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Upper and lower views of the skull of a dodo. Lithograph from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred, London, Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1848
Side view of the skull of a dodo. Lithograph from Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melvilles The Dodo and its Kindred, London, Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1848
Yellow Cinnamon Canary. Date: 1933
Yorkshire Canary. Date: 1933
Thames watermen at work during Swan Upping, when cygnets need to be rounded up on the Upper Thames River and distinguishing marks cut on their bills
Sir Malcolm Campbells Blue Bird, Bonneville, Utah, USASir Malcolm Campbells Blue Bird at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, USA, for the World Land Speed Record 1935. 1935
Invited guests at the bird-table by Neave ParkerA variety of British birds at a bird-table on a snowy winters day. 1. Robin, 2. starlings, 3. Redwing, 4. Chaffinch, 5. Nuthatch, 6. sparrow, 7. great spotted woodpecker, 8. blackbird, 8, thrush, 10
Poster for Mother Goose, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s
Voisin Bird of Passage biplaneJohn Theodore Cuthbert Jtc Moore-Brabazons Voisin Bird of Passage Biplane Number 4 Parked Outside the Short Brothers Hangar at Leysdown in 1909 Date: 1909
R M Bolstons Large Model Ornithopter in 1907 Date: 1907
Herring gulls at St Ives, CornwallClose-up of herring gulls at St Ives, Cornwall. Date: 1960s
Feeding the Pigeons on steps of St. Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 1925
Cover design, British Airways Summer Timetable 1938, as the crow flies, only faster! 1938
Misfitz - Spoony. early 20th century
Jacobin Cuckoo, Clamator jacobinusNumber 11 of 61 watercolour drawings of birds from the Himalaya Mountains in the collection of Lady Mary Bentinck. Artist unknown, date 1833, Library & Archives Z88 f BEN Date: 1833
Emu by Gambier BoltonEmu photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring
Purple-throated hummingbirds, maleIn a fascinating example of sexual dimorphism and plant-animal relationships: the male hummingbird with a larger body and short
Cyanoramphos unicolor, Antipodes parakeetPlate 25 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph. Date: 1832
Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, extinct.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Frederic Martyns New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785
Collared lory, Phigys solitarius.. Handcolored steel engraving by Joseph Kidd from Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Browns Miscellany of Natural History: Parrots, Edinburgh, 1833
Brown Cuckoo-Dove, Macropygia phasianella.. Handcolored steel engraving by William Lizars after an illustration by Edward Lear from Prideaux John Selbys volume Pigeons in Sir William Jardines
Calandra lark, skylark, crested lark and marsh lark.. Handcolored engraving on steel by Annedouche after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richards New Edition of the Complete Works of Comte de
Print Users Yearbook -- blue budgerigarsPrint Users Yearbook -- two blue budgerigars sitting on a perch. Date: circa 1930s
Versailles PalaceBirds eye view done in the year Louis XIV died, as his soul would have seen it for the last time as he ascended to Heaven. Date: 1715
Alcedo athhis, common kingfisherWatercolour by Charles F. Tunnicliffe (c. 1973)
Ara ararauna, blue-and-yellow maccawPlate from William Hayes Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, With Their Descriptions, From the Menagery of Osterley Park, London, (1794)
Jynx torquilla, wryneck, Dendrocopos major, great spotted woPlate 60 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)
A Malayan forest, with its characteristic birdsPlate 9 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Sterna albifrons, little ternPlate 73 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Passer domesticus, house sparrowPlate 32 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Podiceps cristatus, great crested grebePlate 38 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Moho nobilis, Hawaii o-oMoho nobilis. Ff. 26, watercolour by William Ellis from a collection of sketches of Mammals, Birds and Fish made on Captian James Cooks third voyage (1776-1780)
Carduelis spinus, Eurasian siskinPlate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Mergellus albellus, smewPlate 37 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Thalassarche chlororhynchos, yellow-nosed albatross
Bucephala clangula, common goldeneyePlate 31 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Motacilla flava thunbergi, yellow wagtailPlate 4 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Psittacula krameri manillensis, Indian ringneck parakeet (LuPlate 33 from Edward Lears Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots (1832). Hand coloured lithograph
Megalaima zeylanica, brown-headed barbetPlate 28, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Cygnus columbianus, tundra swanPlate 10 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Scene in New Zealand, with some of its remarkable birdsPlate 13 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Geographical Distribution of Animals, (1876)
Inachis io Linneaus, peacock butterflyClose up of wing of peacock butterfly from the family Nymphalida. Magnified wing detail from specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London
Strelitzia reginae, bird of paradiseEngraving by Phelippeaux after a painting from Choix Des Plus Belles Fleurs by Pierre Joseph Redoute (1759-1840)
Semioptera wallacei, standardwingPlate 52, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from John Goulds The Birds of Australia, Supplementary volume, (1840-1848)
Anas undulata, yellow-billed duckFf. 72. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas xanthorynchus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Anas erythrorhyncha, red-billed duckFf. 73. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated Anas pyrrhoryncha and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Vermivora bachmanii, Bachmans warblerPlate 185 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1831-34), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London
Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist