Share Your Bird Photos for Colorado Birds! — Winter 2025–2026 (December 1 – February 28)
George Mayfield
Hello CO Birders, Another quarter, another chance to share your best work! Colorado Birds, the quarterly journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists, is now accepting photo submissions for our "News From The Field" feature. We're on the lookout for compelling images of rare, vagrant, or otherwise unusual birds documented in Colorado between December 1, 2025, and February 28, 2026 (see submission guidelines below).
To be considered in the upcoming issue, please send your highest-quality photos to geo...@cobirds.org no later than Thursday, May 28, 2026 — and be sure to follow the file-naming guidelines below when you do.
We'd particularly love to feature photos of these noteworthy species observed during this period:
Winter 2025–2026 (December 1 – February 28)
- Brant
- Mexican Duck
- Surf Scoter
- White-winged Scoter
- Long-tailed Duck
- Barrow's Goldeneye
- Greater Roadrunner
- Dunlin
- Black-legged Kittiwake
- Franklin's Gull
- Iceland Gull (kumlieni)
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Red-necked Grebe
- Pacific Loon
- Red-throated Loon
- Yellow-billed Loon
- White-faced Ibis
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Short-eared Owl
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Northern House Wren
- Pacific Wren
- Carolina Wren
- Crissal Thrasher
- Brambling
- Cassia Crossbill
- White-winged Crossbill
- Snow Bunting
- Chipping Sparrow
- Field Sparrow
- Fox Sparrow
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Bullock's Oriole
- Rusty Blackbird
- Ovenbird
- Northern Waterthrush
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Common Yellowthroat
- Cape May Warbler
- Northern Parula
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Northern Yellow Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Pine Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Scarlet Tanager
- Western Tanager
- Northern Cardinal
Thanks for your contributions to Colorado Birds. Your dedication and generosity help maintain our journal's excellence, making it one of the country's finest. Thanks for sharing your photography with us!
George Mayfield
Photo Editor, Colorado Birds
Wheat Ridge, CO
Photo Submission Guidelines:
Photos from Winter 2025–2026 (December 1 – February 28)
Photos must be your own, and by submitting them, you give Colorado Birds permission to reproduce in any issue and on the CFO website. We always credit images with the photographer's name.
Please use the following format for the photo file names: species-date-location-county-photographer. For example, a photo of an American Robin taken Oct. 4, 2024 at Chatfield State Park by John James Audubon would be named as follows:
American Robin (or AMRO)-20241004-Chatfield-Adams-JJAudubon.
Minimum quality for interior publication use is 750 x 900 pixels. To be considered for the journal cover, photos must be at least 2625 pixels (vertically) x 1725 pixels (horizontally). Please send original files in the largest resolution possible (300 dpi is preferable). We will crop and resize as needed. Email your submissions to geo...@cobirds.org