Free to Use and Reuse: Birds

Birds capture people's attention and imagination around the world. Please use this selection of rights-free images to explore a variety of our feathered friends across time periods, communities, and places. Browse more content that is free to use and reuse

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  Bird watcher, Central Park. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1970-1980. Prints & Photographs Division

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  The Humming-Bird ... ; the Cuckow. In: Cock Robin's Death and Funeral, 1780. Rare Book Division

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  Summer red bird. Tanager. Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Elephant folio, 1827-1838. Rare Book Division

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  Minowa kanasugi mikawashima. (Red-crowned crane) Color woodcut, 1857. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Big Bird of Sesame Street at the Library of Congress Bicentennial. Photo, 2000. Prints & Photographs Division

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  The habeas corpus, or The wild geese flying away with Fox to America. British political cartoon, 1782. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Indigo Bird. Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Elephant folio, 1827-1838. Rare Book Division

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  Bird of Washington. Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Elephant folio, 1827-1838. Rare Book Division

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  Mountain Mocking Bird and Varied Thrush. Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Elephant folio, 1827-1838. Rare Book Division

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  Rose-breasted grosbeak. Color engraving by R. Havell, after drawing by John J. Audubon. Elephant folio, 1827-1838. Rare Book Division

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  Civil War envelope showing an eagle carrying an American flag in its claw and a serpent in its beak with motto "The early bird catches the worm" below. By John S. Trimble, 1861-65. Prints & Photographs Division

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  Singing of Birds. Sheet music cover, 1871. Music Division

• Parr's Swiss styles bird cage. Lithograph, 1872. Prints & Photographs Division

• Yellow bird perched on rose stems. Chromolithograph by L. Prang, 1873. Prints & Photographs Division

• 1. King bird. 2. Great crested flycatcher. 3. Pewee flycatcher or phœbe. Lithograph by L. Prang, 1874. Prints & Photographs Division

• Ice Bird. Chromolithograph, 1876. Prints & Photographs Division

• Lloyd's pictorial chart of birds. Hand-colored engraving, 1876. Prints & Photographs Division

• Canary bird cage. Lithograph, 1877. Prints & Photographs Division

• Apple blossoms and bird's nest / after Mrs. O.E. Whitney. Chromolithograph by L. Prang, 1878. Prints & Photographs Division

• The mallard duck Anas boschas (Linnæus). In: Upland game birds and water fowl of the United States, by A. Pope Jr., 1878. Prints & Photographs Division

• Bird on a stalk, singing. Chromolithograph by L. Prang, 1883. Prints & Photographs Division

• The cruelties of fashion - "fine feathers make fine birds." Drawing by John Hyde, published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1883. Prints & Photographs Division

• "In February." Illustration for "Baby's Lullaby Book ... by Charles Stuart Pratt," 1888. Prints & Photographs Division

• School and family charts, by Marcius Willson and N.A. Calkins. ... Aves, or birds, classification of birds. Hand-colored engraving, 1890. Prints & Photographs Division

• Early Birds. Chromolithograph, 1892. Prints & Photographs Division

• Peacocks. Crayon drawings by James McNeill Whistler, 1900. Prints & Photographs Division

• Flamingos in Maharaja’s aviary, Jaipur, India. Stereograph by H.C. White, 1907. Prints & Photographs Division

• The swallow and the raven. Ink drawing by E. Boyd Smith. Published in: Aesop's Fables, New York: The Century Co., 1911. Prints & Photographs Division

• Scene from "Sanctuary, A Bird Masque," by Percy MacKaye, at the Meriden Bird Club sanctuary dedication in New Hampshire. Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1913.

• Showing how the pigeons are part of the U.S. Army They too have to have their identification tag ..., Fort Lucy, France. Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1918. Prints & Photographs Division

• Mexican wild turkey. Photo of drawing by Louis Agassiz. Detroit Publishing Co., 1912-1920. Prints & Photographs Division

• American Forestry Assn. Bird House contest. Photo by National Photo Co., 1/19/21. Prints & Photographs Division

• Critical moments. Drawing by Herbert Johnson, 1921. Prints & Photographs Division

• Swan at a zoo(?). Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1921. Prints & Photographs Division

• The bird-lover. Ink drawing by John C. Conacher, 1922. Prints & Photographs Division

• Birds. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1915-1923. Prints & Photographs Division

• Group of boys with bird houses; White House in background. Washington, D.C.] Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1923. Prints & Photographs Division

• Bookplate for ornithologist Ruthven Deane. Hand-colored etching by Sidney L. Smith, 1924. Prints & Photographs Division

• Visit the zoo. Poster by Louise Welsh, 1936 or 1937. Prints & Photographs Division

• Southeast Missouri Farms. Sharecropper family with pet bird in shack home. La Forge project, Missouri. Photo by Russell Lee, 1938. Prints & Photographs Division

• Spanish-American FSA (Farm Security Administration) client feeding her chickens near Taos, New Mexico. Photo by Russell Lee, 1939. Prints & Photographs Division

• Incubator and baby chicks. Photo by Russell Lee, 1941. Prints & Photographs Division

• Man and woman feeding pigeons.Photo by Angelo Rizzuto, 1954. Prints & Photographs Division

• Peace. Poster with a dove and olive branch, 1970s. Prints & Photographs Division

• Residents of Parrot Jungle and Gardens, south of Miami, Florida. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 1980s-20060. Prints & Photographs Division

• This pier in the Florida Keys, often becomes a virtual bird sanctuary. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 1980s-2006. Prints & Photographs Division

• This is Cheyenne, a seven-year-old female bald eagle, Colorado. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2015. Prints & Photographs Division

• Burrowing owl, Arizona. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2018. Prints & Photographs Division