Preparing and uploading media

Uploading media
When you add your photos and recordings directly to your eBird checklists they become part of the Macaulay Library—a multimedia wildlife archive that provid...
Wed, 3 May, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Photo upload guidelines
The Macaulay Library and eBird allow you to upload photos (and audio) directly to your eBird checklists, thereby archiving them in the Macaulay Library. Whe...
Wed, 3 May, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Audio preparation and upload guidelines
Audio contributed to eBird and the Macaulay Library should be an accurate copy of an original field recording. This means doing a minimal amount of editing ...
Wed, 3 May, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Video upload guidelines
The Internet Bird Collection’s collaboration with the Cornell Lab has added videos for thousands of species, now archived in the Macaulay Library. eBird a...
Wed, 17 Jan, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Cornell Media Licensing Agreement
When you first upload media to an eBird checklist using the Manage Media tool, you will be prompted to accept the license agreement below. The agreement ...
Tue, 31 May, 2022 at 4:49 PM
Uploading historic media
Do you have sound recordings or photos that you would like to upload to the Macaulay Library, but you don’t have an eBird checklist or complete field note...
Mon, 6 Apr, 2020 at 2:32 PM