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The Art and Science of Birds

The Smithsonian celebrates beautiful birds in our museums, our research centers, our gardens, and in coffee shops. We hold, care for, and share artistic and scientific observations compiled over centuries so we can help them thrive. We envy the flight of feathered creatures, wonder how they’re connected to dinosaurs, and how they’re doing now.

Want to know more? Check out the Migratory Bird Center at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and the Encyclopedia of Life.


Cliff Swallows

Great White Heron

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Yellow-Breasted Chat

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Horned Grebe

Design for a Cover of The New Yorker or Promenade Magazine

Goliath Heron

Heron

A Gray heron

Untitled (Oriole)

Sparrows

Hawk And Sparrow

Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Sparrow Hawk

Sparrow Hawk

Standing hawk

Hawk IV, from the series Acoma

Ring-Neck Attacked by a Hawk

Hawk on a snow-covered pine branch

Stamp seal

Standing hawk (Horus)

Dish with design of white hawk

41c Pollination: Hummingbird Trumpet and Calliope Hummingbird single

Hummingbird, Panama, STRI

Stunning Slo-Mo Footage of Hummingbirds Hovering in Air

Blue Jays in Winter, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Blue Jay

Stamp with painting of the profile of a blue bird with black stripes and white breast facing left

20c Blue Jay single

22c Blue Jay single

Birds of Prey/Scratching Birds or Gallinaceous Birds

Young Bluejay

American Goldfinches

Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative: Roxy Laybourne


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