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Version 1.4 of 20 27 Oct 2016

DNCB Photographers

Moving from Picasa to Flickr

Table of Contents

One Pager: Adding your pictures to Flickr and the DNCB Group .................................................................. 2

Detailed discussion for DNCB Photogs new to Flickr .................................................................................... 3

Introducing some of the features of Flickr ............................................................................................... 3

Preparation for uploading to Flickr ........................................................................................................... 5

Steps to follow to add your pictures ......................................................................................................... 6

Appendix 1: Recommended tags to use for Locations and Events ............................................................. 11

Appendix 2: Recommended naming to use for Species ............................................................................. 14

Appendix 3: Priority features and how they are supported within Flickr................................................... 20

Revisions

1.0 24 Aug 2016 First release

1.1 02 Sep 2016 Improved one-pager, adds to Appendix 1

1.2 08 Sep 2016 More changes to Appendix 1, added Event codes

1.3 16 Sep 2016 More changes to Appendix 1

1.4 27 Oct 2016 Update to the one-pager


One Pager: Adding your pictures to Flickr and the DNCB Group

This assumes that you already have created a Flickr account and know how to use Flickr. If you need additional details,

they are in the 20 page version of this document on the DNCB Blog.

We created a Group called DNCB at http://flickr.com/groups/DNCB. The following will help all Photogs add photos in the

same way and thus make it more likely that random Viewers will be able to find what they’re looking for. There are 2

group Admins so far (Jack MacDonald and Glen Bodie) if you need help.

1. Clean up and prepare all your pictures on your Desktop. If you have the tools, you can also update the JPG files

with Title, Description and Tags.

2. Login to your personal Flickr account, open the Uploadr and drag ‘n drop all the photos from your desktop

folder onto the Uploadr web page. Set this metadata in the Uploadr:

a. On all photos (if you haven’t already added these Tags on your Desktop):

i. Add a tag for the DNCB Outing as YYYY-## as given in the Blog and the Blog Archive (see

https://dncb.wordpress.com/about/dncb-destinations/) and at the same time you can also…

ii. Add a tag for the Location(s) as described in Appendix 1.

iii. Add a “DNCB” tag. Doing all these tags at once saves you time.

iv. Add to Group: select DNCB, your pictures will get sent there automatically when the Uploadr

finishes publishing them (Step 3 below).

v. Optional: Create a new Album to hold all these pictures (recommended).

b. On each photo (if you haven’t already added these fields on your Desktop):

i. Edit the Title field to contain the Bird Species (see Appendix 2). It can be the full name of the bird

with additional qualifiers, or as simple as “Gull”.

ii. Edit the Description field if there is more to say than just the Species (you may want to save the

image # here because Flickr will lose that when it uploads the image file).

iii. Add any other Tags you want (e.g., your name, species, features?). Tags for DNCB, the Outing # and

Location are required tags for the DNCB group. The Species goes in the Title. Follow the Appendices

for Outing #, Location and Species.

Note: all photos in the DNCB Group must be Public viewable (that’s the default setting).

Note: all photos are tagged by default with you as the Owner and All Rights Reserved.

Note: contact an Admin if you do not want to use a personal Flickr account for your DNCB pictures.

3. Complete the Upload / Publishing (button in the top right).

4. Optional: If you made an Album, open it and set the cover picture, and sort the pictures by the date taken or by

manually moving them around. Albums are helpful for organizing lot of pictures in your account.

5. Optional: Use the Organizr and select your Album to put some or all of the photos on the Map.

For your existing Flickr photos that are not tagged or in Albums or added to the DNCB group:

1. Click on Albums, Create new Album, give it a Title, add the photos from the Findr area across the bottom and

Save.

2. Click on Batch Organize, select your Album or select “todays” pictures at the bottom, click all and drag the

pictures up to the main part of the screen, add mandatory tags (DNCB, Outing #, Location) and Send to Group.

3. Optional: Select Map and place those photos on the right place on the Map.


Detailed discussion for DNCB Photogs new to Flickr

Introducing some of the features of Flickr

• Join Flickr at http://flickr.com. We are recommending that all photogs create a Flickr account for

themselves. It’s a good tool for all of your photo sharing needs, and having your own account

makes it easier/better for you to post your pictures for viewing by the DNCB readership.

Besides, the Flickr account is FREE for 1 Tb of storage! People do NOT have to have a Flickr

account just to view your pictures … viewing will be made Public.

o Your Flickr account requires you to get a @yahoo.com email address which is your Flickr

logon ID. You will also have a “screen name” which is how you are recognized within

Flickr by anyone looking at your pictures.

o You can (and should) change the primary email notification so that messages from Flickr

and Flickr users goes to a mailbox you normally look at. Login as you and at the top right

corner there is an icon for your account. If you click on it you get a popup menu and a

link across the bottom of it says Settings. A display comes up with 4 tabs. You might

want to change several things, but for now go to “Emails & Notifications” and click the

“edit” link to the right of “Your contact email(s)”. Add another email address, respond to

the verification it sends to that email address and then make that email address your

Primary one.

o Sooner or later, you ought to change the “Buddy icon” for your account. This is a small

picture of something that you want to represent you in lists and things.

o On your main Flickr page in the top right area there is a search bar. Type in DNCB and

click Search Groups. That will find the DNCB group that we have set up. Click the Join

button and it will tell you that membership is by invitation only, and give you a place to

send a message to the Group Admin to be added to the group. It may take a day or two

before the Admins notice your request and act on it. If you can wait until you’ve been

added before trying all the steps below it might make it easier to follow.

• Now for some explanations of some of the key features of Flickr that we’ll be using:

o Camera Roll – pictures get uploaded into this view of your pictures, and only you can see

this view by default. The pictures are in “most recent picture first” order by default. You

can view pictures from here, select pictures, edit the information about them and “tag”

them (more on tagging later). By default, all pictures you upload are stored as “All rights

reserved”.

One of the views is called Magic View and it groups the pictures by what it THINKS they

contain. It is very clever, often fatally wrong, sometimes just amusing. It automatically

analyzes the pictures and puts “tags” on it that it thinks are appropriate. I am learning

that the only tags that are right are the ones I add myself, and you should definitely be

doing some tagging of your photos (more on tagging later). It matters.


o Photostream – this is the subset of your Camera Roll that others can see depending on

the security you applied to your pictures and who is the viewer. For our purposes,

anything we want to post for the DNCB we will make Public.

o Albums – within your account you can group pictures together into an Album, very

similarly to what we used to do in Picasa. You pick the pictures that you want in the

Camera Roll, and at the bottom of the screen there is an Add to Album link to add to an

existing Album or create a New one. Once created, you can open the Album to view it,

click on “Edit in Organizer” at the top of the Album to change the order of the pictures

and make some changes to all of the pictures. From this view you can Batch edit and (as

an example) send all the pictures to a Group.

o Groups – we have a DNCB group. This is not an account like your personal Flickr

account. It is a virtual place where all the photogs can put some or all of their pictures.

This is where the DNCB blog will send people to see our pictures from a weekly outing.

It’s going to be a bit of a change for all those viewers because Groups cannot contain

Albums. That means that they will have to know a bit more about how to find the recent

outing (or any other outing for that matter). We’ve added some help information for

anyone who comes to the group. It becomes VERY important for the photogs to tag

their photos well so that they can be found! But it’s even more useful to someone trying

to learn about the birds because they can see all the pictures of a Swan (for example) or

all the pictures from Serpentine Fen (for example). But it will take some practice.

Groups can also contain Discussions about anything you want. We already have a few

discussions started to help people with Naming things and finding things.

Right now there are 2 different views of pictures called Groups: the original Flickr

version and the new Beta version of the New Group Experience! You can toggle back

and forth between them. They behave is slightly different ways but the newer one is

better and will eventually replace the original. All descriptions following in this write-up

are using the Beta version.

This is the Beta View of a Group:

- Admin Blast text is above the pictures

- Photo Pool Line just above pictures

- bottom right corner has a Beta Group

switch you can turn off.


This is the Original View of a Group:

- Admin Blast text is beside the pictures

- Doesn’t say Photo Pool anywhere

- line across the top just above the

Swallows gives you a link to go back to

the Beta version

If you are not logged in with a Flickr account, I think you only can see the Beta version.

o Tagging –When you upload a picture, you get to define many things “about the picture”

(called meta data). You can add Tags which are one word each and these are words that

people might want to search for if they were looking for your picture. The kind of thing

to include here is the Location and the Species of bird. The search engine is completely

literal and it will only find full word matches – but if we are disciplined in the tags we

apply to pictures, searches will be successful. We are proposing a list of standard

location names and standard bird names for everyone to reduce the variation that could

result in pictures not getting found.

• We don’t yet know for sure if we can transfer all of our saved pictures from Picasa and Google

Photos into Flickr. The first problem is to get them all out of Picasa/Google WITH their captions

and organization into Albums. The second problem is to take all that metadata and structure

and somehow import it into Flickr. We’re working on finding ways. If we fail, we may have to

rely on Google Photos and Picasa Web Archives for our “history”. We’re working on it.

Preparation for uploading to Flickr

• You have taken photos and uploaded them to your

computer.

• You have done all the image modification that you need

on your computer. There are lots of programs for this

so, if you’re not sure what tool to use, just ask some

other photog for some suggestions.

• You have identified the bird species in each photo. Read

the info on tagging for why this matters. You could:

a) edit the Title field in the EXIF metadata, accessible by

many tools including the Details tab of the File

Properties in Windows Explorer (shown here), or

b) update the filename of each photo to contain the

name of the bird, possibly something like:


“YYYY Location Photo# - Bird.jpg”,

and Flickr will use the filename as the Title, or

c) wait and put the Species name on the picture Title when you are uploading it to Flickr.

• You have identified the specific list of pictures you want to present for DNCB.

• You’re ready to get them onto the DNCB site ….

Steps to follow to add your pictures

1. Using your web browser, go to http://flickr.com and logon to your personal Flickr account. If you

are just a casual uploader and don’t want to get a Flickr account OR if you already have a Flickr

account but you don’t want all your messy DNCB photos to be seen there, then you can also

login using the DNCB account at [email protected] with the same password as we used

with the Picasa site. If you do that, your pictures will not be associated with your name unless

you also add a tag giving your name or Flickr screen name so people can use that to search for

you if they like your pictures.

2. Near the upper right corner of the screen, click on the little icon that looks like

to upload new pictures. The upload page will open.

3. Open your file explorer to the folder where you have all your pictures to be uploaded. Select all

of the ones you want to upload, and drag and drop them onto the Flickr upload page. There is

SO MUCH space available to you in Flickr that you maybe just want to upload every frame you

ever shot. Once the ones you want have all been uploaded, they appear as small images with

the filename below and a place to enter the Description. Suggested actions:

a. Highlight all the photos (they have a red border when highlighted) and add a tag for the

DNCB Outing. See the numbering used in the Blog – the recent trip to Salt Spring was

2016-32, so they are all YYYY-## format. A complete historical list of these Outing

numbers is provided on the Blog site at:

https://dncb.wordpress.com/about/dncb-destinations/

b. Highlight all the photos and add a tag for the location. See Appendix 1 following and also

included in the DNCB Group Discussion.

c. By default, all of your photos are tagged as “Public viewable and searchable”, Safe for

minors to see, and All Rights Reserved to you. You can change any of these settings if

you want by highlighting the pictures you want to change and clicking on Owner

Settings in the left side menu. Any pictures that you are sending to the DNCB Group

have to be Public view because people who are not Flickr members need to be able to

see them.

d. Identify the Species. There are a number of ways this COULD be done, but we really all

need to agree on the one way we will all use so that searches across all of our photos

will be successful. Our proposal is that you use the top line underneath the small picture


which is the Title field from your EXIF data, or your file name. The search algorithm will

do a full word, full text search (not case sensitive) of that Title field but it does NOT

handle wild cards or partial words. That means Heron is different than Herons, and of

course Great Blue Heron is not the same as GBH.

We recommend that you use the FULL name of each bird, so far as you know it, include

the hyphens and avoid all short forms and plurals. For any given species in your photo

you do NOT have to use all of the detailed names in the Title – you might just want to

Title your picture as a “Gull”. See Appendix 2 following for a pretty complete list of bird

species at the end.

e. If you need to describe more than the species, perhaps the environment or the

behaviour or amusing commentary, you can put that on the line below called

“Description”.

f. If you want to add some of all of the photos to an existing of new Album, you can do

that from this same display before the upload is completed.

4. Having completed all that tagging and labelling, you’re ready to add the photos to your Camera

Roll. Click on the flashing “Upload ## Photos” in the top right corner. Flickr will “publish” those

photos to your Camera Roll, and present your Photostream showing you all the pictures with the

most recent ones first.

5. At this point every photo you uploaded is in your Flickr account, but not in the DNCB Group. You

can organize your photos into Albums, if you want to, by going to the Camera Roll, selecting the

pictures you want to include (you can click on first and shift-click on last) and clicking on Add to

Album in the menu across the bottom. You can add them to an existing Album of yours, or you

can Create a new Album. A new Album just needs a title and optional description and you can

call it anything you want without affecting how your photos are used in the DNCB.

6. When looking at the Camera Roll or Photostream or a specific Album there is a dropdown menu

on the right side of the Title line that says More. Under there is Organize – and you can use that

to reorder the photos, make bulk edits, add the pictures to the Map, or add to a Group. Now we

want to add these photos into the DNCB Group.

a. At the bottom of that Organizr view is an area that Flickr calls the Findr. You can select

an Album name, or enter the DNCB outing Number that you tagged all the photos with

into the Search box, and Findr will show you all those pictures.

b. Click “Select all” just above those little pictures to highlight / select all of the photos.

Then click on one and drag them all up into the main Organizr space.


c. The menu across the top of the Organizr space has a selection to “Send to group”.

Everyone will be limited to only add 20 pictures per day. That is meant to encourage you

to be selective and only upload the really good and useful photos. But if you have more

than that which you really want to upload, you can do 20 more of them the next day

and the next. If you try to upload more than 20 in one day it pops up a little message

telling you to try again because it doesn’t know which 20 (of your many many excellent

selected photos) it should put into the Group.

For our initial test period, we have taken that limit away so you can put more of your

pictures into the DNCB Group to get it started. Click on Send to Group, select the DNCB

Group, and it will add your photos to the DNCB “photo pool”.

If you want to geo-tag your photos and locate them on the Map, here is one way to do it. I don’t

know if Flickr can process the geolocation if it is provided in the EXIF data if your camera has a

GPS built-in. Regardless, here is one way. However you get into the Organizr, and however you

find a group of photos in the Findr, then call up the Map from the Organizr menu across the top.

Position the map to the place you want (pan and zoom), select the desired photos from the

Findr area and drag and drop that selection on the map. You’ll have a little “dot” associated with

the selection and you can drop that dot anywhere to place those photos at that spot.

7. Let’s go see what it looks like in the Group (Beta version). Under your regular account display

there are a couple of ways to get to the display of the Groups which you belong to. As time goes

on, you are likely to want to belong to a large number of other groups just because they’re

interesting. Some you might think about as a Birder are:

• Birds Photos

• Birds birds birds birds!

• Field Guide: Birds of British Columbia, Canada

• Owls

• Wild Birds of North America

• Raptors of North America

• BirdWatching Magazine

• The Birds of British Columbia

• Shorebirds of British Columbia

• British Columbia Birds

But for now let’s just go to the Group called DNCB. The default display is the Photo Pool. On the

line just above the pictures, at the right side edge, there is a magnifying glass. This is the tool

that everyone will use to find the particular pictures they want, and it will rely on the

information you have provided about each picture for them to find it. People might also look at

the Map to see where we have been.

We have put specific information in Appendix 1 (Locations) and Appendix 2 (Species) so that you


can all identify things in a consistent way, so that everyone else can find them. When you click

the search magnifying glass, the search panel above starts with DNCB and Photos in it and space

for you to type. What can you type?

• The DNCB Blog Outing Number YYYY-## which you would know if you read the Blog.

• The Location, the one word meaning the place where we went, according to the tags

given in Appendix 1.

• The Species, one or more of the words that are listed in Appendix 2 to describe all the

birds we find around Vancouver.

• Any other word(s) you want, but it may be that no one has tagged their photos with

those words … it’s a crap shoot!

• Search is for whole words only e.g. a search for "yellowlegs" could show several photos,

but a search for "yellow" could show nothing. Likewise, a search for "yellow-" would not

show photos of yellow-rumped warblers.

• There is no "clear" button to remove the filter - instead you just delete the search terms

from the search box.

• Clicking the X in the search box will cause the search to revert to all Flickr photos,

instead of being restricted to the DNCB group. The search results are subsequently

divided between people you follow and everyone else. It probably shows you a LOT

more pictures than you were actually looking for.

One thing that I don’t like too much is that, for a non-experienced Flickr user (without a Flickr

ID), once you get to a subset of the DNCB Group Photo Pool, it is VERY easy to go wandering off

into some photographer’s work, other groups, then other photographers and other pictures that

have nothing to do with what you came there to look at. I don’t think there’s any way (or any

desire for Flickr to try) to keep people within a certain context once they get there. We’ll have to

try to educate our viewers.

8. For any set of pictures that were shown to you, in the whole Group Pool or in some search

subset, you can click on any Photo to see a larger image and find out more about it. Below the

image you can see the name of the photographer, the Title and Description that you set when

you were uploading, the Date, information about which Camera settings were used, details

about the privacy and searchability. From there you can scroll through the other pictures that

were in your search results. On any picture you can click on it to expand it / make it larger so

you see more, and click again to go back to normal size.

You, or anyone who has a Flickr ID, can add a comment. Unfortunately, we cannot make it

possible for non-Flickr users to add comments. But even if you don’t have a Flickr ID, you can

click on links in the details to take you to the Photographer’s site, or just the Album that

contains this photo. It should make it very easy for the general DNCB Blog viewer to find out

what we’ve done lately, and find more pictures from any particular photographer.


There’s really so much more in what you can do in Flickr, especially how you can connect with others

and share your photos. This write-up was focussed more on what you need to do for using Flickr for the

DNCB and how you can make it easier for everyone else to find your photos. Please fool around and try

things out within your own Flickr account, but be a little careful about what you might put into the DNCB

group. We’d like to have a well enough structured use of this flexible tool that it will give value to all

those people out there who don’t take pictures and don’t have any idea what tagging a photo means.

Problems? If you have any issues or problems or want to do something more than adding and editing

your Photos and your Albums, please contact the Administrators for the DNCB Group – Jack MacDonald

or Glen Bodie.


Appendix 1: Recommended tags to use for Locations and Events

In order for the Flickr searching to be able to find your pictures based on the Location where they were

taken, we all have to use the same tags for the same Locations. If I tag a picture with “Boundary” and

you tag it with “BBRP” then no search will ever find both of our pictures … it is as though they were

taken in different places.

The source for this list is all the sites we could find where DNCB have already visited, and we picked one

word tags to represent that. In some cases we used a compound word tag. If we ever want to change

any of these there may be a LOT of pictures to edit to make corrections, so let’s recommend any

changes quickly, and then live with it!

Where necessary, more than one location tag can be used, often accompanied by an Event tag (see the

next table in this Appendix).

Tags for Locations

Tag to use in Flickr Full name of this Location

Alaksen Alaksen National Wildlife Area, Delta, BC

Ambleside Ambleside Park, West Vancouver, BC

Barnston Barnston Island, Surrey, BC

BeachGrove Beach Grove, Tsawwassen, Delta, BC

Blackie Blackie Spit, Surrey, BC

Blaine Blaine Wharf, Drayton Harbor, Semiahmoo Resort, Washington, USA

Bloedel Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver, BC

BoundaryBay Boundary Bay Regional Park, Delta, BC

BowenIsland Bowen Island, BC

Brunswick Brunswick Point, Delta, BC

BrydonHiKnoll Brydon Lagoon and Hi-Knoll Park, Langley, BC REVISED

Burnaby Burnaby Mountain and Burnaby Lake, Burnaby, BC

BurnsBog Burns Bog, Delta, BC

Camosun Camosun Bog, Vancouver, BC

Campbell Campbell Valley Regional Park, Langley, BC

Cates Cates Park, North Vancouver, BC

Cheam Cheam Lake Wetlands Regional Park, Chilliwack, BC

Colony Colony Farm Regional Park, Port Coquitlam, BC

Cypress Yew Lake, Cypress Mountain Park, Bowen Lookout, West Vancouver, BC

Deas Deas Island Regional Park, Delta, BC

DeerLake Deer Lake Park, Burnaby, BC

Derby Derby Reach Regional Park, Langley, BC

Dike Boundary Bay Dike at various cross streets in Delta and Surrey, BC

Dollarton Dollarton and Deep Cove, BC


Elgin Elgin Heritage Park, Surrey, BC

Ferry Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal Causeway, Delta, BC

Fraser Fraser River from #5 Road to Garry Point, Richmond, BC

GulfIslands Salt Spring, Mayne, Pender, Galiano Islands, BC

Harrison Harrison Mills, BC

Iona Iona Beach Regional Park, Richmond, BC

Jericho Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC

Kwomais Kwomais Point Park, Surrey, BC

Ladner Ladner Harbour Park and South Arm Marsh, Delta, BC

LighthousePark Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver, BC

Manning E C Manning Provincial Park, BC

Maplewood Maplewood Flats Conservation Area, North Vancouver, BC

MillLake Mill Lake, Abbotsford, BC

Minnekhada Minnekhada Regional Park, Coquitlam, BC

MtBaker Mt Baker, Washington, USA

MudBay Mud Bay Park, Surrey, BC

North40 North 40 Dog Park, Delta, BC

Pier White Rock Pier, White Rock, BC

Pitt Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve, Pitt Lake and Grant Narrows, BC

PointRoberts Lighthouse Marine Park, Point Roberts, Washington, USA

PortMoody Port Moody, BC

QEPark Queen Elizabeth Park, Vancouver, BC

Reifel George C Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Delta, BC

SanJuan San Juan Islands, Washington, USA

Serpentine Serpentine Fen, Surrey, BC

SFU Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Skagit Skagit Valley, Washington, BC

StanleyPark Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC

Sunnyside Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest, Surrey, BC

SurreyBend Surrey Bend Regional Park, Surrey, BC

Tennant Tennant Lake Park, Ferndale, Washington, USA

TerraNova Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond, BC

TFN Tsawwassen First Nations Land, Delta, BC

Tynehead Tynehead Regional Park, Surrey, BC

UBC UBC Botanical Gardens and Pacific Spirit Park, Vancouver, BC

VanDusen Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver, BC

Whitehorn Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve, Blaine, Washington, USA

Whytecliff Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, BC


Tags for Events

There are other DNCB Events for which we take pictures and they should use the following tags on all

those uploaded photos so that they can be found by people. All DNCB bird watching outings have a

number - and a complete list of them is provided in the DNCB blog website under “Previous Outings”.

These Event tags serve the same purpose.

Tag to use in Flickr Full Meaning of the Tag

AnimalExpo Animal Expo in Memorial Park, Ladner, BC

BBPA “Boundary Bay Park Association” including “Cammidge House Committee”

BootSale Car Boot Sale at Centennial Beach, can also use Event tag “BBPA”

BOTB “Birds on the Bay”, can also use Location tag “BoundaryBay”

DayAtTheFarm Day at the Farm on Westham Island, Delta, BC

Earthwise Earthwise Farm, Delta, BC

FathersDay Father’s Day Breakfast, Sunday in the Park at Centennial Beach, can also use

Location tag “BoundaryBay”

GardenParty Delta Naturalists’ Society annual Garden Party

LandFill Open House at the Vancouver Landfill, Delta, BC

HeritageDay Delta, BC

MothersDay Mother’s Day Tea with the Birds at Cammidge House, can also use Event tag

“BBPA” and/or Location tag “BoundaryBay”

NatureKids Nature Kids events

NestBox Delta Nats Nesting Box Maintenance, many Location tags possible

RaptorFestival Richmond Raptor Festival in Terra Nova Park, so can also use Location tag

“TerraNova”

StarryNight Starry Night on Deas Island, so can also use Location tag “Deas”

Watershed Fish Release at Watershed Park, North Delta, BC

More Location tags and Event tags can be added at any time. If you can’t find one that matches what

you need, ask one of the DNCB Flickr Admins (Jack and Glen).

We’re hoping to figure out a way that the drop-down list for picking these tags can get pre-populated

for you with all the “right” tags.


Appendix 2: Recommended naming to use for Species

In order for the Flickr searching to be able to find your pictures based on the specific species of bird, we

all have to use the same names for the same birds. If I title a picture with “Heron” and you title it with

“GBH” then no search will ever find both of our pictures … it is as though they were taken of different

birds.

With birds it is a little different than Locations because you can always title a bird to different levels of

detail. For example, it may be a Sparrow, and Golden-crowned, and a male, and a juvenile. That’s 4

words in the Title. You can imagine someone searching for all the Sparrows, or just all the Golden-

crowned (and Sparrow too to make sure they don’t get a Golden-crowned Kinglet by mistake), or maybe

all the male Sparrows, or maybe all the juvenile male anythings.

The source for this list is all the Nature Vancouver Seasonal Check List (August 2013) at

http://naturevancouver.ca/sites/naturevancouver.ca/VNHS%20files/Birds%20of%20Greater%20Vancou

ver%20Checklist.pdf. For any given species in your photo you do NOT have to use all of the detailed

names in the Title – you might just want to Title your picture as a “Gull”. This list is sorted alphabetically

by the Main Name of the species.

This Appendix is also in a Discussion on the DNCB Group but only group members can see that.

You may disagree with the way some of the birds are named in this list – that’s why I used Nature

Vancouver as my source! If we ever want to change any of these there may be a LOT of pictures to edit

to make corrections, so let’s recommend any changes quickly, and then live with it!

As well as this list, you can also add other qualifier words to the Title field for the full-text search. But

let’s all be consistent and use this same set:

• Male, Female, Pair

• Juvenile, Immature, Moulting, Eclipsed

Anything in Italics in this table is optional – common or useful, but not the official name of the Species. I

added them so that someone searching for a Duck would find a Bufflehead, for example.

Full Name of Species Main Name

Siberian Accentor Accentor

Laysan Albatross Albatross

Cassin's Auklet Auklet

Rhinoceros Auklet Auklet

American Avocet Avocet

American Bittern Bittern

Least Bittern Bittern

Brewer's Blackbird Blackbird

Red-winged Blackbird Blackbird

Rusty Blackbird Blackbird

Yellow-headed Blackbird Blackbird

Mountain Bluebird Bluebird

Western Bluebird Bluebird

Red-flanked Bluetail Bluetail

Bobolink Bobolink

Brambling Brambling

Brant Goose Brant

Bufflehead Duck Bufflehead

Indigo Bunting Bunting


Lark Bunting Bunting

Lazuli Bunting Bunting

McKay's Bunting Bunting

Painted Bunting Bunting

Snow Bunting Bunting

Bushtit Bushtit

Canvasback Duck Canvasback

Gray Catbird Catbird

Yellow-breasted Chat Chat

Black-capped Chickadee Chickadee

Boreal Chickadee Chickadee

Chestnut-backed Chickadee Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee Chickadee

Eurasian Collared-Dove Collared-Dove

American Coot Coot

Brandt's Cormorant Cormorant

Double-crested Cormorant Cormorant

Pelagic Cormorant Cormorant

Brown-headed Cowbird Cowbird

Sandhill Crane Crane

Brown Creeper Creeper

Red Crossbill Crossbill

White-winged Crossbill Crossbill

Northwestern Crow Crow

Yellow-billed Cuckoo Cuckoo

Bristle-thighed Curlew Curlew

Far Eastern Curlew Curlew

Little Curlew Curlew

Long-billed Curlew Curlew

Dickcissel Dickcissel

American Dipper Dipper

Mourning Dove Dove

Oriental Turtle-Dove Turtle-Dove

Long-billed Dowitcher Dowitcher

Short-billed Dowitcher Dowitcher

Black Duck Duck

Harlequin Duck Duck

Long-tailed Duck Duck

Ring-necked Duck Duck

Ruddy Duck Duck

Tufted Duck Duck

Wood Duck Duck

Dunlin Dunlin

Bald Eagle Eagle

Golden Eagle Eagle

Cattle Egret Egret

Great Egret Egret

Snowy Egret Egret

Common Eider Eider

King Eider Eider

Peregrine Falcon Falcon

Prairie Falcon Falcon

Fieldfare Fieldfare

Cassin's Finch Finch

Gray-crowned Rosy Finch Finch

House Finch Finch

Purple Finch Finch

Northern Flicker Flicker

Alder Flycatcher Flycatcher

Ash-throated Flycatcher Flycatcher

Dusky Flycatcher Flycatcher

Hammond's Flycatcher Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher Flycatcher

Olive-sided Flycatcher Flycatcher

Pacific-slope Flycatcher Flycatcher

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher Flycatcher

Magnificent Frigatebird Frigatebird

Northern Fulmar Fulmar

Gadwall Duck Gadwall

Common Gallinule Gallinule

Garganey Duck Garganey

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Gnatcatcher

Bar-tailed Godwit Godwit

Hudsonian Godwit Godwit

Marbled Godwit Godwit

Barrow's Goldeneye Goldeneye

Common Goldeneye Goldeneye

American Golden-Plover Golden-Plover

Pacific Golden-Plover Golden-Plover

American Goldfinch Goldfinch

Lesser Goldfinch Goldfinch

Cackling Goose Goose

Canada Goose Goose

Emperor Goose Goose

Greater White-fronted Goose Goose


Ross' Goose Goose

Snow Goose Goose

Northern Goshawk Goshawk

Common Grackle Grackle

Clark's Grebe Grebe

Eared Grebe Grebe

Horned Grebe Grebe

Pied-billed Grebe Grebe

Red-necked Grebe Grebe

Western Grebe Grebe

Black-headed Grosbeak Grosbeak

Evening Grosbeak Grosbeak

Pine Grosbeak Grosbeak

Rose-breasted Grosbeak Grosbeak

Ruffed Grouse Grouse

Sooty Grouse Grouse

Pigeon Guillemot Guillemot

Black-headed Gull Gull

Bonaparte's Gull Gull

California Gull Gull

Franklin's Gull Gull

Glaucous Gull Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull Gull

Heermann's Gull Gull

Herring Gull Gull

Iceland Gull Gull

Ivory Gull Gull

Laughing Gull Gull

Little Gull Gull

Mew Gull Gull

Ring-billed Gull Gull

Sabine's Gull Gull

Slaty-backed Gull Gull

Thayer's Gull Gull

Western Gull Gull

Gyrfalcon Gyrfalcon

Northern Harrier Harrier

Broad-winged Hawk Hawk

Cooper's Hawk Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawk Hawk

Swainson's Hawk Hawk

Northern Hawk-Owl Hawk-Owl

Great Blue Heron Heron

Green Heron Heron

Anna's Hummingbird Hummingbird

Black-chinned Hummingbird Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird Hummingbird

Costa's Hummingbird Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird Hummingbird

Rufous Hummingbird Hummingbird

Long-tailed Jaeger Jaeger

Parasitic Jaeger Jaeger

Pomarine Jaeger Jaeger

Blue Jay Jay

Gray Jay Jay

Steller's Jay Jay

Dark-eyed Junco Junco

American Kestrel Kestrel

Killdeer Killdeer

Eastern Kingbird Kingbird

Tropical Kingbird Kingbird

Western Kingbird Kingbird

Belted Kingfisher Kingfisher

Golden-crowned Kinglet Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet Kinglet

White-tailed Kite Kite

Black-legged Kittiwake Kittiwake

Great Knot Knot

Red Knot Knot

Horned Lark Lark

Sky Lark Lark

Chestnut-collared Longspur Longspur

Lapland Longspur Longspur

McCown's Longspur Longspur

Smith's Longspur Longspur

Common Loon Loon

Pacific Loon Loon

Red-throated Loon Loon

Yellow-billed Loon Loon

Black-billed Magpie Magpie

Mallard Duck Mallard

Purple Martin Martin

Western Meadowlark Meadowlark

Common Merganser Merganser


Hooded Merganser Merganser

Red-breasted Merganser Merganser

Merlin Merlin

Northern Mockingbird Mockingbird

Common Murre Murre

Ancient Murrelet Murrelet

Marbled Murrelet Murrelet

Crested Myna Myna

Common Nighthawk Nighthawk

Lesser Nighthawk Nighthawk

Black-crowned Night-Heron Night-Heron

Clark's Nutcracker Nutcracker

Pygmy Nuthatch Nuthatch

Red-breasted Nuthatch Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch Nuthatch

Baltimore Oriole Oriole

Bullock's Oriole Oriole

Hooded Oriole Oriole

Osprey Osprey

Ovenbird Ovenbird

Barn Owl Owl

Barred Owl Owl

Boreal Owl Owl

Burrowing Owl Owl

Flammulated Owl Owl

Great Gray Owl Owl

Great Horned Owl Owl

Long-eared Owl Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl Owl

Short-eared Owl Owl

Snowy Owl Owl

Spotted Owl Owl

Black Oystercatcher Oystercatcher

Gray Partridge Partridge

Northern Parula Parula

American White Pelican Pelican

Brown Pelican Pelican

Red Phalarope Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope Phalarope

Wilson's Phalarope Phalarope

Ring-necked Pheasant Pheasant

Black Phoebe Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe Phoebe

Say's Phoebe Phoebe

Band-tailed Pigeon Pigeon

Rock Pigeon Pigeon

Northern Pintail Pintail

American Pipit Pipit

Red-throated Pipit Pipit

Black-bellied Plover Plover

Mountain Plover Plover

Semipalmated Plover Plover

Snowy Plover Plover

Common Poorwill Poorwill

Rock Ptarmigan Ptarmigan

White-tailed Ptarmigan Ptarmigan

Tufted Puffin Puffin

Northern Pygmy-Owl Pygmy-Owl

California Quail Quail

Virginia Rail Rail

Yellow Rail Rail

Common Raven Raven

Redhead Redhead

Common Redpoll Redpoll

Hoary Redpoll Redpoll

Spotted Redshank Redshank

American Redstart Redstart

Painted Redstart Redstart

American Robin Robin

Ruff Ruff

Sanderling Sanderling

Baird's Sandpiper Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper Sandpiper

Curlew Sandpiper Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper Sandpiper

Rock Sandpiper Sandpiper

Semipalmated Sandpiper Sandpiper

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper Sandpiper

Spoonbill Sandpiper Sandpiper

Spotted Sandpiper Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper Sandpiper

Upland Sandpiper Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper Sandpiper


Wood Sandpiper Sandpiper

Lesser Sand-Plover Sand-Plover

Red-breasted Sapsucker Sapsucker

Red-naped Sapsucker Sapsucker

Williamson's Sapsucker Sapsucker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Sapsucker

Greater Scaup Scaup

Lesser Scaup Scaup

Black Scoter Scoter

Surf Scoter Scoter

White-winged Scoter Scoter

Western Screech-Owl Screech-Owl

Western Scrub-Jay Scrub-Jay

Black-vented Shearwater Shearwater

Short-tailed Shearwater Shearwater

Sooty Shearwater Shearwater

Northern Shoveler Shoveler

Loggerhead Shrike Shrike

Northern Shrike Shrike

Pine Siskin Siskin

South Polar Skua Skua

Smew Smew

Wilson's Snipe Snipe

Townsend's Solitaire Solitaire

Sora Rail Sora

American Tree Sparrow Sparrow

Baird's Sparrow Sparrow

Black-throated Sparrow Sparrow

Brewer's Sparrow Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow Sparrow

Fox Sparrow Sparrow

Golden-crowned Sparrow Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow Sparrow

Harris' Sparrow Sparrow

House Sparrow Sparrow

Lark Sparrow Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow Sparrow

Nelson's Sparrow Sparrow

Sagebrush Sparrow Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow Sparrow

Song Sparrow Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow Sparrow

European Starling Starling

Black-necked Stilt Stilt

Little Stint Stint

Red-necked Stint Stint

Temminck's Stint Stint

Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Storm-Petrel

Leach's Storm-Petrel Storm-Petrel

Surfbird Surfbird

Bank Swallow Swallow

Barn Swallow Swallow

Cave Swallow Swallow

Cliff Swallow Swallow

Northern Rough-winged

Swallow

Swallow

Tree Swallow Swallow

Violet-green Swallow Swallow

Mute Swan Swan

Trumpeter Swan Swan

Tundra Swan Swan

Black Swift Swift

Vaux's Swift Swift

White-throated Swift Swift

Western Tanager Tanager

Wandering Tattler Tattler

Baikal Teal Teal

Blue-winged Teal Teal

Cinnamon Teal Teal

Green-winged Teal Teal

Arctic Tern Tern

Black Tern Tern

Caspian Tern Tern

Common Tern Tern

Elegant Tern Tern

Forster's Tern Tern

Brown Thrasher Thrasher

Sage Thrasher Thrasher

Dusky Thrush Thrush

Hermit Thrush Thrush

Swainson's Thrush Thrush

Varied Thrush Thrush


Green-tailed Towhee Towhee

Spotted Towhee Towhee

Black Turnstone Turnstone

Ruddy Turnstone Turnstone

Veery Veery

Cassin's Vireo Vireo

Hutton's Vireo Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo Vireo

Warbling Vireo Vireo

Turkey Vulture Vulture

Eastern Yellow Wagtail Wagtail

White Wagtail Wagtail

Black-and-white Warbler Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler Warbler

Black-throated Gray Warbler Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler Warbler

Canada Warbler Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler Warbler

Golden-winged Warbler Warbler

Hermit Warbler Warbler

Hooded Warbler Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler Warbler

Magnolia Warbler Warbler

Nashville Warbler Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler Warbler

Palm Warbler Warbler

Prothonotary Warbler Warbler

Tennessee Warbler Warbler

Townsend's Warbler Warbler

Virginia's Warbler Warbler

Wilson's Warbler Warbler

Yellow Warbler Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler Warbler

Northern Waterthrush Waterthrush

Bohemian Waxwing Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing Waxwing

Northern Wheatear Wheatear

Whimbrel Whimbrel

American Wigeon Wigeon

Eurasian Wigeon Wigeon

Willet Willet

Acorn Woodpecker Woodpecker

American Three-toed

Woodpecker

Woodpecker

Black-backed Woodpecker Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker Woodpecker

Lewis' Woodpecker Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker Woodpecker

Western Wood-Pewee Wood-Pewee

Bewick's Wren Wren

House Wren Wren

Marsh Wren Wren

Pacific Wren Wren

Rock Wren Wren

Sedge Wren Wren

Greater Yellowlegs Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs Yellowlegs

Common Yellowthroat Yellowthroat


Appendix 3: Priority features and how they are supported within Flickr

1. Single URL that unknown users without IDs can use to get to all our Albums of pictures

Flickr: yes

2. Albums can be ordered (automatically?) with most recent first

Flickr: Albums are only on individual sites, not Groups and there are various ways to arrange

them

3. Albums contain the following information: geo location, description, date, photog name

Flickr: yes

4. Pictures contain the following information: geo location, caption/name of the bird, date, photog

name, at reasonably high resolution

Flickr: yes

5. Easy to upload photos to the site and into an Album from the photogs computer, preferably

with some bulk processing tools to set information onto the pictures

Flickr: yes

6. Low or zero cost for the DNS

Flickr: yes, might be cost if we want to avoid some Ads on our photo collections

7. Room to hold enough pictures for the foreseeable future. In Picasa we had 314 folders with

about 30 pictures in each folder and each picture was an average of 600 kb, so that’s almost

10,000 pictures or 6000 Mb and leaving room for the future we’d want 10 times that = 60 Gb

Flickr: 1 Tb. If each picture was 3 Gb that is over 300,000 pictures. Current Picasa site has about

10,000 pictures so that is 30 times more.

8. Easy to find a picture if you just remember the name of the bird or the approximate date, etc

Flickr: has extensive search capability BUT the search can only be effective if we have some

discipline about how we name and tag the pictures

9. A solution that is very good for going forward and HOPEFULLY one to which we can easily add

our old Picasa and Google Photos Albums.

Flickr: going forward is good. Still remains to be seen if we can extract what we have in Picasa

and Google Photos and manage to upload that to Flickr. We’ll work on that, but not a sure thing.

10. Ability for photogs to maintain copyright of their pictures even when presenting them publicly.

Flickr: yes

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