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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 spasmodically) | Old World Bird | Other Wildlife |
25 January 2012: this site contains
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Contents: (Use these links to page down to:) |
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Bird of the Week#439: Paradise Shelduck, 17 January 2012 |
Instant Links to Bird Families: 1 of 2 Non-passerines (Non Song-birds)
(Hold cursor over any image to list gallery contents; solid green borders indicate families represented in Australasia)
2 of 2 Passerines (Song-birds)
(Hold cursor over any image to list gallery contents; solid green borders indicate families represented in Australasia)
Recent Additions: (Most recent on left - use scroll bar for earlier ones; hold cursor over thumbnail to see date and changes)
News
19 January 2012: Organisation of Australian Birds
Two changes are underway:
- the Australian 'green' zone is being expanded to Australasian to accommodate New Zealand birds;
- Ian is changing the taxonomic sequence of this zone from that of Christidis & Boles, 2008, to that of BirdLife International.
The switch to BirdLife International is for the following reasons:
- Christidis & Boles do not include New Zealand birds not on the Australian list;
- Christidis & Boles have indicated that their 2008 edition is the last so there will be no further updates;
- this website will be simpler as the sequence of Australasian birds will be the same as that of global birds.
The green zone next and previous family links have already been updated. The pages of family thumbnails are progressively being changed and each species thumbnail on these updated pages is qualified with (Aus, NZ), (Aus) or (NZ) to indicate whether the species on the accepted list of each country.
9 December 2011:
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Ian is back on the mainland after a trip to the islands south of New Zealand and Australia and it's business as usual again. During the trip he photograph penguins, albatrosses and other seabirds currently poorly represented on the website and, on the way back, most of the Tasmanian endemics. Join the Bird of the Week group if you're not already a member (just enter your email in the box on the right and click Subscribe) so you can share the experience and get the resulting photos.
12 August 2011: Layout of Photo Galleries
Ian has finished 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
- links from each imagepage to all the regional thumbnail pages of that family (Global, Australasian, New World and Old World thumbnails where applicable).
Inclusion of Photos of Captive Birds
Up till now Ian has included only photos of wild birds in the website. Sometimes he gets requests for species that he has photographed in captivity, so he has decided to include some of special interest if they are photographed in natural-looking environments. The location name will be specified as 'in captivity'. The first examples are the Little Penguin and the Malleefowl.
24 February 2011: Taxonomic Index to Australian Birds
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Ian has introduced an index or chart showing all the orders and families of birds that occur in Australia (the main list of Christidis & Boles, 2008) with links from the families to the corresponding pages of Australasian thumbnails. There are 23 orders and 103 families of Australian birds; all except 5 of these families are represented in this website. These 5 families are included in the chart (without links) so that you can see which ones are missing and where they are placed in the taxonomic hierarchy. |
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The chart can be found by following the grey navigation button 'Indices to Australian Birds' (replacing 'Index to Australian Birds') present on all main pages and clicking the sub-ordinate grey button labelled 'Australian Taxonomic Index" on the Australian Alphabetic Index page. |
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20 February 2011: Links between Australasian FamiliesIan has completed replacing the global next/previous family links between Australasian bird families in the Australasian thumbnail pages so that they follow the order in Christidis & Boles (2008) and include only families represented in Australia. These Australasian family links are highlighted with green backgrounds, matching the background colour of Australasian thumbnails. |
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The background colours of the links to thumbnail pages have also been changed. This means that if you are only interested in Australasian birds and families, you can remain in the green Australasian 'zone' and move forwards and backwards through the Australasian families and species. The background colour of the alphabetical index pages have been changed too. Have a look at the Australian Index to see the new look. |
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22 July 2010: Conservation- and/or Education-Related Projects
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').
11 May 2010: Home Page Reorganization
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.
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.
23 March 2009: Ian now encourages free use of images on personal and conservation-related websites in exchange for links.
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).
Browsing the Galleries
Each photo gallery is a collection of one or more photos of a single species. Species are organised into their taxonomic families by way of global family index pages that contain one thumbnail image for each species. Families are organised in taxonomic sequence by previous and next links between the global index pages. The global index pages are supplemented, where appropriate, by regional index pages contain subsets of the global thumbnails to show which species occur in each of the major regions: Australasia; the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (Eurasian and Africa).
You can access the family index pages by using the thumbnails in the Instant Link to Families above, or by searching by English bird names in either the Global or regional Alphabetical Index pages:
- Whole World
- Australasia
- Old World (Eurasia and Africa)
- New World (the Americas).
These Alphabetic Indexes are accessible using the grey navigation buttons at the top of all the main pages and all the family index pages.
The background colours of regional family thumbnails are as follows:
In this site you can:
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- 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)