1000+ Bird photos for Creature Artists

If you're designing dragons, drawing dinosaurs, or painting other weird and wonderful creatures, then this collection is for you! Over 1000 photos of birds curated especially for creature artists, focusing on details such as eyes, beaks, wings, feet, crests, casques, and more!

Notes:

• Dimensions/resolution vary considerably from 1k to 8k along the longest edge.
• All subjects are living.
• Most subjects are Australian.
• Photos are grouped according to theme, and named according to species.
• There are a few cases where I didn't know the exact species, so I used the broader name (eg: "Duck")
• Some photos use focus stacking (multiple photos at different focal depths blended together to create a single image with more detail than otherwise possible). These photos have "stacked" in their filename.
  This process can cause artifacts if the subject moved, so low-priority areas of these photos may look a little weird.
• I've chosen crisp, high-quality photos where possible, but if a photo shows something unique or particularly useful I felt a bit of noise and/or blur would be acceptable.

Zip contents & folders:

• Faces
  • Beaks, mouths, eyes, neres, ears, throats etc.
  • Butcherbirds (50 photos)
  • Flightless Birds (53 photos)
  • Other Birds (75 photos)
  • Owls & Raptors (26 photos)
  • Parrots & Cockatoos (142 photos)
  • Pigeons & Doves (31 photos)
  • Small Birds (37 photos)
  • Water Birds (105 photos)
• Feathers
  • Crests (66 photos)
  • Textures & Details (95 photos)
  • Wings & Flying (205 photos)
• Feet
  • Flightless Birds (25 photos)
  • Other Birds (55 photos)
  • Water Birds (63 photos)

Equipment/Software used:

• Canon EOS R5 camera
• Canon RF 100-500mm lens
• Developed in Adobe Lightroom
• Focus Stacking done in Adobe Photoshop

Full list of bird species included:

(Some species have fewer photos than others, sometimes just one or two, and not across all categories. Feel free to ask before buying if you have questions!)

• Pied Currawong
• Grey Butcherbird
• Australian Magpie
• Emu
• Southern Cassowary
• Blue Winged Kookaburra
• Laughing Kookaburra
• Brown Gerygone
• Australian Brush-Turkey
• Bush Stone-curlew
• Golden Pheasant
• Superb Lyrebird
• Noisy Friarbird
• Satin Bowerbird
• Tawny Frogmouth
• Barking Owl
• Black-breasted Buzzard
• Crimson Rosella
• Galah
• Gang-gang Cockatoo
• Australian King Parrot
• Crimson Rosella
• Rainbow Lorikeet
• Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
• Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
• Common Bronzewing
• Crested Pigeon
• Brown Cuckoo-dove
• White-headed Pigeon
• Eastern Spinebill
• New Holland Honeyeater
• Noisy Miner
• Superb Fairy-wren
• Variegated Fairy-wren
• White-browed Scrubwren
• Australasian Swamphen
• Australian White Ibis
• Black-necked Stork
• Brolga
• Chestnut Teal
• Eurasian Coot
• Little Black Cormorant
• Masked Lapwing
• Pacific Black Duck
• Australian Pelican
• Little Penguin
• Royal Spoonbill
• Yellow-billed Spoonbill
• Australian Wood Duck
• Australian Shelduck
• Australasian Shoveler
• Fairy Martin
• Welcome Swallow
• Willie Wagtail
• White-faced Heron
• Striated Thornbill
• Weebill
• Great Egret
• Feral Pigeon