Bird diagram from the 1886 'A nomenclature of colors for naturalists : and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists' by Robert Ridgway (via Smithsonian Libraries) Colors in the 1912 'Color ...

For The Times’s summer birding project, I spoke to the field guide illustrator about how to sketch a bird. Here’s how he draws a black-capped chickadee → Start with a circle, then add an oval. Draw a ...

If you love birds but you’re not yet in love with adult coloring books, this might just pull you in the way a bufflehead plops into a pond. “The Sibley Birds Coloring Field Journal” is 67 pages of ...

Watch Angry Birds come to life through an incredibly detailed colored pencil drawing. This full time-lapse showcases realistic textures, bold colors, and impressive artistic precision from start to ...

Times readers were invited to share their drawings of the avian life around them. Here are more of our favorites. By The New York Times All through the summer, as part of our birding project, The ...