Bird stickers for all 11,064 living bird species

花叔开源的全球鸟类贴纸库：全世界现存的11064种鸟，每种一张白边贴纸，附43种语言的鸟名和分布、形态、保护等级数据。贴纸出自花叔做的观鸟App「鸣迹」。中文说明 →

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By Huashu (花叔), from the bird-watching app Mingji (鸣迹). 11,064 bird species, one sticker each, across 44 orders and 250 families: every living species in the IOC World Bird List v15.2 (the 163 extinct species are not included). Each species comes with structured data: taxonomy, names in up to 43 languages, cross-database IDs, and where every sticker came from.

The stickers are free to use for almost anything, including commercial work, under PolyForm Shield 1.0.0: the one thing you may not do is use them in a product that competes with our bird app (another birding, bird-ID or field-guide app or site). The data is MIT. Please read NOTICE for the parts that come from third parties, and About the reference photos below.

Gallery

Eighteen of the most colourful and distinctive groups, 24 stickers each, picked so that no two look alike. Every sticker shown here meets the quality bar.

Hummingbirds · Trochilidae — 365 species

Parrots & cockatoos · Psittaciformes — 392 species

Kingfishers · Alcedinidae — 116 species

Bee-eaters, rollers & motmots · Meropidae · Coraciidae · Brachypteraciidae · Momotidae · Todidae — 68 species

Toucans & barbets · Ramphastidae · Capitonidae · Semnornithidae · Megalaimidae · Lybiidae — 134 species

Birds-of-paradise & bowerbirds · Paradisaeidae · Ptilonorhynchidae — 69 species

Pittas · Pittidae — 46 species

Tanagers · Thraupidae — 393 species

Sunbirds & flowerpeckers · Nectariniidae · Dicaeidae — 208 species

Cotingas & manakins · Cotingidae · Pipridae — 121 species

Pheasants & partridges · Phasianidae — 185 species

Ducks, geese & swans · Anatidae — 166 species

Pigeons & doves · Columbidae — 339 species

Waxbills & munias · Estrildidae — 140 species

Jays & magpies · Corvidae — 138 species

New World orioles & oropendolas · Icteridae — 107 species

Hornbills · Bucerotidae — 64 species

Starlings & mynas · Sturnidae — 120 species

One from each of the 44 orders

What's inside

A record looks like this (names shortened):

{
  "id": "Accipiter_nisus",
  "scientificName": "Accipiter nisus",
  "authority": "(Linnaeus, 1758)",
  "taxonomy": {"system": "IOC 15.2", "seq": 2872, "order": "Accipitriformes", "family": "Accipitridae", "genus": "Accipiter"},
  "names": {"en": "Eurasian Sparrowhawk", "zh-Hans": "雀鹰", "ja": "ハイタカ", "es": "Gavilán común", "fr": "Épervier d'Europe", "…": "…"},
  "ids": {"wikidata": "Q25380", "ebird": "eurspa1", "gbif": "2480637", "inaturalist": 5106},
  "range": {"breedingRegion": "PAL", "breeding": "widespread", "nonbreeding": "OR, ne AF"},
  "subspecies": [{"name": "nisus", "range": "Europe to sw Siberia and c Asia"}, "…"],
  "traits": {"massG": 220.8, "wingMm": 207.4, "tailMm": 155.5, "habitat": "Forest", "migration": "partially migratory", "trophicNiche": "Vertivore", "…": "…"},
  "conservation": {"iucn": "LC", "cites": "II"},
  "sticker": {
    "file": "stickers/Accipitriformes/Accipitridae/Accipiter_nisus.webp",
    "kind": "ai-illustration",
    "reviewScore": 91,
    "meetsQualityBar": true,
    "license": "PolyForm-Shield-1.0.0",
    "reference": {"type": "photo", "page": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:…", "author": "Dion Art", "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0"}
  }
}

Coverage

• Names: English covers every species, French and Simplified Chinese all but a handful (Simplified Chinese has no names yet for 23 recently split species); Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Swedish and about a dozen more European languages cover over 90%. Serbian, Hungarian and Estonian are between 50% and 75%. Korean, Arabic, Thai, Persian and some others cover only a few hundred to about a thousand species so far, because that is what the IOC list has. See data/names.csv.
• IDs: Wikidata 10,939, GBIF 10,649, eBird 10,052.
• Stickers: 11,064 of 11,064.

How the stickers were made, and how good they are

11,064 stickers are AI illustrations. For each species we found a reference photo (or, for 453 species where no single photo was good enough, a board of several images plus a written description), drew the sticker with GPT-image, upscaled it, and cut it out.

Every AI sticker was then scored by a separate reviewer against the reference for field marks: bill, eye, legs and feet, plumage pattern and colour. In the last round, 852 borderline stickers (80–82) also got a second, blind review, and 211 of them failed it and were redrawn. Borderline stickers from earlier rounds did not get this second review.

• 7,668 meet our quality bar ("meetsQualityBar": true): AI stickers scoring 80 or above.
• 3,396 do not. They were redrawn up to the limit, and we kept the best-scoring version so that no species is left without a picture. 3,281 score 70–79, 109 score below 70, and 6 scored 80+ but failed the blind second review.

These are illustrations, not field-guide plates. Treat them as a friendly picture of the bird, and check a field guide before relying on a fine detail. If you spot a mistake, please open an issue — corrections from birders are the most valuable contribution this project can get.

About the reference photos

Each sticker's reference is listed in sticker.reference, with its page, author and license. They break down like this (AI stickers, by species):

The stickers are new drawings, not copies, and the reference photos are not distributed here. Whether a drawing made from a photo is bound by that photo's license is not settled law. If it matters for what you are doing, filter on sticker.reference.license.

Use it

Raw files can be loaded directly:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alchaincyf/huashu-bird-sticker/main/stickers/Accipitriformes/Accipitridae/Accipiter_nisus.webp

import json
species = json.load(open("data/species.json"))["species"]
by_name = {s["scientificName"]: s for s in species}
print(by_name["Pica pica"]["names"]["ja"], by_name["Pica pica"]["sticker"]["file"])

The repository is about 700 MB. To fetch only the data and a few stickers:

git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/alchaincyf/huashu-bird-sticker
cd huashu-bird-sticker && git sparse-checkout set data stickers/Strigiformes

Credits

• Taxonomy and multilingual names: IOC World Bird List v15.2, Gill, Donsker & Rasmussen (Eds), CC BY 3.0.
• Cross-database IDs: Wikidata (CC0).
• Body measurements and ecology: AVONET, Tobias et al. 2022, Ecology Letters, CC BY 4.0.
• Reference photographers: credited per species in data/species.json. Reference photos are not included in this repository.
• Stickers drawn for 鸣迹 (Mingji), a bird-watching notebook app for iOS.

If a sticker is based on your photo and you would rather it weren't, open an issue or email [email protected] and we will replace or remove it within 7 days.