Audubon Drawings by Megan Greene

About the project:

In her recent series, Megan Greene subverts and recontextualizes traditional Audubon bird prints, having long incorporated naturalist studies and images of flora and fauna in her work. In these intricate hybridizations she explores shifts between the found vs. altered, drawn vs. photographic, representational vs. abstract, and the beautiful vs. the grotesque. Her transformations dissolve, evolve and re-conceive the original hijacked images to become something known yet fully new.

Feather sculptures from the series Lure by Kate MccGwire

About the project:

The title Lure is a dual reference to the ring of feathers used by a falconer to call and command their birds, and to the siren-like call of the work itself. It evokes the combination of our fascination with the iridescent, exotic specimens on display and the desire to look closer in spite of the disquieting atmosphere they create. MccGwire’s work uses the language of nature’s forms to construct impossible creatures, pitting the beauty of a bird in flight against our instinctive revulsion to these unnatural forms in close proximity. Their feathers are both alluring and abject, and appeal to our subjective experience as we confront the breathless, convoluted structures. Her sculptures exist in the periphery between the living and the dead, challenging our perceptions of the authentic and the imaginary.

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Wonderful owl photography by Sasi - smit.

Photographer Detlef Knapp captures birds just above the water’s suface.

The Romance of Flight by Cally Witham

Diving swans captured by Viktor Lyagushkin 

Cut Feather Shadowboxes by Chris Maynard

Flight by Anne McGrath is the “graceful movement of birds in flight captured by slow panning techniques”.

Images from the book Birds of Paradise: Revealing the World’s Most Extraordinary Birds, a collaboration between photographer Tim Laman and ornithologist Edwin Scholes.

About the book:

Eight years. Eighteen expeditions. Fifty-one field sites. Thirty-nine unique species of birds-of-paradise, all photographed in the wild for the first time in history.

“We turned our passion for science, photography, and media documentation into a comprehensive vision to share an unparalleled treasure of Earth’s biodiversity with the world,” write biologists and explorers Tim Laman and Edwin Scholes.

Selections from The Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds by Luke Stephenson

Stephenson on his project:

It all started very innocently I suppose, but then it gradually turned into an obsession…An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds began with a very simple idea, that I wanted to photograph budgies. I met a great deal of people (mostly men) who were very knowledgeable about their hobby and only too happy to share it with me. Their enthusiasm became infectious so that by simply photographing a species I felt I was adding it to my collection.

Turkey by Cally Whitham

Happy Thanksgiving!

Beautiful bird photography by Teuni Stevense

The Happy City Birds project was started by Thomas Winther to kill two birds with one stone solve two major urban problems: dwindling habitats for birds and an abundance of trash. He began building birdhouses out of recycled materials and placing them in cities around Denmark. He has since spread his project worldwide by offering his birdhouses to bird lovers everywhere.

Nature inspired pieces from Alexander McQueen

Behold, the most colorful duck in the world: Mandarin Duck