Animals and birds
These illustrations and photographs are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
Just select the collection you are interested in and have a look at the thumbnail images.
Most of the illustrations are available in both full-colour versions and in black and white.
Copyright
You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright. All we ask is that you don't sell them and you credit LTS when you use them. For full details, please see the copyright statement.
British birds
Eighteen coloured illustrations of wild birds, from blue-tits to buzzards.
British animals
Native animals like foxes and hedgehogs, and particularly Scottish animals such as red deer, pine martens, wildcats and salmon.
The prehistoric world
Scenes, people and animals from the prehistoric world including crannogs, standing stones, woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed cats.
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs never fail to fascinate pupils. All the favourites, plus a few lesser-known species and even a paleontologist at work, are included in this collection of 24 illustrations.
Wild animals
Travel the world with our collection of illustrations of wild animals and birds. Includes pandas, zebras, wolves and penguins, plus many more.
Farm animals
Use these animal pictures, including pigs, dogs, ducks, sheep and a hairy Highland cow, to enliven learning about the environment, animals and farming.
Pets
Lots and lots of pictures of common pets - in different poses, different colours and doing different activities such as playing and eating.
Animal photos
Photos of a variety of wild and domestic animals from home and abroad are available from the Modern Foreign Languages Environment (MFLE).
Minibeasts and frogs
Forty-six coloured illustrations of minibeasts including bees, wasps, spiders, ants, snails and the various stages in the life-cycles of frogs and butterflies.
Natural habitats
Colourful and detailed illustrations of different natural habitats from around the world, complete with the typical plants and animals found there.
Seasons
Landscape pictures of a farmhouse and the countryside in different seasons, with lambs and daffodils in spring, a hot sunny day for summer, falling leaves and brambles in autumn and a robin in the snow for winter.
Copyright
These images are the copyright of Learning and Teaching Scotland and are provided as a royalty-free educational resource for educational use in Scotland. By downloading an image you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this licence.
You may copy, distribute and display an image, and make derivative works based on the image. Learning and Teaching Scotland must be credited as the source of the original image. You may not sell or permit third parties to sell or license an image. If you alter, transform, or build upon an image, you may distribute the resulting image only under a licence identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from Learning and Teaching Scotland.