There are a few ways by which you can help the development of this page.
Bird photos: I am looking for thumbnail-sized bird pictures to place on my page header. Seven pictures will be selected randomly every time the page is reloaded (try it). The name of the species, the country where the photo was taken and the name of the photographer will appear when the mouse is brought over the picture, and I can also add a link to the photographer's personal website for each photo. The more photos you provide, the better the chance of having yours displayed. Technical requirements: The thumbnail should be exactly 65 pixels high, and no more than 75 pixels wide. The bird should be large enough to be identifiable and it may be desirable to crop the photos to only show the bird's head in some cases. If you prefer to send me a larger version, I can reduce them to the correct requirements.
Bird checklists: I am continously working on the distribution data. If you have corrections or additions to make to an existing checklist, or a checklist for a new region not already covered, I'd love to hear from you.
Life-history database: One of the next addition to the page will be information about the birds life-history. I have started to compile information on clutch size, incubation period, survival rates, etc., especially for North American birds, but there is still a long way to go to cover all bird species. Any information that you can provide about life-history will be greatly appreciated.
Translations: This site is already available in several languages, and I am always interested to add new ones. If you are interested to provide a new translation, I can send you an Excel file that contains the text of this site (about 2000 words). I am also always looking for bird synonyms in other languages.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank everyone who have helped my build Avibase over the years. Although I have made every effort possible to include the names of everyone who helped me in the list below, I apologize in advance to anyone that I may have forgotten. I will gladly add your name if you contact me. On the other hand if, for any reason, you prefer that your name does not appear in this list, please also let me know.
Anthony Gallon, Hubertus ?, Crystal Adams, Michael Agnes, Richard Alcorn, Pascal Aleixandre, Desmond Allen, Robert Alvo, Waldek Amrozi, Michael J. Anderson, Robert L Anderson, Alejandro Arteaga, Bob Arthurs, Jean-Pierre Artigau, Toby Austin, Alain Baccaert, D & S Badzinski, Pat Baines, Neil and Liz Baker, Christophe Balleron, Richard Banks, Pierre Bannon, Henk Baptist, Thierry Bara, Sam Barclay, Lancaster Barry, Silvio Bassi, Carol Beardmore, Giff Beaton, William Beavitt, Marie-Hélène Bécot, Max Bedacht, Paul Begheyn, Raymond Bellhumeur, Bo Beolens, Björn Bergenholtz, Alison Beringer, Monique Berlinguette, Beto Bertolini, Niv Bessor, Micheline Bisson, Karen Blaakmeer, Robert G. Black, Petr Blahník, Michael Blair, Peter Blancher, Clara Isabel Bohorquez, Fabien Boichard, Philippe Boissel, Luca Borghesio, Eric Bos, Marc Bouclier, Jonathan Braggs, Iain Bray, Jean-Paul Bresteau, Rog broadbent, Jorge Brocca, Joost Brouwer, Michael Bruce, Amélie Bücker, Paul A. Buckley, Clayton Burne, John T. "Terry" Burridge, Terry Burridge, Alan Cairns, Dick Cannings, Pablo Carcamo, Philippe Carchon, Michael Carmody, Eva Casals i Graells, Salvador Cases, Bashir Cassimally, Krister Castren, Jordi Cerdeira i Ribot, Nawa Raj Chapagain, Allen Chartier, Roberto Chavarro, Sharon Chester, Carla Cicero, Paul Clapham, Oriol Clarabuch, John Clark, Rohan Clarke, Glenn Coady, Avner Cohen, John Colby, Didier Collin, Steve Coney, Colin Conroy, Jerry Cooke, Larry Cowan, Richard Craik, Ben Crampton, Mark Cranford, Mary Crickmore, David Crombie, Michael Cunningham, Zoran Cveticanin, Adam D'Onofrio, Wanda Dameron, Normand David, Paul A. Davis, Richard Davis, Horácio de Almeida, Bert de Bruin, Theo de Kok *, Rex I. De Silva., Brindley de Zylva, Claude Declercq, Mark Dennis, Arpit Deomurari, Johnston Derek, Stéphane Deshaies, Andrée Desjardins, Sandra deWitt, Eduardo Díaz, Bruce Dickson Kerr, Ivanche Dimitrievski, Evert Dirks, Zoltan Domahid, Peter Donaldson, David Donsker, Peter Dreyer, Dave Dunford, Milan Durecek, Jeff Eaton, Cameron Eckert, Neotropical Eco Foundation, Art Edwards, Martin Edwards, Camilla Ekblad, Eric Eldredge, Gonçalo Elias, Gunnar Engblom, Faísca, Jean-Michel Fenerole, Jairo Feris D., Joan Carles Fernández-Ordóñez, Michael Fiala, Sean Fitzgerald, Lars Flodmark, Anders Forsell, Alain Fossé *, Jean François, Michael Frankis, Martin Fransson, Olaf Franzen, Juan Freile Ortiz, Jon Friedman, John Furse, Ulla M Gabrielsson, Ricardo Gagliardi, Laura Gangoso, Catherine Garanger, Dennis Garratt, Nicola Gasco, David Gascoigne, Marcel Gauthier, John Geale, Daphne Gemmill, Jeff Gerbracht, Paul Germain, Chris Gibbins, Michel Gierst, Martin Gilbert, Peter Ginsburg, Robert Gloria Farmer, Frédéric Goes, Michel Gosselin, Anita Gould, Christophe Gouraud, David Govan *, Roland Graf, Manuel Grosselet, Zhang Guanyang, Jean-Sébastien Guénette, Lucien Gues, Mirgain Guy, Kari T. Haataja, Anders Hagborg, Cagan Hakki Sekercioglu, Mogens Hall Jensen, Lars Holst Hansen, Louis Hansen, Morten Bentzon Hansen, Jurij Hanzel, Jasef Harb, Jean Hardy, Roy Harvey, Kurt Hasselman, Mark Hauswald, Pierrette Hauteville, Jeffrey Hazell, Thierry Helsens, Scott Henderson, Denis Henri, Pierre-Yves Henri, Feliciano Javier Heredia Pineda, Stefanie Herrmann, Charles Hesse, David Hewett, Daniel Hinckley, Tyler Hoar, William Hofmeyr, Brad Hogue, Peter Holdsworth, Steve Holliday, Paul Holt, Harri Hongisto, Simon Horner, Dave Horton, Rich Hoyer, Jocelyn Hudon, Marie-Anne Hudson, Dani L. Huertas, Anne Hughes, Doreen Hughes, Guy Huot, Marshall Iliff *, Miguel Ilija Fistar, Askar Isabekov, Moldovan Istvan, Niels J Larsen, Nigel Jackett, Peter Jaeger, Carsten Jansen, Alvaro Jaramillo, Rajah Jayapal, Ledant Jean-Paul, Pottelancie Jean-Pierre, Bakshi Jehangir, Mal Jenkins, Arne Jensen, Erling Jirle, Gérard Joannès, Jim Jobe, Tony Jochem, Derek Johnston, Lars Jonsson, Eduardo Jordan, Eduardo A. Jordan, Andrew Judd, Mihkel Jürgens, Vytautas Jusys, Marko Kalker, Kou Kanreino, Krys Kazmierczak, John Keeling, Atakay Kemal, Neville Kemp, Dean Kendall, Patrick Kerboul, Bruno Kestemont, Ian Kirkham, Andris Klepers, Richard Klim, Jerome Ko, Oliver Komar, Patcharee Komolphalin, Lim Kooi Fong, Drazen Kotroan, Peter Kovalik, Diane Kozelka, Bartosz Krakowski, Kees Kuijper, Bertrand Kurtzemann, Dani L Huertas, Antonio Lacasa-Ruiz, Chris Lamsdell, Graham Langley, David LaPuma, Reynold Larsen, Morgan Larsson, Lance Laviolette, Ken Lawson, Daniel Le Dantec, Serge Le Huitouze, Guy Lemelin, Aswin Lemmens, Peter Lengler, John Leonard, Batty Les, Anthony Lévesque, Frédéric Leviez, Catherine Levy, Alan Lewis, Donald Lewis, Jerry Ligon, Ricardo Lima, Ruey-Shing Lin, Johan Lorentzon, Pedro Lourenço, Vegan Luciferis, Jolanda Luksenburg, Ákos Lumnitzer, David Lumsdaine, Lars Lundquist, Gie Luyts, Ian MacGregor, Stu Mackenzie, Barbara MacKinnon, Danielle Madden-Hallett, Tanja Maier, Gaell Mainguy, Carlo Malinverni, Etienne Marais, Art Martell, Schneider Martin, Michael J. McLeish, Bob Medland, Robert Meese, Arnold Meijer, Johan Meyer, Waldek Michalik, Sascha Michel, Pawel Mielczarek, Doug Miller, Edward H. Miller, Guy Mirgain, Emmanuel Mirrales, Andy Mitchell, Steven Mlodinow, István Moldován, Camilo Montañez, Marc-Antoine Montpetit, Milton Moody, Janet Moore, Nial Moores, Joseph Morlan, Elaine Morrall, Alfred Moser, Laurent Moussiegt, Carl Mowery, William Mueller, Henk Mulder, Alf Mullins, Brennan Mulrooney, Ted Murin, Babak Musavi, Stephen Myers, Magne Myklebust, Claude Nadeau, Elnaz Neinavaz, David L. Nelson, Simon C. Nemtzov, Gertrud Neumann-Denzau, George Newton, Seth Nilsson, Michael Noam, Thierry Nogaro, Mark Oberle, David Oeverzwaluw, Georges Olioso, Steffen Oppel, Lex Oskam, Andrew Owen, Jay Packer, Jean Palesi, Dick Palmer, Fauna Paraguay, Nélio Parreira, Gordon Parsons, Rob Parsons, Jim Partington, Andy Paterson, Iubata Paula, Rogerio Paulo, Rogerio Dias Paulo, Roman Pavlat, Paul Pedersen, Bette Pegas, Erkki Perämäki, Charlie Perez, Eneider Perez, Jordi Peris, Yvan Perré, Alan Peterson, Gunnlaugur Pétursson, Daniel Philippe *, Ronald Pieters, Matthew Pike, Hanno Pondaag, Richard Porter, Bruce Potter, Pierre Poulin, Mike Prince, Greg Pringle, Marijn Prins, Steve Pryor, Alessio Quaglierini, Henri Raben, Michal Radziszewski, Simon Ranshaw, Marina Tatiana Rapakulia, Elina Raukko, Scott Ray, Maurice Raymond, Martin Reid, Hermann Reinhardt, Ted Reissing, Van Remsen, Alexandre Renaudier, Mario Renden, Jan Hein Ribot, Terry Rich, Jim Richards, Colin Richardson, Martin Riesing, Jean-Michel Roberge, Don Roberson, Richard Robert, Iain Robertson, Yann Rochepault, Randy Rodgers, José Rodríguez, Herwig Ronsmans, Katja Rossvall, Ashley Rowden, R.L. Rowland, Igor Rozkladaj, Beyens Rudi, David Salas, Keith Salvesen, Rafael Sanchez Perez, Diane Sanscartier, Harri Saptadi, Dave Sargeant, Carl Savignac, Rick Schaefer, Steve Schafer, Paolo Schiannini, John Schiebaan, Jirka Schmidt, Bill Schmoker, Martin Schneider, Valéry Schollaert, Tom Schulenberg, Helmut Schumann, Bev Scott, Roland Seitre, Cagan Sekercioglu, Yeray Seminario, Charles Seniawski, Stan Shadick, Subir Shakya, Chris Shank, Susan Shriner, Maurizio Sighele, Herman Slagter, Harry Smit, Dave Smith, Chris Snyers, Lisa Sorenson, Toon Spanhove, John Spencer, Slim Sreedharan, Claudia Staab, Adrián Stagi, Lennaert Steen, Katarina Stenman, Jacobs Steven, Graeme Stevens, Peter Stronach, David Sutton, Brian Sykes, Fernley Symons, Zdravko Tadic, Zalai Tamás, Hideo Tani, Doug Tate, Patricia Taylor, Rachel Taylor, Rachel C. Taylor, Tracy Taylor, Antony Tebbit, David Tempelman, Max C. Thompson, David Thrussell, Frank and Jolanda Timmermans, Dominique Tissier, Fernando Tizianel, Phil Tizzard, Francis Toldi, Ales Tomazic, Patrick Toomey *, Dave Torr, Flávia Torres Presti, Colin Trainor, Roger Tremblay, Douglas B. Trent, Martin Tribe, Yannis Tsougrakis, Jacques Turgeon, Risto A. Väisänen *, Gerard van Aalst, Rudy van Dalen, Hille van Dam, Jan van den Broeck, Jan van den Broek, Albert van den Ende, Roland van der Vliet, Volkert van der Willigen, Erik van Dijk, Jean P Vande weghe, Martin Vavrik, Liis Veelma, Peter Vercruijsse, Bernardino Villa Bonilla, Jaap Vink, Alexandre Vintchevski, Anders Wahlbom, Mark Wallbank, Eddie Wang, Jo Warnier *, Karl Watson, Jim Welford, Veronique Wemaere, Lars Wessman, Tom Wetmore, Antony Whitehead, Andy Whytock, Jerzy Wierzba, Keith & Janice Wiggers, Roger Wilkinson, Angus Wilson, Andreas Winding, Jack Windsor, Nick Winstead, Barb Winterfield, Peter Woodall, Simon K. Woolley, Lip Kee Yap, Emin Yogurtcuoglu, Scott Young, Edgar Zeitler, Roger Zimmerman, John Zoch *, Christoph Zockler
* indicates a special contributor who provided a large amount of information
