Just like in real life there’s a huge and diverse amount of origami birds from all kinds of different species. This post has an assortment of different origami birds from all kinds of species and designers.
Satoshi Kamiya’s rooster is probably the most famous paper rooster out there and it looks excellent.
Rooster, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Yuki.N.
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan 19th Convention Book
Here’s a really awesome pelican with a great colour change in the design.
Pelican, Designed by Julio Eduardo and Folded by Eyal R
Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #121
This next bird is called a Curlew. It’s got a fantastic design especially the legs and feet and looks kind of cute.
Curlew, Designed and Folded by Tom Defoirdt
Instructions not available
There are a lot of really great paper eagles such as this one designed by Hoang Trung Thanh.
Eagle, Designed by Hoang Trung Thanh and Folded by Agnieska (Agne) Mackonyte
Video instructions available from Tuan Dao’s YouTube channel
This is a really awesome photograph of a cute little origami mocking bird in the wild.
Merle Moqueur, Designed and Folded by Sebastien Limet
Instructions not available
Here is a beautiful and simple papercraft duck.
Duck, Designed and Folded by Beth Johnson
Instructions not available
Everyone knows about the traditional origami crane but there are also much more realistic looking origami cranes like this amazing design from Robert J. Lang.
Dancing Crane, Designed by Robert J. Lang and Folded by Gonzalo
Diagrams available in Origami Design Secrets: Second Edition
This is a pretty awesome origami kingfisher although I believe the fish is a second sheet of paper. Nevertheless it still looks fantastic.
Kingfisher, Designed and Folded by paper in dream
Instructions not available
Vietnamese origami designers tend to have a very unique style with their designs often using a lot of curved lines and shapes like you see with these origami doves.
Doves, Designed and Folded by Nguyễn Hùng Cường
Instructions not available
Here’s a great peacock that uses a sort of tessellation pattern for all the feathers.
Peacock, Designed and Folded by Sergio Guarachi
Instructions not available
This is another much more complex origami eagle. I especially love those claws.
Eagle, Designed and Folded by 驰 张
Instructions not available
Here’s a beautiful little origami hummingbird.
Hummingbird, Designed and Folded by Alexander Kurth
Instructions not available
This is probably the fanciest looking origami duck I’ve ever seen.
Mandarin Duck, Designed and Folded by Winston
Instructions not available
If you use the proper toucan coloured paper this origami toucan looks amazing.
Toucan, Designed by Angel Morollón and Folded by Luc MARNAT
Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #124
This is a great looking origami heron designed by Sebastien Limet.
Heron, Designed by Sebastien Limet and Folded by Luc MARNAT
Diagrams available in Pajarita Magazine #118
Here’s another beautiful Vietnamese style design for an origami swan.
Swan, Designed and Folded by Hoàng Tiến Quyết
Instructions not available
This is a great and cute looking paper sparrow designed by Alfredo Giunta.
Sparrow, Designed by Alfredo Giunta and Folded by Gonzalo
Instructions not available
Here’s a fantastic mocking bird design that makes excellent use of two-coloured paper for a different coloured beak and feet.
Mocking Bird, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Luc MARNAT
Diagrams available in #3 Origami Essence
Satoshi Kamiya designed a great looking Japanese white eye bird and published the diagrams in the Origami Tanteidan magazine. The design was super popular and tons of people took a shot at folding it. Here’s the model expertly folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Japanese White Eye, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #153
Roman Diaz has designed a really awesome looking paper cardinal. It’s especially awesome looking if you use red and black paper like Pierre-andré did here.
Cardinal, Designed by Roman Diaz and Folded by Pierre-andré
Diagrams available in #3 Origami Essence
This next model blows my mind. It’s a full skeleton of a bird which I believe is folded from one sheet of paper. Not only is the model itself so impressive but so is the fact that Xu Daniel managed to fold one so small.
Bone of Bird, Designed by Kei Watanabe and Folded by Xu Daniel
Instructions not available
Here’s an extinct bird which is just plain awesome.
Extinct Bird, Designed and Folded by TERRY Nicolas
Diagrams available free from origami-shop.com
I couldn’t make a post about origami birds without including Brian Chan’s amazing origami crow. My favourite part of this model is the claws on the toes.
Crow, Designed by Brian Chan and Folded by DebugMode
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #113
I’m not completely sure what species of bird this is but it is absolutely amazing. I love how you can see so many individual feathers.
Designed and Folded by 驰 张
Instructions not available
This final image is one of my all time favourite images from Flickr. Not only is this paper crane folded so well but the photograph is absolutely fantastic too.
Crane, Designed by Roman Diaz and Daniel Naranjo and Folded by Emre Ayaroglu
Diagrams available in #1 Origami for Interpreters
We’ve barely scratched the service when it comes to origami birds so you can definitely count on many more bird themed posts in the future.
Some of these birds aren’t too difficult to fold so if you give them a try post a photo in the comments so we can take a look.
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