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 and county scarcities. If your bird is not on this list or the Stop Press list, then it should probably be posted on the Britain and Europe Common Birds Gallery.
The following species are welcome on the Scarce Gallery:
| Bewick’s Swan - if a scarce county bird |
| Whooper Swan - if a scarce county bird |
| Bean Goose - if a scarce county bird |
| Pink-footed Goose - if a scarce county bird |
| Barnacle Goose - if a scarce county bird |
| Garganey - if a scarce county bird |
| Red-crested Pochard |
| Long-tailed Duck - if a scarce county bird |
| Common Scoter - if a scarce county bird |
| Velvet Scoter - if a scarce county bird |
| Smew - if a scarce county bird |
| Black Grouse |
| Quail |
| Golden Pheasant |
| Lady Amherst’s Pheasant |
| Red-throated Diver - if a scarce county bird |
| Black-throated Diver - if a scarce county bird |
| Great Northern Diver - if a scarce county bird |
| Red-necked Grebe |
| Slavonian Grebe - if a scarce county bird |
| Black-necked Grebe - if a scarce county bird |
| Sooty Shearwater - if a scarce county bird |
| Manx Shearwater - if a scarce county bird |
| Leach’s Petrel |
| Gannet - if a scarce county bird |
| Shag - if a scarce county bird |
| Bittern |
| Little Egret |
| Spoonbill |
| Honey-buzzard |
| Rough-legged Buzzard |
| Red Kite |
| Marsh Harrier - if a scarce county bird |
| Montagu’s Harrier |
| Goshawk |
| Golden Eagle |
| Osprey |
| Spotted Crake |
| Corncrake |
| Crane |
| Stone-curlew |
| Dotterel |
| Knot - if a scarce county bird |
| Little Stint - if a scarce county bird |
| Temminck’s Stint |
| Pectoral Sandpiper |
| Curlew Sandpiper |
| Jack Snipe |
| Spotted Redshank - if a scarce county bird |
| Wood Sandpiper |
| Grey Phalarope |
| Pomarine Skua |
| Arctic Skua - if a scarce county bird |
| Great Skua - if a scarce county bird |
| Kittiwake - if a scarce county bird |
| Little Gull |
| Mediterranean Gull |
| Yellow-legged Gull |
| Iceland Gull |
| Glaucous Gull |
| Black Tern - if a scarce county bird |
| Roseate Tern |
| Guillemot - if a scarce county bird |
| Razorbill - if a scarce county bird |
| Black Guillemot - if a scarce county bird |
| Little Auk |
| Puffin - if a scarce county bird |
| Long-eared Owl |
| Nightjar - if a scarce county bird |
| Wryneck |
| Great Spotted Woodpecker - if a scarce county bird |
| Woodlark |
| Shore Lark |
| Water Pipit |
| Waxwing |
| Ring Ouzel |
| Firecrest |
| Red-backed Shrike |
| Great Grey Shrike |
| Tree Sparrow - if a scarce county bird |
| Mealy Redpoll |
| Common Crossbill - if a scarce county bird |
| Hawfinch |
| Lapland Bunting |
| Cirl Bunting |
Thank You for following these guidelines and we look forward to seeing your photos!