Oriental Bird Images (OBI) is a collection of images of birds of the oriental region that are collated into a database called The Image Database of the Oriental Bird Club. The database is an initiative of the Oriental Bird Club (OBC) that was begun in mid-2002. The effort is to build as complete a website database as possible of photographs of bird species found in the Oriental Region. All images in the Database have been provided by the photographers free-of-charge in furtherance of the aims of the OBC. The photographers retain the copyright to their images. As of November 2012 there are more than 60,000 images of over 2800 species covering about 98% of the species in the Region. This is proving to be a useful reference tool for ornithologists and birders. 1280 photographers have contributed to the database. (Source: OBI website).
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