I've had CanStock reject a photo of a duck for the same reason. Either their Submission analysis is automated and broken, or done by disenfranchised staff in a bad mood (or trying to be funny, not quite sure which)
My first from iStock (just starting out in this "game"), so I suppose it counts as my BME . Was quite shocked to see that for one image I got a payment of just 3 cents !!
I knew margins were tight, but wasn't expecting it THAT tight !
I think they're rejecting almost out of hand at the moment. I've just had a photo of a mallard (a species of duck, in case you don't know) rejected because I don't have a model release for the image.....I tried to get the duck to sign a release, but it just quacked and swam off.
Then I've had another in the same batch - a swan swimming on a lake in sunset, which was rejected because there was a logo or other copyright material. There is nothing man made at all in the photo - so unless the Queen has now copyrighted all swans (and even then it wouldn't apply as I didn't photograph this one in the UK)....
Some of their rejections are possibly justified (even though I don't upload anything on CanStock that hasn't been accepted by at least 2 other sites), but some are just plain silly !!
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. Was quite shocked to see that for one image I got a payment of just 3 cents !! 
