria used by our moderators is available here.

Images may be submitted to a special Slides gallery; these are used in the slideshow on the home page and some other pages of the site.  The gallery description (which appears when you select that gallery to submit the image to) contains details of the stricter requirements for those images.

Images may also be submitted to our Current Competition galleries, when a competition is open for entries.  Entries to previous competitions are retained for viewing in Previous Competition galleries; images which were rated as "poor" by the competition moderator(s) may be removed after the competition ends..

There are two special galleries, which contain selected images from all submissions; these are the Premier Bird Images gallery and the Bird Identification gallery.  There are also two galleries for images that are not regular bird photos - the Landscape/Habitat/KBAs gallery,  and the Science & Conservation gallery.  The side-menu items here will provide more detail on these galleries.

Finally, the images used in previous Bird Identification Challenges are available in a set of Previous ID Challenge galleries.

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The Our People page, in the About Us section, contains email links to each of the committee members.