Bird Art
See Also: Animals
Beautiful Birds
Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection including wood engravings, hand colored lithographs and chromolithographs, and metal engravings and etchings.
Birds!
Selected images and information from the Birds! exhibition, National Library of Australia.
Birds, Bees and Blooms
A selection of images from natural history books in the Glasgow University Library Special Collections.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Birds
View around 148 images of works of art related to birds in the subject index of the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. See also: Birds of the Andes
The Brilliance of Bird-and-Flower Painting: Gems of Asian Art
An online tour of bird and flower paintings from the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
MFA Images: Birds & Bird Illustrations
An online collection of birds in art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Animals: Birds
View around 300 images in the WorldImages database from the California State University IMAGE Project.
The Getty: Birds
View an online collection of over 330 objects related to birds in the Getty Museum.
National Galleries of Scotland: Birds
A small collection of objects including paintings by John Duncan, Salvador Dali, and others.
Brooklyn Museum: Birds
View a selection of objects in the online collections of the Brooklyn Museum.
The Birds of America
An online tour of selections from John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1826-1838) presented by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Never Mind the Pussy Cat: The Ornithological Art of Edward Lear
Information about his life and work with a small selection of images, an online exhibition at the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University.
The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear
Includes images of Lear's parrots, plus a variety of other birds and mammals in the digital collections of The Ewell Sale Stewart Library at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio
The Nelson E. Jones Family's Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, a Smithsonian Institution Libraries online exhibition.
Ornithologie
Eighteenth century bird illustrations by Francois Nicolas Martinet, an online exhibition in the Smithsonian Digital Library.
NYPL: Birds in Art
View around 143 images of birds in art in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Birds and Beasts
A section of an online exhibition illustrating Cuba's flora and fauna from the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
The MacGillivray Art Collection: Birds
View around 123 images online from William MacGillivray's gallery of watercolor paintings, an exhibition from the Natural History Museum, London.
The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1804 - 1881)
View around 366 illustrations online by John Gould, from the Natural History Museum, London.
Fuertes Illustrations Collection
An online database of around 2,500 bird illustrations by noted ornithological painter, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, a Cornell University Library presentation.
Mark Catesby's Natural History
An online version of Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first volume focuses on birds and the second on fish, reptiles, insects, and plants.
USNM Bird Collection
The Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, houses and maintains the third largest bird collection in the world with over 600,000 specimens.
Wing Image Collection
The Slater Museum of Natural History provides a searchable database of bird wing photographs.
