Share Your Bird Photos for Colorado Birds! - Spring 2025 (March 1 - May 31)
George Mayfield
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 March 1, 2025, and May 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 Thursday, July 31, 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:
Spring 2025 (March 1 - May 31)
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Mexican Duck
- Long-tailed Duck
- Red-necked Grebe
- Lesser Nighthawk
- Black Swift
- Vaux’s Swift
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Black-bellied Plover
- American Golden-Plover
- Snowy Plover
- Piping Plover
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Short-billed Gull
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Laughing Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Least Tern
- Arctic Tern
- Red-throated Loon
- Pacific Loon
- Yellow-billed Loon
- Neotropic Cormorant
- Glossy Ibis
- Reddish Egret
- Common Black Hawk
- Red-headed Woodpecker
- Crested Caracara
- Vermilion Flycatcher
- Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
- White-eyed Vireo
- Yellow-throated Vireo
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pacific Wren
- Winter Wren
- Crissal Thrasher
- Eastern Bluebird
- Varied Thrush
- Gray-cheeked Thrush
- Wood Thrush
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Lawrence’s Goldfinch
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Worm-eating Warbler
- Louisiana Waterthrush
- Golden-winged Warbler
- Blue-winged Warbler
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Tennessee Warbler
- Lucy’s Warbler
- Mourning Warbler
- Hooded Warbler
- Cape May Warbler
- Magnolia Warbler
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Blackburnian Warbler
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Palm Warbler
- Prairie Warbler
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Summer Tanager
- Scarlet Tanager
- Northern Cardinal
- Yellow Grosbeak
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- 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
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Photo Submission Guidelines:
Photos from Spring 2025 (March 1-May 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
George Mayfield
Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County