Seeking photos for new COG book Birds of Canberra Gardens

[Julian Robinson <>]

Paul Fennell is producing the new version of the COG book, Birds of
Canberra Gardens.  I'm assisting him to gather the photos required,
taking over from David Cook who is about to head off to South America for
some exotic birding.

This is a call for any members who have good photos of any of the birds
listed below to submit their photos for consideration.  The
selection of photo(s) for each bird will be based on how well it shows
the bird, the background/context, aesthetic qualities of the image,
sufficient technical quality, and how well it suits the context in which
it will be placed in the book.

There are some constraints and requirements to make this
manageable...  

- images already on the COG Photo Gallery do NOT need to be
submitted.
- please only submit photos that are objectively good enough to go in a
book!  (If in doubt, feel free to submit it though).
- for dimorphic species it doesn't matter which sex your photo is of, the
book might use either or both.  Probably the most distinctive sex
(male) will be used, but not necessarily.
- your original image needs to be at least 900 pixels wide, and not
blurry. More pixels is better.  
- you don't have to crop it as I can do that and/or tweak it up a bit if
necessary.
- please rename your images as follows ...

bird's common name (as in the list below with no hyphens or spaces) HYPHEN your name with no hyphens or spaces

eg   John Smith's image of a White Cockatoo would be...

sulphurcrestedcockatoo-johnsmith.jpg

Please don't be miffed if your photo does not get used, the
selection will be done objectively but not with any particular regard to
who took them or a need to include one from everyone.  It won't
necessarily be the 'best' photos that get used since as stated above,
practical things like the book layout, photo size and aspect ratio as
well as what the photo shows will be prime determinants.   The
reality is that most photos will end up being from the more enthusiastic
(obsessed?) COG "press corps", but many people who lead normal
lives and maintain a healthy perspective will also have good
photos.  

If you have a reasonable shot of a Koel please submit it!



WHAT TO DO

1. Look through the list of birds below and, if you have any photos
that might suit, find your image.  

2. Resize to be 500-800 pixels wide.

3. Rename as requested above and save as a jpg file.

4 Email your image(s) as attachments to 
. 

Cheers
Julian




LIST OF BIRDS FOR WHICH PHOTOS WILL BE NEEDED
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo 
Crimson Rosella 
Budgerigar 
Rock Dove 
Australian Hobby 
Eastern Koel 
Fan-tailed Cuckoo 
Southern Boobook 
White-throated Needletail 
Fork-tailed Swift 
Azure Kingfisher 
Laughing Kookaburra 
Sacred Kingfisher 
Dollarbird 
Rainbow Bee-eater 
White-throated Treecreeper 
Superb Fairy-wren 
Brown Gerygone 
Speckled Warbler 
Weebill 
White-throated Gerygone 
Yellow-rumped Thornbill 
Yellow Thornbill 
Brown Thornbill 
Buff-rumped Thornbill 
Eastern Spinebill 
Yellow-faced Honeyeater 
Fuscous Honeyeater 
Regent Honeyeater 
Crescent Honeyeater 
Red Wattlebird 
Brown-headed Honeyeater 
White-naped Honeyeater 
Varied Sittella 
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike 
Crested Shrike-tit 
Golden Whistler 
Rufous Whistler 
Grey Shrike-thrush 
Grey Butcherbird 
Dusky Woodswallow 
Australian Magpie 
Grey Currawong 
Rufous Fantail 
Grey Fantail 
Leaden Flycatcher 
Restless Flycatcher 
Satin Flycatcher 
Magpie-lark 
Red-capped Robin 
Jacky Winter 
Scarlet Robin 
Flame Robin 
Welcome Swallow 
Fairy Martin 
Tree Martin 
Common Starling 
Common Myna 
Zebra Finch 
Double-barred Finch 
Diamond Firetail 
House Sparrow 
European Goldfinch 
Australian Shelduck 
Little Black Cormorant 
Great Cormorant 
Royal Spoonbill 
White-necked Heron 
White-faced Heron 
Australian White Ibis 
Straw-necked Ibis 
Purple Swamphen 
Eurasian Coot 
Dusky Moorhen 
Masked Lapwing 
Black-fronted Dotterel 
Australasian Pipit 
Rufous Songlark 




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