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BirdPhotos.com receives constant requests to use our images, and the majority of these requests presumably go directly to our photographers. Of course requests received for our photographer's photos are forwarded directly to them, and one of these resulted in publication in an international magazine. The point is BirdPhotos.com is an excellent place to get your photos noticed.

Some examples of my (editor, Tom Friedel) images ...

Two photos of tanagers are in the latest and I believe last Handbook of the Birds of the World.

TV Minas in Brazil, a public television station, created an animation from a Harpy Eagle photograph.

... Just to let you know that your picture of the Aztec/Olive-throated conure is in the September issue of Parrots magazine, which has just come out. Plse see website www.parrotmag.com It has been included in the article on Brown-throated conures.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science ... beautiful sandhill crane images ... on a flyer to promote an upcoming lecture on the effects of climate change on wildlife

... I am putting together an educational birding poster for the Overlan Park (Kansas) Arboretum. The poster will include pictures of the 100 bird species ...

The Tawny-breasted Tinamou was published in 'Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms' by British paleontologist Richard Fortey.

... I am writing a book on lagomorphs for Johns Hopkins University Press and would like to use this image but the Press is very fussy about permissions.

... Riverwalk Park and Nature Center in Rockledge, FL. ... For my project, I am creating a magnetic display board for my park. The board will be an interactive educational opportunity for our visitors.

... I work at Tracy Aviary, www.tracyaviary.org, in Salt Lake City, UT. We are a non-profit aviary currently undergoing major construction and renovation. I create the interpretive signage around the aviary and was wondering if you would allow me to use some of your photos on our signs ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife is using my Mangrove Cuckoo photo without permission or attribution at the entrance of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge visitor center. Later they redid the display and attributed the photo, and send me a one year pass.

... I am working for the TV production company white balance gmbh in Hamburg, Germany. For the German public Channel "Das Erste"/ARD we produce a game and quiz show called "The Duel". ... In one of our next shows, our candidates will get the task to memorise ten pictures of threatened species.

Greetings! We loved the zoo photos you sent us in honor of our 30th birthday in July. ... we’d also like to use them for potential Miami Metrozoo (Zoo Miami) ad campaigns or other public relations purposes.

... am contacting you regarding the possibility of sharing photos with NZ customs for the creation of fact sheets to assist in Pacific Nations species identification at their borders. These fact sheets will be used to prevent trafficking of endangered species.

Aviornis Belgium is a non profit organisation (called a VZW in the dutch language) ... when I saw your photos of the female mottled duck ... I wanted to contact you immediately ... print a photo of such a family in the second edition of my book.

... Argentine black & white Tegu. You listed below the photo that it can be used with the proper attribution. I’m interested in using it on the Fox News Channel today.

My name is ... and I am a Brazilian student conducting my PhD at the University of Akron, Ohio. I study the evolution of colors in the feathers of birds ... Boat-tailed grackle ...

... would like to use the attached image of a ruddy ground-dove in a training tool being developed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. and the USFWS

A top birding tour company used several images in their 2012 catalog.

And there are countless internet links to our photos, including the important sites Cracids.org, Parrots.org, and ARKive.com. In March of 2011 BirdPhotos.com has a Google PageRank of 4/10 and had served over 1,000,000 human-viewed pages in 2011 (according to Awstats).