Four black birds fill these transparent images: a dove rising with open wings, a swallow gliding on long pointed wings, a hummingbird hovering with its beak aimed forward, and a songbird standing on the ground with its tail raised. This free bird silhouette PNG clipart set gives you each bird as a separate high resolution graphic with a transparent background, ready to place on printed cards, pages and posters.
I kept every bird in plain black for this set, because a black silhouette stays clear and readable on almost any light color you place under it. Every light feather line inside the wings and tails is a transparent opening, and the eye is open as well, so the color behind the image fills these spaces. When I set the dove over a soft sunrise gradient for a card, the warm colors of the morning came through its wing feathers, and the bird looked as if it were made from the same sky it was flying through.
Four High Resolution Bird PNG Graphics
Each bird comes as its own PNG graphic. The dove measures 8534 × 10000 pixels, the hummingbird 9171 × 10000 pixels, the swallow 10000 × 8138 pixels and the songbird 10000 × 7064 pixels. In every image, the background and all feather openings are fully transparent, and the songbird also has an open space between its legs. The edges of the silhouettes are smoothed with semi-transparent black pixels, so the outline blends cleanly into a colored background without a light fringe around the bird.
At a print resolution of 300 dpi, the birds themselves measure about:
- Dove: 68 × 77 cm
- Swallow: 80 × 61 cm
- Hummingbird: 73 × 77 cm
- Songbird: 80 × 51 cm
Therefore any of the birds can fill an A3 or tabloid poster at full print quality, and on a greeting card or an invitation the edges stay sharp even in the finest feather tips. Because PNG is a raster image, these print sizes are the useful upper limit, and printing much larger than this softens the edges.
The transparency decides how each bird looks on the page. On white paper, the openings simply show white, and the birds read as crisp black silhouettes with light feathers. On a colored or patterned background, the same openings take on that color, which gives you a second color without any extra work. For this reason, light and medium backgrounds suit the birds best, since the black silhouette loses its contrast on a very dark page. If you need the birds in another color, most photo and layout programs let you apply a color overlay to the image before you print it.
Within personal and noncommercial projects, these bird graphics fit many printed pieces. The dove works well on a printed wedding or christening program, while the swallow suits a spring greeting card. The hummingbird can mark a garden party invitation that you print at home, and the four birds placed in a row across the top of a page give a journal, a scrapbook spread or a recipe binder a light, airy header. Printed on sticker paper and cut out by hand, the birds also become small labels for jars and gift tags.
Download the Free Transparent Bird PNG Graphics
The download contains four PNG graphics, one for each bird.
- Format: PNG, one graphic per bird
- Color: black silhouette
- Transparency: background, feather openings and eye
- Pixel size: dove 8534 × 10000, swallow 10000 × 8138, hummingbird 9171 × 10000, songbird 10000 × 7064
Download the bird PNG graphics and place the bird you need on your card, page or poster. Then choose the background color that will show through its feathers, and print the design at the size your project needs.
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