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Welcome to Birdway!Ian Montgomery invites you to enjoy the beauty and fascination of the birds and other wildlife of Australia and the World. |
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| Australian Bird | New World Bird | Ian's Picks (changed weekly) | Old World Bird | Other Wildlife |
| 25 August 2010: this site contains more than 5,200 photos of 1,237 bird species in the wild - 597 of these are on the main Australian list of Christidis & Boles, 2008 - and 105 photos of 27 species of reptiles and Australian mammals. | 
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Bird of the Week#378: Anna's Hummingbird 1 September 2010
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Instant Links to Bird Families (Hold cursor over any image to list gallery contents)
Non-passerines
Passerines
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Recent Additions: (Most recent on left - use scroll bar for earlier ones; hold cursor over thumbnail to see date and changes)
News
22 August 2010: Ian is currently in the USA. He has his laptop and photo library with him so it's business as usual for digital images. Please contact him by email ian@birdway.com.au or by Skype (Skype name ian.montgomery3).
22 July 2010: Most of Ian's clients buy digital images for use in conservation- and/or education-related projects. He offers images for these projects at prices ranging from 30 to 60 Australian Dollars (plus 10% GST for Australian residents) depending on size. See the new Image Purchases page for details. Commercial prices are by negotiation. The new page also includes a Guide to Image Sizes that relates the digital images size (in pixels) to the required display or print size and density ('resolution').
4 July 2010: Ian has finished revising the layout of the family index pages. The changes, intended to make them easier to use, include:
- a neater layout with closer correspondence among similar pages
- previous and next family buttons in all the regional family pages instead of just in the global ones.
- colour coding for different regions to make it easier to know where you are
The background colours of regional family thumbnails are as follows:
2 July 2010: A new section on Fruit Bats/Flying-foxes with the 4 most widespread Australian species has been added to Other Wildlife.
17 May 2010: Ian is revising the layout of the photo galleries to make them easier to use. The differences include:
- scrollable thumbnails
- a more compact layout allowing the size of images to be increased to 600 pixels wide, without exceeding the standard screen size
- the description has been moved from the information panel to just below the photo.
See the Brolga Gallery for an example. The new design will be applied progressively, but this will take time.
11 May 2010: This home page has been reorganized to make it easier to find families, species and photos.
Three Clicks!
The section Instant Links to Bird Families contains both a thumbnail link to each Family in taxonomic sequence (Birdlife International) and a list of all the species in each family, which you can view by pausing the cursor over the thumbnail image. Click on the family thumbnail to take you to the species thumbnails for that family. Click on a species thumbnail to view the first photo for that species and thumbnails for the remaining photos. This means that in 3 clicks you can find and view any of the more than 5,000 photos in the site.
Recent Additions
The section Recent Additions is now neatly presented as scrollable row of thumbnails with the latest additions in view and older ones to the right.
4 May 2010: There are now more than 5,000 photos in this website.
28 January 2010: Membership of the Bird of the Week Google Group now exceeds 600 members from all over the world.
11 December 2009: If you use images from Birdway in your website (see conditions for free use), please copy the images to your own site and do not link directly as Ian may move or delete images.
17 May 2009: Musk Lorikeet is the 1,200th species to be included in the website.
23 March 2009: Ian now encourages free use of images on personal and conservation-related websites in exchange for links.
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High-resolution Originals
The photos in this site are from high-resolution originals suitable for printing (unless qualified with the comment 'for the record' or 'poor image quality') with a minimum length of 1,200 pixels along the longest side.
Contact Ian about fees for publication or commercial use of photos (see section on image purchases).
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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 alphabetic indices and family thumbnails, where appropriate, to birds of the Whole World, Old World (Eurasia and Africa) and the New World (the Americas). You can browse the list of galleries in each section.
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In this site you can:
- Join the Google email list to receive the popular, free Bird of the Week
photo item
- Contact Ian about fees for publication or commercial use of photos (see section on image purchases)
- Order quality A5, A4 and A3 prints of photos (see section on image purchases)
- Download photos from the galleries (see section on image purchases for conditions for free use of photos)
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