# Tarsier - a tool for finding reusable images of taxa **URL:** \ **Category:** Wikis\ **Created:** [June 18, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/t/tarsier-a-tool-for-finding-reusable-images-of-taxa/149 "2026-06-18T18:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ambrosia10](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex033/user_avatar/forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/ambrosia10/32/18_2.png) [@Ambrosia10](https://forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/u/Ambrosia10)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.biodiversitylibrary.org/t/tarsier-a-tool-for-finding-reusable-images-of-taxa/149/1 "2026-06-18T18:32:24Z")
> **[Tarsier — find reusable images of taxa](https://andrawaag.github.io/tarsier/)** > > Tarsier finds openly-licensed, reusable images of any taxon across GBIF and the taxonomic literature, searchable by scientific or common name, and helps reuse them — including direct upload to Wikimedia Commons. Andra Waagmeeter has been improving his Tarsier tool. Tarsier finds images of organisms that carry an open license (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA) you can reuse — from [GBIF](https://gbif.org/) occurrences and from the taxonomic literature ([Plazi](https://plazi.org/) figures via the Biodiversity Literature Repository on Zenodo). It judges each image on its own license, flags whether a copy is already on [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/), and where the license is compatible links straight to a pre-filled Commons upload (a Wikimedia account is required). Search by scientific name, or by a common name — common names are resolved to a taxon via [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/). Warning: Currently this link in my chrome browser displays a bright red warning about an unsafe link. Andra has said this warning is there as he needs to request a review as he was hosting multiple platforms under that main domain. He’s going to sort it in the near future.