A bird on the screen is worth two in the bush


					Tweets of an ornithological variety


« Back		Our feathered friends are lovely things, unless you're Tippi Hedren in The Birds. We present a selection. Click on any image to order a high-res scan!



2-Z12-P1-1577 A parrot on a plum-tree branch by Jacopo Ligozzi, between 1577 and 1591 akg-images / Orsi Battaglini		2-R41-C15-1270-1-2 Detail from a 13th-century stained glass window of Noah's hand with the dove akg-images / Erich Lessing






2-G76-J1-3-1 An 18th Dynasty hunting scene showing the Egyptian Nakht hunting water fowl akg-images / Erich Lessing		1FK-1090-I1922 A poster for Mistinguett at the Casino de Paris, circa 1922 akg-images






2-K40-S3-1742-3 Jean Baptiste Oudry, Still life with hare and wild duck, circa 1750 akg-images / Erich Lessing		2-K21-G1-1540-3 Detail of a parrot from a ceiling painting by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio in the Camera verde of the Palazzo Vecchio, 1540/42 akg-images / Rabatti - Dominigie






2-L13-A2-1920-1 Felix Vallotton's Seagulls, 1920 akg-images		2-C15-A1-1582-6 Illustration from the Splendor Solis, 1582 akg-images / British Library






2-G10-A1-1916-1 Gustav Klimt, Garden Path with Chickens, 1916 akg-images / Erich Lessing		7-MON-24405 Painting of a falcon in the Augustburg Castle in Brühl akg-images / Bildarchiv Monheim






2-Z12-A1-1837 A magpie, jays and a crow in an 1837 aquatint by Robert Havell the Younger akg-images		2-Z12-A1-50-1 A 1st-century mural of a bird with daisies, found in Herculaneum akg-images / Erich Lessing






2-V40-J2-1857-26 Hiroshige's Minowa, Kanasugi and Mikawashima, 1856-8 akg-images		2-R43-F1-1295-160 St Francis preaches to the birds, in Giotto's fresco from Assisi akg-images / Stefan Diller






1IT-2124-A1545-B Bronzino's 1545 portrait of Giovanni de' Medici akg-images / Erich Lessing		2-G60-A4-1918-2 John Willian Godward, Song without Words, 1918 © Sotheby's / akg-images






2-G61-G1-24 An attic bowl showing a running hoplite, circa 510 BC akg-images / Erich Lessing		2-J11-V1-1455-7 Using decoys to catch birds, from the 15th-century Livre du roy Modus akg-images






2-M150-A1-1907-1 Broncia Koller Pinell's 1907/08 painting of Silvia Koller with a birdcage akg-images / Erich Lessing		2-M145-A1-1914 August Macke, Woman and parrot in a landscape, 1914 akg-images






2-L13-W1-1868-1-B Claude Monet, The Magpie, Winter 1868/69 akg-images / Laurent Lecat		2-L13-A1-1885-21 Olga Wisinger-Florian, May, circa 1885 akg-images / Erich Lessing