OMB Control No. 1018-0172 Expiration Date 12/31/2021 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 2021 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest Information, Entry Form and Regulations Dear Artist: Please read all of the enclosed information very carefully and follow the instructions. If you do not follow the instructions completely, your entry may be disqualified from the contest. All entries must be postmarked by midnight on August 15, 2021. No 2020 Federal Duck Stamp Contest Winner entries can be accepted prior Artist: Richard Clifton to June 1. Species: Lesser Scaup Please submit your entry to: Federal Duck Stamp Contest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Duck Stamp Office MS:MB 5275 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, VA 22041 Summary of Key Points Who can enter the Federal Duck When do I send in my entry? What does the winning artist receive? Stamp Contest? Entries are accepted beginning June 1 of The artist will receive publicity and media All U.S. citizens, nationals or resident aliens each year and must be postmarked no later recognition. He/she will also travel and be are eligible to participate. However, all than midnight on August 15. There are no recognized as guest speaker at several entrants must be at least 18 years of age by exceptions made for holidays and prestigious national waterfowl festivals and June 1. Contest judges and their relatives, weekends. Entries are cataloged and wildlife art events. The artist receives a pane and employees of the Federal Duck Stamp assigned numbers based on date of receipt of his or her Duck Stamps signed by the Office are ineligible to submit entries. in the Federal Duck Stamp Office. Entries Secretary of the Interior. Finally, the winner will be returned after the contest in can choose to market the winning image Why do you have a contest? packaging determined by the Federal Duck and any other works as “by the Federal Duck The Federal Duck Stamp Contest is Stamp Office. No packaging materials will Stamp artist.” (Note: Any publishing mandated by law and carried out by the U.S. be returned. contract that might be offered to the Fish and Wildlife Service. It offers this winning artist is between the artist and country’s wildlife artists the opportunity to Where do I send my entry? publisher. The Federal Government does have their designs considered to grace the All entries must be sent to the address listed not guarantee any contract will be offered. Federal Duck Stamp. Winning the Federal below: The Government assumes no liability, Duck Stamp Contest not only lends prestige responsibility, nor claims any interest in to the chosen artist, but also can serve as a Federal Duck Stamp Contest resulting publishing contracts.) catalyst in building a successful career in U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service MS:MB wildlife art. 5275 Leesburg Pike Why is this important and why should Falls Church, VA 22041 I enter? What can I send to the contest? The Federal Duck Stamp Program raises A Federal Duck Stamp Contest art entry How do I prepare my entry? approximately $40 million each year to help consists of a two-dimensional design. The Each artist should have a working protect vital wetland habitat in our National regulations for the contest do not specify knowledge in three major areas of special Wildlife Refuge System. Since 1934, the sale a medium. interest to Federal Duck Stamp Contest of Federal Duck Stamps has raised over judges: $1.1 billion to help purchase over 6 million Judges are instructed to look for scenes acres of wetlands, land that everyone can depicting live birds in their natural habitat. • Basic Waterfowl Biology—for example, if enjoy for generations to come. Enter the Beginning in 2020 judges will also be you choose to depict a spring scene, contest and you may become a part of this instructed to choose an entry that best is the bird’s plumage correct for that season? legacy. Each entry exemplifies art for illustrates the theme "celebrating our conservation’s sake. waterfowl hunting heritage." It will be • Artistic Composition—is the image mandatory for your image to include one artistically interesting and does it “pop” or more appropriate hunting-related accessories and/or scenes to reflect this. when you look at it? This could include decoys, dogs, hunting Design Checklist blinds or other hunting images. One of the • Suitability for Printing at a Reduced Size five eligible species must be the dominant —the image provides the design for a 1.75” Have you included one or more feature in the design and must be L x 1.5” W stamp. Considering the amount of the 2021 eligible species? Is it portrayed as alive. This means it must be of detail you wish to include, do you think it noticeably larger than any other element will show well in this reduced size? portrayed alive and is it the you wish to include. dominant part of your entry? Additionally your image must portray the Judges will also be looking for images that theme "celebrating our waterfowl hunting will reproduce well as a stamp. heritage" and contain a waterfowl hunting Have you included an accessory or waterfowl hunting scene. Each entry must be accompanied by the appropriate hunting-related Display, Participation & Reproduction Judges are looking for positive messages to Rights Agreement (see page 7) and an entry help celebrate waterfowl hunters' accessory or scene that fee of $125. The fee must be a certified contributions to conservation. check, cashier’s check, or money order illustrates the theme made payable to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. No personal checks or cash will be "celebrating our waterfowl accepted. If you send a personal check or hunting heritage"? cash your entry will be disqualified. What are the 2021 eligible Entries must be uniform in size. Each entry Is your entry free of all writing must be 7” x 10” and matted over with species? bright white matting. The matting must be on its face? This includes • Greater White-fronted Goose 1” wide. Total size (entry with matting) must numbers on bird bands, words be 9” x 12”. (See the diagram on page 5.) We • Ross's Goose recommend you use a 1/8” masonite board • Blue-winged Teal on signs, and signatures!!! No or foamcore with 1⁄8” matting to equal the • writing is allowed on the front total width of 1/4” thick. Any entry Redhead exceeding 1/4” thick will be disqualified. • King Eider of your entry. 2 Federal Duck Stamp Contest Regulations Contest Qualifying entry—each original work of (h) Mergansers. art submitted to the contest that satisfies the (1) Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes requirements outlined in Subpart B. cucullatus) Regulations Reproduction rights agreement—a (2) Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) document that each contestant must sign and (3) Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus ParT 91—MIgraTORY BIRD HUNTING AND submit with the entry. The signed agree ment serrator) CONSERVATION STAMP CONTEST certifies that the entry is an original work of (i) Stiff Tails. Subpart a—Introduction art and stipulates how the Fish and Wildlife Sec. Service may use the winning entry. (1) Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis ) 91.1 Purpose of regulations. §91.3 Public attendance at contest. 91.2 Definitions. SUBParT B—ProCeDUreS For enTerIng All phases of the voting process will be open 91.3 Public attendance at contest. THE CONTEST for viewing by the general public. 91.4 Eligible species. §91.11 Contest opening date and entry deadline. §91.4 Eligible species. The contest officially opens on June 1 of each year. Subpart B—Procedures for entering the Contest Entries must be postmarked no later than midnight, 91.11 Contest deadlines. Five or fewer of the species listed below will August 15. 91.12 Contest eligibility. be identified as eligible each year, those eligible species will be provided to each con- 91.13 Technical requirements for design and §91.12 Contest eligibility. submission of entry. testant with the information provided in §91.1. U nited States citizens, nationals, or resident aliens are 91.14 Restrictions on subject matter of entry. (a) Whistling-Ducks. eligible to participate in the contest. Any person who 91.16 Submission procedures for entry. (1) Fulvous Whistling-Duck has won the federal contest during the preceding 91.17 Property insurance for entries. (Dendrocygna bicolor) 91.18 Failure to comply with contest three years will not be eligible to submit an entry in (2) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck the current year’s contest. All entrants must be 18 regulations. (Dendrocygna autumnalis) years of age as of June 1 to participate in the Federal Subpart C—Procedures for administering the (b) Geese. Duck Stamp Contest. Contest judges and their Contest (1) Emperor Goose (Anser canagica) relatives are ineligible to submit an entry. All entrants (2) Snow Goose (including "white" and "blue" 91.21 Selection and qualification of contest must submit a non-refundable fee of $125.00 by a morphs) (Anser caerulescens) judges. cashier's check, certified check, or money order 91.22 Display of entries for contest. (3) Ross’s Goose (Anser rossii) made payable to: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 91.23 Scoring criteria for contest. (4) Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser (Personal checks will not be accepted.) All entrants 91.24 Contest procedures. albifrons) must submit signed Reproduction Rights and (5) Brant (Branta bernicla) Subpart D—Post-Contest Procedures (6) Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) Display and Participation Agreements. 91.31 Return of entries after contest. (7) Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) §91.13 Technical requirements for design and Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 718j; (c) Swans.