Share Your Bird Photos for Colorado Birds! - Summer 2025 (June 1 - July 31)
George Mayfield
Subject: Share Your Bird Photos for Colorado Birds! - Summer 2025 (June 1 - July 31)
Dear Colorado Bird Photographers,
It’s that time again! We’re thrilled to invite you to submit your top-notch bird photographs for the upcoming issue of Colorado Birds, the quarterly journal of the Colorado Field Ornithologists. For our “News From The Field” feature, we’re looking for striking images of rare, vagrant, or otherwise unusual birds spotted in Colorado between June 1, 2025, and July 31, 2025 (submission guidelines below).
If you’d like to be featured, please send your best high-quality photos to me at geo...@cobirds.org by Sunday, November 16, 2025. Don’t forget to follow the file-naming guidelines included below when submitting.
We’re especially eager to showcase photos of these noteworthy species observed during this period:
Summer 2025 (June 1 - July 31)
- Ross's Goose
- Greater White-fronted Goose
- Cackling Goose
- Trumpeter Swan
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Rivoli’s Hummingbird
- Hudsonian Whimbrel
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Red Knot
- Laughing Gull
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Least Tern
- Caspian Tern
- Common Tern
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-throated Loon
- Common Loon
- Cocos Booby
- Anhinga
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Reddish Egret
- Green Heron
- Black Vulture
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Tropical Kingbird
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- White-eyed Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Pacific Wren
- Winter Wren
- Cactus Wren
- Cassia Crossbill
- White-winged Crossbill
- Black-chinned Sparrow
- Chihuahuan Meadowlark
- Hooded Oriole
- Baltimore Oriole
- Black-and-white Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Hooded Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler
- Hermit Warbler
- Summer Tanager
- Yellow Grosbeak
- Indigo 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 Summer 2025 (June 1-July 31)
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