In honor of a just-for-fun contest I'm holding here at FAA, I opened this thread for all to post images of their bird paintings or post your favorite bird artist's work here. Do feel free to enter the contest too http://fineartamerica.com/contests/1-paintings-of-birds.html
I plan on sharing the contest to my bird loving friends on Facebook and G+ and encourage others to do the same.
Make sure the ones you enter into the contest are print ready or I will delete them, sorry. If they are blurry or not cropped well, it doesn't look good on you or those in the contest with you. See contest rules.
I have lots of bird pastels but your contest doesn't mention pastels only oils, acrylic,etc. Anyway, here is a pastel of a Carolina wren, the state bird of South Carolina.