I am currently working on a project to create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that works as a set of electronic flash cards. The presentation will be used by my son and his fellow students in his ornithology class at UW-Stevens Point to learn to identify a list of 255 species of birds by common and scientific name. I have been able to build a presentation that can reshuffle the slides before each showing. When it is played, each slide first shows a picture of a bird and then, with subsequent mouse clicks, adds the common name, order, family, sub-family, and then the genus/species.
At this point, thanks to the generous help of some of the great photographers on the WisBirdNet, I have approval to use pictures of about 245 species of birds. If anyone has a digital picture (JPEG Format) of birds in breeding plumage of the following species that I could use to complete the project, I would really appreciate it: Arctic Loon Red-throated Loon King Eider Long-tailed Duck (or winter plumage) Hudsonian Godwit Long-billed Curlew Red Knot Yellow-billed Cuckoo Olive-sided Flycatcher Purple Martin Canada Warbler Lapland Longspur When it is completed, I would like to be able to give the Powerpoint presentation to my son's professor so that it can be used by future students that take Ornithology at UW-SP. The terms of that gift will be that the presentation is only to be used as a learning aid and that it will not be sold or used for public presentation that is not part of a class. The names of contributing photographers will be listed on the first slide of the presentation along with a copyright reminder regarding the use of the photos that are included. The students are only required to learn how to identify males in breeding plumage for each species on the list. I am looking for pictures that show the whole bird and include the key field marks needed for positive identification of that species. I have found that picture files in JPG format that are 480x600 to 600x800 pixels (75 - 300 k bytes) work best although files that are slightly smaller are okay. Files of that size are big enough to hold detail and small enough to not make the presentation so immense that it is unusable. If your file is bigger, that is not a problem, I can shrink it. Thank you very much to anyone who is willing to help me with any of these photos!! I (and my son) really appreciate the help!! Dan Jackson Chaseburg, Vernon County, Wisconsin (Near LaCrosse) http://community.webshots.com/user/DanielEJackson ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
