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Bird wall art covers two different products that share a name. Metal, wood, ceramic and wire birds hang as objects and cast a shadow on the wall. Printed bird art hangs as a picture and reads as a scene. Choosing between them settles more about the room than choosing the bird does.
A metal bird is a sculpture. Its effect comes from depth and the shadow it throws, so it wants a plain wall and light from one side. Hung flat under even ceiling light it loses most of what it was bought for.
A printed bird is a picture. The effect comes from the scene around the bird: the water, the sky, the light behind it. It works under any lighting and sits alongside other framed or canvas pieces without competing with them.
Everything on this page is the printed kind. Canvas, printed to order, stretched over a solid wooden inner frame and ready to hang.
Printed bird art divides again, and this is the split that decides whether a piece suits your wall. A species portrait shows plumage close up and identifies the bird. A silhouette shows the shape against sky, sunset or moon and identifies the mood instead.
Portraits reward a short viewing distance. They belong in a study, a hallway or above a desk, where the feather detail is close enough to read, and they hang well in sets of three.
Silhouettes work from across a room. The bird is a black shape and the color comes from the light behind it, which makes them behave like landscape pieces rather than wildlife pieces.
Worth knowing before you browse: this collection is the silhouette kind. If a detailed plumage study is what you are after, that is a different sort of print and it is not what you will find here.
Eagles, cranes, ravens, geese, ducks, swans and seagulls, almost all photographed or composed against sunrise, sunset or a full moon.
The bald eagle is the most repeated subject, in flight over open water and against a moon. Japanese Cranes at Sunset is the calmest piece of the set, two long necked birds against a flat orange sky. Ravens on Silhouetted Tree Under Full Moon is the darkest, and it is the one that suits an autumn or Halloween wall.
What is not here: garden songbirds, cardinals, hummingbirds and close feather studies. For a single named bird there are dedicated pages instead, so a search for one species is better served there than in the general collection.
A silhouette is black. Every color in the piece belongs to the light behind the bird, which means you match the room to the sunset rather than to the species.
Warm pieces, the orange and gold sunsets, sit with terracotta, oak, cream and brass. Cool pieces, the moonlit blues and greys, sit with cool grey, navy, black metal and white. A warm sunset bird on a cool grey wall is the one combination that reliably looks wrong, and it is easy to avoid once you know the color is coming from the sky.
This also makes silhouette work easier to place than a portrait. There is one dominant color to match rather than a plumage palette of four or five.
Buy wider than the bird. A silhouette needs empty sky around it, and a piece cropped tight to the wings loses the openness that made it work.
Above furniture, span about two thirds the width of what sits below and leave 6 to 8 inches of clear wall between the two. On a bare wall, center the piece 57 to 60 inches from the floor. The wall art size guide carries the full measurements.
Every piece here is offered as a single canvas or as a multi-panel set, chosen on the product page. Multi-panel suits a flying formation, because the gaps between panels fall in empty sky rather than through a subject. A single perched bird is better kept as one canvas, so that no gap cuts through it.
Bedrooms and living rooms take the moonlit pieces best, because a dark image with one bright light source behaves like a lamp in a quiet room. Hallways and stairwells take the flying formations, since a bird crossing the frame gives the eye a direction to travel and those are walls people move past rather than sit in front of.
A study or home office suits the eagle work, which is the most upright and least decorative of the group. Avoid a dim room for the darkest moonlit pieces: with little ambient light a black tree against a black sky reads as a dark rectangle.
Start with Bird Wall Art. For the single most requested species, Eagle Wall Art, and for water birds with long necks and reflections, Swan Wall Art.
For color rather than silhouette, Peacock Wall Art and Flamingo Wall Art are the two that lead with plumage. For the detail without the whole bird, Feather Wall Art.
For the wider subject, see animal art on canvas and art in nature.
Artwork with a bird as the subject. The term covers two unrelated products: metal, wood and ceramic bird sculptures that hang as objects, and printed bird art on canvas or paper that hangs as a picture. The two suit different walls and different lighting.
No. A metal bird is a sculpture whose effect depends on depth and the shadow it casts, so it needs side lighting and a plain wall. A canvas print is flat and shows the bird inside a scene, so it works in any light and hangs alongside other pictures.
In silhouette work, the color of the sky rather than the bird. The bird is black and the sunset, sunrise or moonlight behind it carries the palette. Warm orange pieces suit terracotta, oak and cream. Moonlit blue and grey pieces suit cool grey, navy and white.
Yes, and it works best on birds in flight. A formation crossing the sky gives the gaps between panels somewhere empty to land, so nothing important is cut. A single perched bird is better as one canvas, because a panel gap through the body breaks the shape.
Moonlit pieces suit bedrooms and living rooms, where one bright light source in a dark image reads as calm. Flying formations suit hallways and stairwells, because the bird gives the eye a direction along a wall people walk past. Keep the darkest pieces out of dim rooms.
