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12 June 2008: this site contains 3,262 photos of 950 bird species in the wild; 517 of these are on the Australian list (Christidis & Boles, 2008).	Search WWW Search birdway.com.au
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12 June 2008. See gallery updates below. 8 July 2008. Ian is back home from Alaska. Visit the Bird of the Week page for the current and previous 2 weeks. 10 March 2008. Non-Australian Galleries are progressive being updated to conform with the Birdlife International check list. 8 February 2008. Following the publication of the latest work on the taxonomy of Australian Birds, Christidis & Boles (2008), Australian Galleries are progressively being updated to match their classification (this will take a long time!). This sometimes means that the sequence may vary between the Non-Australian and Australian gallery thumbnails (e.g. Global and Australian Herons) and some species may be assigned to two genera, with the Birdlife International one being listed first and the Christidis & Boles one second (e.g. Cattle Egret Bubulcus/Ardea ibis). 21 November 2007. A photo of a distant Cinnamon Quail-thrush is the 500th Australian species in the site. 2 November 2007. Ian has introduced a new gallery design which has thumbnails and images on the same page for easier viewing separate headings for description, location and image size photographic data such as shutter speed Check out the Royal Spoonbill Gallery to see what you think. 2 August 2007. Ian now encourages free use of images on personal and conservation-related websites in exchange for links. 18 July 2007. For greater flexibility, Ian has started moving galleries down to the species level, e.g. the new Tern Gallery. The species in the gallery index are now in taxonomic, rather than alphabetic, sequence and black backgrounds are being used to highlight the difference. Browsing the Galleries Photographs are organized by geographical regions - where the species occur rather than where the photos were taken.The main emphasis is on birds which occur in Australia but there are also sections on Asian, European and North and South American Birds. You can browse the list of galleries in each section. The photos in this site are from high-resolution originals suitable for printing. At this site you can: Join the email list to receive the popular, free Bird of the Week photo Order quality A5, A4 and A3 prints of photos (see section on image purchases) Contact Ian about fees for publication or commercial use of photos (see section on image purchases) Download photos from the galleries (see section on image purchases for conditions for free use of photos)   Gallery and Section Updates: Revised American and Eurasian Woodpecker Galleries with 53 photos of 22 species: 12 June 2008 Revised Global Pelican Gallery with 19 photos of 4 species: 31 May 2008 New Global Avocet & Stilt Galleries (removed from Plovers & Allies) accessible from Asian, Australian, European and American Birds with 33 photos of 6 species: 27 May 2008 New Dipper Gallery with 6 photos of 2 species: 25 May 2008 New Forster's Tern Gallery with 7 photos: 22 May 2008 Australian Hawks & Allies are being revised. There are new galleries for: Whistling Kite: 30 April 2008 Black-shouldered Kite: 28 April 2008 White-bellied Sea-Eagle: 26 April 2008 Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus now split from P. haliaetus): 26 April 2008 Pacific Baza: 26 April 2008 Christmas Island Goshawk (now treated as a subspecies of the Variable Goshawk, Accipiter hiogaster, instead of the Brown Goshawk, A. fasciatus): 26 April 2008 New Yellow-breasted Broadbill Gallery with 3 photos: 22 April 2008 Revised Global Thickknee/Stone-Curlew Galleries accessible from Asian, European and South American Birds and, as a subset, from Australian Birds with 29 photos of 4 species: 17 April 2008 Revised Global Wader (Scolopacidae) Galleries accessible from Asian, European and South American Birds and, as a subset, from Australian Birds with 134 photos of 37 species: 10 April 2008	Join the free Bird of the Week list and brighten up you week with a beautiful and informative email.   Some Recent Additions Click on a thumbnail below to view the photo in its gallery Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) Nuttall's Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus) White-headed Woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus) Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchus) American Avocet (Recurvirostra americanus) American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri) Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus) Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) White-bellied Sea-Eagle (Haliaaetus leucogaster) Christmas Island Goshawk (Accipiter hiogaster natalis) Pacific Baza (Aviceda cristata) Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus) Yellow-breasted Boatbill (Machaerirhynchus flaviventer) Beach Stone-Curlew (Esacus magnirostris) Curlew Sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) Grey-tailed Tattler (Heteroscelus brevipes) Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) Red Knot (Calidris canutus) Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae) Oriental Darter (Anhinga melanogaster) Rufous Owl (Ninox rufa) Brown Hawk-Owl (Ninox scutulata) Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans) Eastern Rosella (Platycercus eximus) Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus) Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) Intermediate Egret (Ardea intermedia) Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta) Great Egret (Ardea alba) White-necked (Pacific) Heron (Ardea pacifica) Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) Striated Heron (Butoroides striata) Rufous (Nankeen) Night-Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus )