Share Your Bird Photos for Colorado Birds! — Sightings March 1 – May 31, 2026

[George Mayfield]

Dear 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 March 1, 2026, and May 31, 2026 (see submission guidelines below).

To be considered for the upcoming issue, please send your highest-quality photos to geo...@cobirds.org no later than Saturday, August 8, 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:

Spring 2026 sightings (March 1 – May 31, 2026)

• Eurasian Wigeon
• Mexican Duck
• Long-tailed Duck
• Harlequin Duck
• Red-necked Grebe
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Greater Roadrunner
• Lesser Nighthawk
• Black Swift
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Common Gallinule
• Black-bellied Plover
• American Golden-Plover
• Snowy Plover
• Piping Plover
• Hudsonian Whimbrel
• Hudsonian Godwit
• Short-billed Dowitcher
• American Woodcock
• Red Phalarope
• White-rumped Sandpiper
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Short-billed Gull
• Great Black-backed Gull
• Laughing Gull
• Western Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Least Tern
• Pacific Loon
• Yellow-billed Loon
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Glossy Ibis
• White Ibis
• Tricolored Heron
• Green Heron
• Yellow-crowned Night Heron
• Zone-tailed Hawk
• Common Black Hawk
• Acorn Woodpecker
• Black Phoebe
• Eastern Wood-Pewee
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Thick-billed Kingbird
• White-eyed Vireo
• Yellow-throated Vireo
• Philadelphia Vireo
• Gray Vireo
• Bewick's Wren
• Pacific Wren
• Cactus Wren
• Crissal Thrasher
• Curve-billed Thrasher
• Eastern Bluebird
• Varied Thrush
• Gray-cheeked Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• Veery
• Purple Finch
• Golden-crowned Sparrow
• Rufous-crowned Sparrow
• Hooded Oriole
• Worm-eating Warbler
• Louisiana Waterthrush
• Golden-winged Warbler
• Blue-winged Warbler
• Prothonotary Warbler
• Tennessee Warbler
• Lucy's Warbler
• Mourning Warbler
• Hooded Warbler
• Kentucky Warbler
• American Redstart
• Northern Parula
• Magnolia Warbler
• Bay-breasted Warbler
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Chestnut-sided Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Black-throated Blue Warbler
• Prairie Warbler
• Yellow-throated Warbler
• Hermit Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Summer Tanager
• Scarlet Tanager
• Northern Cardinal
• Painted Bunting

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
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Photo Submission Guidelines:

Photos from March 1, 2026 – May 31, 2026

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