Is that wall over there blank? Put a bird on it! Avian art dates back for millennia (and birds are among the oldest living class of animals on earth—literally dinosaurs), and there's just about zero chance that birds as a subject won't continue to captivate artists and art lovers way into the future. Birds can signify so many things: freedom, hope, peace, beauty—the list goes on. Here's a flock of some of our favorite feathered friends, but we have so many more we couldn't include, from vultures to peacocks to pigeons. Somewhat surprisingly, we only have one avian photograph: one of Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion series. The rest are artists' expressive renditions of the animal (scroll to the bottom to see Jane Mount's exceedingly playful drawings of a few flightless birds).
