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Australian Pelican. Photographer: Anna Browne
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Bar-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover. Photographer: David Newell
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Australian Pied Oystercatcher. Photographer: Mal Carnegie
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Pallid Cuckoo. Photographer: Sandy Castle
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Australian Pelican. Photographer: Rob Parker
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Latest Images
Brown-headed Honeyeater
Tim Van Leeuwen
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Red-eared Firetail
Tim Van Leeuwen
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Ruddy Turnstone
Tim Van Leeuwen
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Pied Monarch
Barry Deacon
Viewed: 15
Splendid Fairy-wren
Keith James
Viewed: 8
Torresian Imperial-Pigeon
Diana Womersley
Viewed: 6
Double-barred Finch
Diana Womersley
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Jacky Winter
Diana Womersley
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Palm Cockatoo
Paul Jensen
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Palm Cockatoo
Paul Jensen
Viewed: 10
Palm Cockatoo
Paul Jensen
Viewed: 7
Palm Cockatoo
Paul Jensen
Viewed: 6
Superb Fairy-wren
Rodger Scott
Viewed: 8
White-faced Heron
Rodger Scott
Viewed: 5
Sacred Kingfisher
Rodger Scott
Viewed: 5
Caspian Tern
Glenn Pure
Viewed: 9
Black Swan
Glenn Pure
Viewed: 8
Black Swan
Glenn Pure
Viewed: 16
Emu
Ian Wilson
Viewed: 16
Common Sandpiper
Keith James
Viewed: 13
Brown Cuckoo-Dove
Brian O'Leary
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The Pairs competition has closed for entries, and is now open for voting by members. Voting will close on Wednesday, 4th December 2019. As usual, you may vote for one or more of the competition levels; you do not need to have submitted an image to the competition to vote.
If you need help on how to vote, see the Photo Galleries-Competitions-Competition Voting page.
Please remember that this is not a popularity vote for your favourite bird, the rarest species or the most colourful bird. Your scoring (5 points for the best image, down to 1 point for your fifth choice) should reflect the following:
- Does the image meet the theme criteria?
- Does the image meet the key criteria for a quality image? (see 'Competition Voting' for more details).
- Do the comments provided by the photographer improve your understanding of why this image was taken, and submitted to this competition?
In addition to the membership vote, each competition level is reviewed by an experienced/professional judge - our "Mystery Reviewer" - and those scores are added to the members' voting results for the end-of-year medal awards.
We continue to trial a larger image size in the Advanced level of this competition; entries for that level were required to be either 1800 pixels wide or 1800 pixels high. This has some implications for viewing the images. Our website uses what is known as "responsive design", and will scale images which are wider than your browser window to fit on-screen. This means that if your browser window is not wider than about 1850 pixels (allowing for page margins and scroll-bar), you will not see a full-size image which is 1800 pixels wide; it will be scaled to fit your page width. The screen/browser resolution data that we have available indicates that about 2/3 of our members are using screens with HD (1920 x 1080) or higher resolution, and will be able to see 1800 pixel wide images with no scaling.
If your browser window is wide enough to display the image at full size, there will be no scaling; this means that an image which is 1800 pixels high will need a browser window about 1950 pixels high to see the whole image which is 1800 pixels high (allowing for browser title/menu/address bars and task bar at bottom of screen). Very few of our members have screens with such high resolution; to see the whole of an 1800-high image they will need to reduce their browser window width - yes, it sounds counter-intuitive - to cause the image to be scaled until its height is reduced sufficiently to display in the browser window. For example, there is an image in the Advanced competition which is 1350 wide x 1800 high; on my desktop monitor (1680 x 1050 resolution), with a maximized browser window, I can see the image at full size, but I only see about half of the image height; I need to reduce my browser window width to about 750 pixels to see the complete image, which at that point has been scaled to about 50% of its full size. I would do this if I was assessing images for voting, so that I could see the overall composition; I would also view it full size to see image detail. Changing the browser window width will allow people with screens which cannot display an 1800 x 1800 image at full size to get the "best of both worlds" with the large image format.
BirdLife Photography is delighted to announce the winner of the 2017 Tom Oliver Award ...
Con Boekel
Our 2017 TOA winner, Georgina Steytler, presented the 2019 Award Certificate to Con during our Biennial Conference in Fremantle.
Tom Oliver Award Winners, Georgina Steytler (2017) and Con Boekel (2019)
Con's winning entry, a photo essay titled "Bird Photography for What?", is available here.
Member voting for the Introduced Species competition, which closed for entries on 12th August and for voting on 8th September, has been analysed and the results for the top five images in each category are listed here. The Winner is the image which received the most votes; and we also show the next four highest placed images, rating them as Highly Commended if they received at least 90% of the votes for the winning image, and Commended for scores less than that.
Advanced Level – Introduced Species
This category attracted 38 entries, from 14 photographers. 27 members voted, with the following result:
- Winner - House Sparrow, by Bill Harding (Image ID 35781)
- Commended - Common Starling, by Stephen Garth (Image ID 35990)
- Commended - Helmeted Guineafowl, by Tim Van Leeuwen (Image ID 36016)
- Commended - Common Myna, by Terence Alexander (Image ID 36269)
- Commended - Spotted Dove, by Sandy Castle (Image ID 36151)
Intermediate Level – Introduced Species
This category attracted 39 entries, from 17 photographers. 29 members voted, with the following result:
- Winner - Ostrich, by Gary King (Image ID 36037)
- Commended - Laughing Dove, by Cherilyn Corker (Image ID 35936)
- Commended - House Sparrow, by John Eley (Image ID 36026)
- Commended - Eurasian Tree Sparrow, by Con Duyvestyn (Image ID 36227)
- Commended - Common Starling, by Michiko Iida (Image ID 36260)
Entry Level – Introduced Species
This category attracted 18 entries, from 6 photographers. 31 members voted, with the following result:
- Winner - Spotted Dove, by Jennifer Carr (Image ID 35925)
- Commended - House Sparrow, by Graham Gall (Image ID 35931)
- Commended - Common Blackbird, by Jennifer Carr (Image ID 36200)
- Commended - Common Myna, by Mary Wheeler (Image ID 36103)
- Commended - Rock Dove, by Graham Gall (Image ID 35906)
Congratulations to all these photographers for their qulity images
We have been overwhelmed with the number and standard of entries in our national competition. At close of entries late on Sunday 4th August, we'd received more than 4,100 entries, eclipsing the 3,100 received in 2018 (the competition's first year).
Our panel of top international and Australian judges have a big task ahead of them. We're expecting to announce results in late October or early November.
We thank all entrants for supporting the competition, especially our own Birdlife Photography members.
Over the years, we've published a number of educational/tutorial articles in our bi-monthly Newsletter. These are now available in Resources - Our Articles. That page provides access to articles in four categories:
- Photography Techniques and Processes
- Image Processing
- Articles about Equipment
- In-depth Technical Articles
Articles in this section which are less than 24 months old are only accessible to our members, who must log-in to access them.
In the past week or so (early April), we've had several members contact us to report that they have been unable to upload images to our galleries; the upload would hang, sometimes reporting a timeout error, sometimes with no error message. It appears that a recent update to the Safari web browser - the default for Apple systems - is the cause of this behaviour. Our advice to Safari users who experience this problem is to change to an alternative web browser; we recommend either Chrome or Firefox.
Recent Picks
Black Swan
Glenn Pure
Viewed: 16
Mulga Parrot
Ian Wilson
Viewed: 23
Pale-headed Rosella
Diana Womersley
Viewed: 23
Blue-breasted Fairy-wren
Con Duyvestyn
Viewed: 55
White-fronted Chat
Gary King
Viewed: 44
Peregrine Falcon
David Newell
Viewed: 51
Bar-breasted Honeyeater
Chris Young
Viewed: 77
Eastern Bristlebird
Jill Wilson
Viewed: 95
White-winged Fairy-wren
Stephen Garth
Viewed: 71
Grey-tailed Tattler
Terence Alexander
Viewed: 61
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