How to Remove Birds from Sky Photos

Clean Skies Without Reshooting

You frame the perfect landscape—golden hour light, dramatic clouds, a stunning horizon—and then notice a flock of birds scattered across the sky. Or a single seagull right in the center of your composition. Manually clone-stamping each bird out of a gradient sky is tedious and often leaves visible artifacts. AI handles this in one step, removing every bird while preserving the natural sky texture.

What You Can Clean from the Sky

• Single birds or entire flocks
• Seagulls, pigeons, crows, and other common photobombers
• Distant specks that look like sensor dust but are birds
• Birds silhouetted against sunset or sunrise skies
• Airplanes and contrails crossing the frame
• Drones or other small flying objects

How AI Sky Cleanup Works

The AI identifies objects in the sky that don't belong to the natural scene—birds, planes, drones, or debris. For each object, it analyzes the surrounding sky color, cloud patterns, and light gradient, then fills the space with a seamless continuation. The result is a sky that looks exactly as it would without the birds, including consistent cloud edges and color transitions.

A Landscape Photographer's Best Friend

Coastal shots almost always include seagulls. Mountain landscapes catch hawks circling at altitude. Urban skylines have pigeons. Rather than waiting for a clear moment that may never come, shoot your composition when the light is right and clean the sky in post. This approach saves time on location and gives you creative control over the final image.

Tips for Flawless Results

For a few large birds, 'remove the birds from the sky' works perfectly. For dozens of tiny specks across the frame, the same prompt handles them all in one pass. If the AI misses a distant speck, follow up with 'also remove the small dark spot in the upper right.' For birds partially overlapping a building or tree, specify: 'remove only the birds in the sky, keep the ones perched on the railing.'