Media Submission
The Atlas uses media submitted here for outreach and other events as needed and to develop a pool of images for use in the final published products.
Have multiple files to share?
Great! You can send us a link to a cloud folder (e.g. Dropbox or Google Drive). Before you send your batch, please submit at least one file with the media submission form below and specify that the Atlas has permission to use the media you will send as a batch. Please identify the subject of each media file by including your name and the species as the file name (e.g., TreeSwallow_JohnSmith.jpeg). Send the link to download your images to atlas@birdsontario.org and specify that it is a batch media submission in the subject line.
Photos for the final publication!
For the final product, we need high quality images of all 300 species of birds that breed in the province, taken during the breeding season. We are especially interested in images that depict breeding behaviours. See photos below for examples of what we’re looking for!
Below is a list of the species we still need photos for, as well as the type of photo we need (i.e., breeding adult, nest, or breeding evidence). Please take a look at our list and see if you can fill any of our gaps!
- Barn Owl (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Black Scoter (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Brewer’s Blackbird (adult and nest)
- Cackling Goose (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Cinnamon Teal (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- King Rail (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Lark Bunting (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Lark Sparrow (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Little Gull (adult and nest)
- Sprague’s Pipit (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- American Avocet (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- American Bittern (nest)
- American Black Duck (nest)
- American Coot (nest)
- American Crow (nest)
- American Three-toed Woodpecker (nest and breeding evidence)
- American Tree Sparrow (nest and breeding evidence)
- American White Pelican (nest and breeding evidence)
- American Wigeon (nest and breeding evidence)
- Bay-breasted Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Belted Kingfisher (nest)
- Black Guillemot (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Black Vulture (nest and breeding evidence)
- Black-backed Woodpecker (nest)
- Black-billed Cuckoo (nest)
- Black-billed Magpie (nest and breeding evidence)
- Black-crowned Night-Heron (nest)
- Black-necked Stilt (nest)
- Black-throated Green Warbler (nest)
- Blackburnian Warbler (nest)
- Blackpoll Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Blue Grosbeak (nest and breeding evidence)
- Blue-winged Teal (nest)
- Blue-winged Warbler (nest)
- Bohemian Waxwing (nest)
- Boreal Chickadee (nest)
- Boreal Owl (nest and breeding evidence)
- Brown Creeper (breeding evidence)
- Bufflehead (nest and breeding evidence)
- California Gull (nest and breeding evidence)
- Canvasback (adult and nest)
- Cape May Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Caspian Tern (adult and nest)
- Cattle Egret (nest and breeding evidence)
- Cerulean Warbler (nest)
- Chuck-will’s-widow (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Chukar (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Clay-colored Sparrow (nest)
- Common Eider (nest)
- Common Goldeneye (nest)
- Common Merganser (nest)
- Common Redpoll (nest and breeding evidence)
- Common Tern (adult and nest)
- Connecticut Warbler (nest)
- Cooper’s Hawk (nest)
- Dickcissel (nest and breeding evidence)
- Downy Woodpecker (nest)
- Eared Grebe (nest and breeding evidence)
- Eastern Meadowlark (nest)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee (nest and breeding evidence)
- Eurasian Collared-Dove (adult, nest, breeding evidence)
- Evening Grosbeak (nest and breeding evidence)
- Field Sparrow (nest)
- Fish Crow (nest and breeding evidence)
- Forster’s Tern (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Fox Sparrow (nest and breeding evidence)
- Gadwall (adult and nest)
- Golden Eagle (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Golden-crowned Kinglet (nest and breeding evidence)
- Golden-winged Warbler (nest)
- Golden-winged x Blue-winged Warbler hybrids (nest and breeding evidence)
- Grasshopper Sparrow (nest)
- Gray Partridge (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Great Black-backed Gull (adult and nest)
- Great Egret (nest)
- Great Gray Owl (nest and breeding evidence)
- Greater Prairie-Chicken (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Greater Yellowlegs (nest and breeding evidence)
- Green Heron (nest)
- Hairy Woodpecker (nest)
- Harris’s Sparrow (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Henslow’s Sparrow (nest)
- Hoary Redpoll (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Hooded Merganser (nest)
- House Finch (nest and breeding evidence)
- Kentucky Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Least Bittern (nest)
- LeConte’s Sparrow (nest)
- Lesser Scaup (nest and breeding evidence)
- Lincoln’s Sparrow (nest)
- Loggerhead Shrike (nest)
- Long-eared Owl (nest)
- Louisiana Waterthrush (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Marbled Godwit (nest and breeding evidence)
- Merlin (nest)
- Mississippi Kite (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Mourning Warbler (nest)
- Nelson’s Sparrow (adult and nest)
- Neotropic Cormorant (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Northern Bobwhite (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Northern Hawk Owl (nest and breeding evidence)
- Northern Mockingbird (nest and breeding evidence)
- Northern Parula (nest)
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow (adult and nest)
- Northern Saw-whet Owl (nest and breeding evidence)
- Northern Shrike (nest and breeding evidence)
- Northern Waterthrush (nest)
- Northern Wheatear (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Olive-sided Flycatcher (adult and nest)
- Orange-crowned Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Orchard Oriole (adult and nest)
- Pacific Loon (nest)
- Palm Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Philadelphia Vireo (breeding evidence)
- Pine Grosbeak (nest and breeding evidence)
- Pine Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Purple Finch (nest and breeding evidence)
- Red Crossbill (nest)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker (breeding evidence)
- Red-breasted Merganser (nest and breeding evidence)
- Redhead (nest and breeding evidence)
- Ring-necked Duck (nest)
- Ring-necked Pheasant (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Rock Pigeon (nest and breeding evidence)
- Ross’s Goose (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet (nest and breeding evidence)
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird (breeding evidence)
- Ruddy Duck (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Rusty Blackbird (breeding evidence)
- Say’s Phoebe (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Sharp-shinned Hawk (adult, nest, breeding evidence)
- Sharp-tailed Grouse (adult and nest)
- Snow Bunting (nest and breeding evidence)
- Snow Goose (nest and breeding evidence)
- Snowy Egret (nest and breeding evidence)
- Solitary Sandpiper (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Spruce Grouse (nest)
- Summer Tanager (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Surf Scoter (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Tufted Titmouse (nest and breeding evidence)
- Turkey Vulture (nest)
- Upland Sandpiper (nest)
- Western Kingbird (nest and breeding evidence)
- Western Meadowlark (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- White-breasted Nuthatch (nest and breeding evidence)
- White-eyed Vireo (nest and breeding evidence)
- White-winged Crossbill (nest)
- White-winged Dove (nest and breeding evidence)
- White-winged Scoter (nest and breeding evidence)
- Wilson’s Phalarope (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Winter Wren (nest and breeding evidence)
- Wood Duck (nest)
- Worm-eating Warbler (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Yellow Rail (nest and breeding evidence)
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo (adult and nest)
- Yellow-breasted Chat (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Yellow-headed Blackbird (nest)
- Yellow-throated Vireo (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Yellow-throated Warbler (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Alder Flycatcher (breeding evidence)
- Bewick’s Wren (adult, nest, and breeding evidence)
- Black Tern (nest)
- Black-and-white Warbler (nest and breeding evidence)
- Blue Jay (nest)
- Blue-headed Vireo (breeding evidence)
- Bobolink (nest)
- Bonaparte’s Gull (nest)
- Broad-winged Hawk (nest)
- Canada Warbler (nest)
- Carolina Wren (nest)
- Cliff Swallow (adult)
- Common Gallinule (nest)
- European Starling (nest)
- Great Horned Owl (adult)
- Greater Scaup (nest and breeding evidence)
- Green-winged Teal (nest)
- House Sparrow (nest)
- Hudsonian Godwit (nest)
- King Eider (nest)
- Least Flycatcher (adult)
- Least Sandpiper (breeding evidence)
- Lesser Yellowlegs (nest)
- Mute Swan (nest)
- Northern Cardinal (nest)
- Northern Goshawk (adult and nest)
- Northern Pintail (breeding evidence)
- Northern Shoveler (nest)
- Parasitic Jaeger (nest)
- Pied-billed Grebe (adult)
- Pine Siskin (nest)
- Piping Plover (nest)
- Prairie Warbler (nest)
- Red-headed Woodpecker (breeding evidence)
- Red-shouldered Hawk (adult and nest)
- Red-tailed Hawk (nest)
- Scarlet Tanager (nest)
- Sora (nest)
- Swainson’s Thrush (breeding evidence)
- Trumpeter Swan (adult)
- Virginia Rail (nest)
- White-crowned Sparrow (nest)
- Willow Flycatcher (adult
Atlas-3 Media Use Agreement
This Media Use Agreement is for the specific Media (photograph, video, audio) voluntarily supplied by the Licensor to the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas-3 Partners (see current list of partners) – hereafter referred to as “the Atlas-3 Partners”.
The Licensor grants the Atlas-3 Partners a fully paid, royalty-free licence, in perpetuity, to publish and use the Media, in whole or in part, for materials relating specifically to the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas.
(If applicable) The Licensor has obtained permission from the subject whose likeness is featured in this submission for the use of the likeness in materials developed by or on behalf the Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas, including posters, photographs, videos, films and multimedia products. The subject releases the Atlas Partners from all liability for any claim of infringement of publicity or privacy rights that the subject might otherwise have had in connection with the use of their likeness. The subject also agrees that the likeness or representations of their likeness may be exhibited, shown or reproduced in any media.
The Licensor agrees to allow the Media to be modified for use, including, but not limited to, cropping, and changes to contrast, brightness and colour saturation.
The Licensor warrants that they are the legal owner of the copyright in the Media. This agreement in no way prohibits the Licensor from providing the Media to others for their use, or prohibits the Licensor from using the Media for the Licensor’s own purposes.
The Licensor hereby releases and discharges the Atlas Partners from any liability for libel, invasion of privacy, and all causes of action and demands whatsoever which the Licensor may at any time incur as a result of any act, matter or thing whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the consent and authorization given by the Licensor in this Agreement.
The Atlas Partners agree to credit the Licensor by including the Licensor’s name as indicated herein, adjacent to the published Media.
The Licensor agrees their Media was taken in accordance with the Code of Ethics.
The Licensor acknowledges reading the entire Media Use Agreement prior to submission and is familiar with the content thereof.