Anyone who thinks they can simply lie down briefly on a public bench is already being sabotaged: the benches are deliberately too short for this, or the public benches are being interrupted by ‘comfortable’ armrests. Into our obsession with control and security and what that can ultimately derail comes Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s impressive artwork, Parkverbot (looted art). It captures our schizophrenic Western society in a nutshell, constantly talking about values such as freedom and peace but at the same time correcting the symbol of this – the Dove – by using the tools of an animal abuser.

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So Neels Castillon was shooting a commercial with Mathias Touzeris in Marseille, France, when a massive flock of starlings turned up and started a mass aerial display. The technical term for the dance is ‘murmuration’, and Alt-J’s Hand-made makes a really good soundtrack for the birds’ ensemble performance.

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Rene Mesman is a photographer based in Amsterdam with a perfect eye for detail. Besides interiors, advertisements, and a intriguing series of people in Kosovo, he also creates still life and a series of still life pictures with taxidermy. He gives birds a perfect hairdo and thereby a human appearance. Or is it, in fact, a new species?

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You won’t believe your eyes. These feathered guys are sporting gorgeous hues that are completely unnatural. Artist Julian Charriere created a pigeon painting machine to add a little extra color to daily life. Basically, she built a huge bird trap on a building which caught the pigeons, carried them on a conveyer belt, and air brushed them to perfection. Talk about an unnatural spray tan.

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You don’t want to cross these feathered little guys. They’re real tough customers. Or at least, that’s the way things seem in these humorous photos by Indonesian photographer Sijanto Sijanto. These shots capture the perfect moment when the little birdies are at their angriest. If they could speak, we’d hear tiny chirps of “Hey Bro, do you even lift?!”.

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This clever design series presented during Dutch Design Week 2008 combines beautiful fonts and taxidermy birds. Surprisingly, these images brighten your mood with all the vibrant color. Somehow a stuffed dead body isn’t so creepy after all. The concept is playing off the fact that the words spell out noises that the birds made while still living, but the birds being photographed are actually dead. Each cool set of letters is cut out of bright paper which contrast nicely with the colors in the photos.

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Polish photographer Marcin Ryczek was in Krakow when he saw a guy feeding swans and ducks. The sheer beauty of the stark contrast between his dark figure against the snow-covered land, and between the white swans against the dark waters and er, dark ducks, has led to this picture surfacing everywhere on the Internet and shared like crazy. Everyone seems not to notice that these swans seem a bit of a bully with their duck-nudging tactics. Apparently the swans in Britain aren’t the nicest birds around either.

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Have you ever wanted to teach your pet crow to play the piano but just didn’t know which training curriculum to buy? Well look no further! Daniel Walthers had the exact same dilemma when it came to training his pets Mac and Moe to tickle the ivories. And so he invented the Advanced Corvid Training DVD. ‘Does it work?’, you may ask. Just watch the birds perform and judge for yourself!

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Artist Adam S Doyle creates beautifully graphic images imbued with simple, rich texture, showing a kind of restraint that many illustrators can learn from. Being neither simplistic nor flashy, his bird paintings are a prime example of less being more, provided you know what you’re doing.

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Russian photographer Andre Ermolaev has managed to capture some absolutely astonishing images of Iceland’s volcanoes with a bird’s eye perspective. Each shot is completely unique and looks like everything from magnified body parts to dragon scales. We suggest having a little game of ‘Dude that looks like …’ It’s even funner then playing with the clouds.

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Sure, call us childish, but there’s something about pigeons that give us the giggles. They’ may look dumpy and loopy, but these winged bastards are also hardcore street survivors. We don’t think we’re alone in our fascination — the Feral Pigeon has over 42,000 followers on Twitter (sadly, there’s been a lack of, er, tweets, since June). Thankfully we’ve found Today’s Pigeon by Mike Immerman and Allison Bagg over at culture site Animal. Here, gritty snapshots of irate street pigeons come with the badly (and suitably) scribbled bird-brained musings they harbour in their pretty little heads.

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One night last year, I happened to catch some of Shannon Favia’s artwork on display at Chicago restaurant/venue, Uncommon Ground, just down the street from Wrigley Field. It really caught my eye, so I made sure to find her work online when I got home that evening. Using materials that include spray paint, cutout strips of denim, buttons, guitar picks and a wide variety of specialty papers, she creates pieces that immediately draw you in. Birds seem to be a favorite subject and her work often features them pasted on or stenciled text that make interesting comments on various aspects of the human condition. Or would that be the bird condition?

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Who says that playing with Lego is just for kids? After seeing the lovely British Bird Series by Thomas Poulsom, we should be positive that letting your creativity flow is one of the healthiest and most beautiful things you can do. And by supporting his birds on Cuusoo, they can even become an official Lego model.

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When I first saw this photo, I thought it was some kind of colorful, fuzzy caterpillar. It’s actually a group of birds huddling together, which is a lot cuter. You know what they say, birds of a feather stick together.

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Do you remember the first time you went to the beach? This is three year-old Nicole’s first time ever playing at the beach. I don’t remember my first time in the sand or water, but I can only hope that I had this much fun! On a technical note, this was shot entirely on the GoPro camera.

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You’ve heard of a bird on a wire, right? New art entitled Here To Ear (v.13) 2010, by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, is currently installed at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. The installation is both intensely seductive and aesthetically beautiful, whilst providing a fabulous re-use for thousands of wire coat hangers.

It works like this: right before your eyes, dozens of tiny finches (each a work of art in its own right) alight on coat hangers that hang in pods from the gallery ceiling. The movement of each bird triggers a sound. By capturing the movement of the finches and letting these random notes mingle with the birds’ own singing, Boursier-Mougenot has given us a great privilege, allowing us to briefly become part of their natural world.

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Artist and composer Celeste Boursier-Mougenot recently installed electric guitars in a room full of zebra finches to see what kind of music they would make. Turns out these little birds are worthy of a spot on the No Fun Fest bill this year.

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Melbourne-based collage artist Kareem Risk’s series of birds are a wonderful example of great colour combined with a fascinating subject and effective typography. Zazzle now features post-card versions of the prints. Get mailing, kids.

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If the zombie apocalypse looks anything like Max Kauffman’s artwork, we have nothing to fear because there will be cute zombie birds. Also, zombies in Kauffman’s universe prefer Eskimo kisses to brains.

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This photo from Rhode Island photographer Diana Brennan has made my day. The delicate beauty she captures, which is so tender and still, is a nice thing to pontificate over a rich coffee and a sense of quiet introspection. ‘Brennan shoots mainly with a digital SLR camera, but also enjoys using vintage film cameras and experimenting with different techniques. She believes that the essence of a scene is often captured best by photographing the details. Her work evokes her love of natural New England, her awareness of the environment, and her passion to create’.

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