Bird Pattern

Make a seamless bird pattern from 10 motifs of our own: a songbird perched, a flying bird with its wings raised, a small bird on a leafy twig, a bird with a long forked tail gliding, a round chick, a nest with four eggs, a feather, a leaf sprig, a bird pecking with its head down and three birds in the distance. They are generic birds, not named species. Scatter them in a half-drop, brick, grid or tossed repeat, put them on checks, a diamond lattice or with little feathers at the corners, or run them in a border strip between rows of feathers, leaves or little birds. Pick a ground, a bird colour, a detail colour and a ground-pattern colour, then download a seamless SVG tile at real size, a full-size PDF with a motif key, a 300 DPI PNG or a background PNG at an exact screen size. Nothing is uploaded.

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How to make a bird pattern

1. Choose a preset, or pick a motif set and a repeat (half-drop, brick, grid, tossed or border strip).
2. For a grid, choose a ground (none, little feathers at the corners, a diamond lattice or checks) and its line width; for a border strip, choose the edges (feathers, leaves, little birds or rules).
3. Set the columns, rows, spacing, motif size, smallest gap, seed and (for tossed) the largest turn.
4. Pick the ground, bird, detail and ground-pattern colours.
5. Download the SVG tile, a background PNG, or the PDF; print at 100% and check the 1 in test square.

What you can use it for

• Fabric, cushion and wallpaper mock-ups (real-size tile)
• Wrapping paper, cards and spring party bags
• Border strips for shelf edges, classroom boards and scrapbook pages
• Phone, desktop and slide backgrounds (PNG at exact sizes)
• Stickers, labels and stamp planning
• Garden, spring and nature lesson themes

The 14 presets

#	Preset	Motif set	Repeat	Ground or edges	Tile
1	Birds, nests and feathers on cream, half-drop	All 10 motifs	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
2	Songbirds with little feathers at the corners, grid	Songbird perched only	Grid	Little feathers at the cell corners	5 × 5 in
3	Birds on leafy twigs on a diamond lattice, sage	Small bird on a leafy twig only	Grid	Diamond lattice	5 × 5 in
4	Round chicks on checks, grid	Round chick only	Grid	Checks	5 × 5 in
5	Blue on white, every motif, grid	All 10 motifs	Grid	None	5 × 5 in
6	Birds in a brick repeat, sky blue	Birds	Brick	None	5 × 5 in
7	Pastel garden: every motif, tossed	All 10 motifs	Tossed	None	5 × 5 in
8	Flying birds and flocks on pale sky, half-drop	In the sky	Half-drop	None	5 × 5 in
9	Light birds on dark green, grid	Birds	Grid	None	5 × 5 in
10	Border strip: songbirds between rows of feathers	Songbird perched only	Border strip	Row of feathers edges	6 × 1.7 in
11	Border strip: birds on leafy twigs between rows of leaves	Small bird on a leafy twig only	Border strip	Row of leaves edges	6 × 1.7 in
12	Border strip: round chicks between rows of little birds	Round chick only	Border strip	Row of little birds in the distance edges	6 × 1.7 in
13	Tiny feathers and little birds, ditsy print	Feathers and little birds	Tossed	None	3.6 × 3.6 in
14	Fabric scale: 20 cm repeat, diamond lattice	Birds	Grid	Diamond lattice	20 × 20 cm

Each preset only fills in the fields; change any setting afterwards.

The 10 bird motifs

Motif	Shapes	Symmetry (tested on every point)
Songbird perched	3 main + 6 detail shapes	one-sided
Flying bird, wings raised	4 main + 3 detail shapes	one-sided
Small bird on a leafy twig	3 main + 9 detail shapes	one-sided
Bird with a long forked tail, gliding	6 main + 3 detail shapes	one-sided
Round chick	6 main + 7 detail shapes	mirrored left to right
Nest with four eggs	1 main + 10 detail shapes	mirrored left to right
Feather	1 main + 1 detail shapes	one-sided
Leaf sprig	3 main + 3 detail shapes	one-sided
Bird pecking, head down	3 main + 9 detail shapes	one-sided
Three birds in the distance	2 main + 1 detail shapes	one-sided

All motifs are our own drawings. Page 2 of the PDF draws each motif used, large, in the pattern colours.

The mixed motif sets

Set	Motifs
All 10 motifs	songbird perched, flying bird, wings raised, small bird on a leafy twig, bird with a long forked tail, gliding, round chick, nest with four eggs, feather, leaf sprig, bird pecking, head down, three birds in the distance
Birds	songbird perched, flying bird, wings raised, small bird on a leafy twig, bird with a long forked tail, gliding, bird pecking, head down
In the sky	flying bird, wings raised, bird with a long forked tail, gliding, three birds in the distance
Garden	small bird on a leafy twig, nest with four eggs, feather, leaf sprig
Chicks and nests	round chick, nest with four eggs
Feathers and little birds	feather, three birds in the distance

Grounds and border edges

Ground or edge	What is drawn	Used with
Little feathers at the cell corners	Little feathers at the cell corners	Grid repeat
Diamond lattice	diagonal lines, a dot at every corner	Grid repeat
Checks	every second cell filled	Grid repeat
Row of feathers	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Row of leaves	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Row of little birds in the distance	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip
Rules and dots	Along the top and bottom of the strip	Border strip

Background sizes (first preset)

Background	Pixels	Repeats across × down
Phone	1170 × 2532 px	2.44 × 5.28
Phone	1080 × 1920 px	2.25 × 4
Desktop	1920 × 1080 px	4 × 2.25
Large screen	2560 × 1440 px	5.33 × 3
Square post	1080 × 1080 px	2.25 × 2.25

Which tool to use

You want	Use
Birds, nests, feathers and leaves as a seamless repeat or border strip	Bird Pattern (this page)
Fish, bubbles and shells as a repeat	Fish Pattern
A shape of your own as a repeat	SVG Pattern Generator
A shape cut as a stencil	Stencil Maker
Plain dots in a grid	Polka Dot Pattern Generator

To repeat a shape of your own, try the SVG Pattern Generator; to cut a shape as a stencil, the Stencil Maker; for plain dots, the Polka Dot Pattern Generator.

Frequently asked questions

Which bird motifs are there?

10: a songbird perched, a flying bird with its wings raised, a small bird on a leafy twig, a bird with a long forked tail gliding, a round chick, a nest with four eggs, a feather, a leaf sprig, a bird pecking with its head down and three birds in the distance. Each can be used on its own, or in the mixed sets.

Are these real bird species?

No. Each is a simple, generic bird (a round head, a beak, a body, wings and a tail), drawn from circles, ellipses, triangles and strokes; we do not claim any species, and none is a copy of a cartoon bird or a brand mark.

Can I make a bird border?

Yes. Choose Border strip as the repeat: one row of birds runs between two edge bands of feathers, leaves, little birds in the distance or plain rules, and the strip repeats left to right with no seam.

What is the difference between half-drop, brick, grid, tossed and border?

In a grid, the motifs sit in straight rows and columns. In a half-drop, every second column is moved down exactly half a cell; in a brick repeat, every second row is moved across exactly half a cell. Tossed is a half-drop where each motif is also turned by a seeded angle up to the largest turn you set. Border makes one row of motifs between two edge bands, as a strip for hems, ribbons and page edges. A half-drop or tossed repeat needs an even number of columns and a brick repeat an even number of rows; the maker says so if they do not.

Can the motifs overlap?

No. Each motif sits in the middle of its own square cell, and the maker refuses a size that would come closer than the smallest gap you set to the edge of its cell (or to the ground); it tells you the spacing needed. Our tests check every point of every motif against its cell and the ground.

Will the pattern repeat without a seam?

Yes. A motif or edge shape that runs over an edge of the repeat carries on from the opposite edge, so copies placed edge to edge join with no seam. Our tests check this two ways for every preset: each shape cut by an edge has its exact partner one repeat over in the same tile, and sampled colours match one repeat over.

Is the tile the exact size I set?

Yes. The SVG tile is written in inches or centimetres (the first preset is 5 in square: 4 cells of 1.25 in), and the PDF prints the pattern at full size with a 1 in test square.

Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.

Is anything uploaded?

No. Everything is drawn by JavaScript in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere.