Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Neotropical Birds site; more prestigious than the BBC?

Let Alan have his Multiple BBC publishing fame (http://www.fouragesofsand.com/2011/11/100-congratulations-to-alans-success-.html) I've been published on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Neotropical bird's site!

I got this email from the Managing Editor of Neotropical Birds:

I am the managing editor of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Neotropical Birds site (http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu ). I am writing to you because I found your photos when looking for sources of Diglossa gloriosa images, and found wonderful species identification images of species images on your website that could be of enormous use for our resource.

I wanted to contact you about the possibility of contributing photographs from your personal website to our resource about neotropical birds: http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a nonprofit, member-supported organization with limited media resources. By sharing your photographs in NB, you are helping us in our mission to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity. The Neotropical Birds site is a newly launched project that is a work-in-progress, and one heavily invested in the use of research, observations, and resources from citizen scientists. There are over 4500 species of birds in the Neotropics, and we are relying heavily on the graces of potential contributors such as yourself to help advance our mission of education, outreach and conservation of avian life in the Neotropics.

We are unable to give financial renumeration for images at this time, but I would be more than happy to provide you with a credit and a link back to either a website or your flickr photostream, whichever you prefer.


We appreciate your prompt reply, and a sincere thank you in advance for considering my request.

Kind regards,

The bird is the very special Venezuelan endemic, the Merida Flowerpiercer:

found only in one small area of the country:

 

And here's the result:

http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=635596 

 

Comments

[Alan]

Get you! And I admit, the BBC didn't actualy solicit my input.