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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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“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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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