Kerry,

June made some good points about asking permission before using material from the Internet (whether for lectures or for publication).  I would reiterate that point vigorously.  If you want to contact contributors of photo material to MDOsprey, get in touch with MOS Webmaster Fran Saunders at 

If, however, you want to consider purchasing slides for your lectures, you may wish to consider the following two sources of excellent slides at very reasonable prices (when compared to the cost of equipping yourself to take your own pics, especially):

Academy of Natural Sciences "Visual Resources for Ornithology":
http://vireo.acnatsci.org//

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Visual Department:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/Shop/VisualServices.html

Best,
Norm

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Norm Saunders
West Ocean City & Colesville, MD



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> Hi there, 
> 
> Anyone know how I can go about obtaining pictures, or slides, or birds? 
> Copying them from the web into powerpoint is illegal, right? 
> 
> Kerry Stone 
> Takoma Park, MD 
>