Share Your Bird Photos for Colorado Birds! - Fall 2025 (August 1 - November 30)
George Mayfield
Dear Colorado Bird Photographers,
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 August 1, 2025, and November 30, 2025 (see submission guidelines below).
To be considered for the upcoming issue, please send your highest-quality photos to geo...@cobirds.org no later than Sunday, March 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:
Fall 2025 (August 1 - November 30)
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Mexican Duck
Mottled Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Common Gallinule
Snowy Plover
Hudsonian Whimbrel
Short-billed Dowitcher
Red Phalarope
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Dunlin
White-rumped Sandpiper
Long-tailed Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Pomarine Jaeger
Little Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Sabine’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Short-billed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Arctic Tern
Red-necked Grebe
Red-throated Loon
Wood Stork
Anhinga
Neotropic Cormorant
Glossy Ibis
American Bittern
Least Bittern
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Tricolored Heron
Black Vulture
Swallow-tailed Kite
Acorn Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Blue-headed Vireo
Philadelphia Vireo
Pacific Wren
Sedge Wren
Carolina Wren
Crissal Thrasher
Wood Thrush
Sprague’s Pipit
Brambling
Cassia Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
Golden-crowned Sparrow
LeConte’s Sparrow
Eastern Towhee
Blue-winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Canada Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Yellow Grosbeak
Painted Bunting
Dickcissel
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 Fall 2025 (August 1 - November 30)
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