We discovered that those photos where taking up a great deal of our bandwidth. And we have to move the servers soon to a new cohosting facility. Not only that the results where hit and miss, since it involves using Google's search feature. Often the photos are plain wrong. And there is another issue. Try searching for Redhead Female or Woodpecker in Google and you will see what I mean. And that meant lots of checking and pruning and it was a lot of work. And the database has grown huge, with the photos contributing a great deal of that.
All these factors made us decide that the issues outweighed any benefits. We are discussing serveral alternatives, such as creating a new database of photos that is bound to the species page but does not load at the same time, to using some of the great photos of our members (like yours which are outstanding) to creating a special whatbird photo gallery in the forum and setting it up so all the bird names are there and people can contribute to it. In all cases we would seek photos we like and approve of instead of leaving to chance.
I'm sorry about this change and wish I had a better solution.
BTW We also made another bird change in the way the species pages load. Before all the information in all the tabs loaded the first time you opened the page. Which meant a lot of data and a longer wait time. Now just the first tab loads, and when you click on another tab it loads. This makes the delay between tabs a littler longer but it has cut our bandwidth consumption by 50%. You might have noticed the URL for the bird pages has changed when you click on a tab, its now got the tab name in it.
iBird Explorer: Finally a field guide as light as a feather. See it at http://www.ibird.com
