All the birders who view the galleries daily thank you for posting your photos but please take a moment to review these guidelines.
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1. If there are already good photos posted of a particular bird, please limit yourself to posting your best 2-3 shots. If posting more than 2 photos, please use your judgement to decide if your photos add anything new. Photographers are encouraged to only post two or three of their best shots and then add a link to see more photos at their own website. Surfbirds offers free webspace for photographers. Sign up to get your own Photo Blog or your own Photo Album We urge users to take advantage of these free resources.
2. We welcome submissions of national vagrants, very rare county rarities and rare and noteworthy migrants. Site rarities or more regularly occuring scarce birds should be posted on the Britain and Ireland Scarce Birds Gallery (eg inland Grey Phalaropes, Wrynecks, Waxwings, Great Grey Shrikes etc). Click here to see a list of acceptable species for the Scarce Birds Gallery.
In addition to all BBRC birds, the following rare and sometimes hard to photograph species are welcome on the Stop Press Gallery:
Snow Goose |
Black Brant |
Ruddy Shelduck |
American Wigeon |
Green-winged Teal |
Ferruginous Duck |
Ring-necked Duck |
Surf Scoter |
Cory’s Shearwater |
Great Shearwater |
Balearic Shearwater |
Wilson’s Petrel |
Night-heron |
Great White Egret |
Purple Heron |
White Stork |
Black Kite |
White-tailed Eagle |
Rough-legged Buzzard |
Red-footed Falcon |
Kentish Plover |
American Golden Plover |
White-rumped Sandpiper |
Broad-billed Sandpiper |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
Red-necked Phalarope |
Long-tailed Skua |
Sabine’s Gull |
Ring-billed Gull |
Caspian Gull |
American Herring Gull |
Caspian Tern |
White-winged Black Tern |
Alpine Swift |
Bee-eater |
Hoopoe |
Short-toed Lark |
Red-rumped Swallow |
Richard’s Pipit |
Tawny Pipit |
Olive-backed Pipit |
Red-throated Pipit |
Citrine Wagtail |
Thrush Nightingale |
Bluethroat |
Savi’s Warbler |
Marsh Warbler - migrants only |
Aquatic Warbler |
Icterine Warbler |
Melodious Warbler |
Barred Warbler |
Greenish Warbler |
Yellow-browed Warbler |
Pallas’s Warbler |
Radde’s Warbler |
Dusky Warbler |
Red-breasted Flycatcher |
Golden Oriole - migrants only |
Woodchat Shrike |
Rose-coloured Starling |
Serin |
Arctic Redpoll |
Common Rosefinch |
Ortolan Bunting |
Rustic Bunting |
Little Bunting |
Thank You for following these guidelines and we look forward to seeing your photos!