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Fine-art American Flamingo plate in the Audubon style. The deep-pink wader, neck folded in Audubon's own composition.
Each print is made to order. You can cancel within 12 hours of ordering, after which it goes into production and cannot be cancelled. Secure checkout via Stripe.
The neck curves low, the bill angled toward the water that isn’t there. Audubon bent the flamingo into that S-shape to fit the double-elephant folio, and the pose became iconic, a form so distinctly right that few who have seen the original plate forget it. This plate keeps the same composition: deep rose on cream, the black flight feathers folded tight, the hooked bill pale at the tip and dark where it bends.
Phoenicopterus ruber, the American Flamingo, stands 120 to 145 centimetres tall - the most deeply coloured of the world’s six flamingo species. That colour is not born with the bird. A chick hatches grey and eats its way pink over three years, absorbing carotenoid pigments from the brine shrimp and algae it filters from hypersaline lagoons. Stop the diet and the colour fades within a single moult. The flamingo builds its palette from the chemistry of the places it lives.
The species feeds upside-down: when the head drops to the water, the bill enters inverted, and a muscular tongue pumps water through rows of fine bony filters. It has monopolised a food source by evolving the only tool suited to harvest it.
In the tradition of Audubon’s plate 431, where the flamingo fills the page with nothing but neck and purpose.
Each print is made to order through our global print partner and shipped from the production lab nearest you - allow a few days for printing plus local tracked delivery.
Each print is made to order. You can change or cancel it within 12 hours of ordering. After that it goes into production and can no longer be cancelled, though we will always put right anything that arrives damaged.
The available sizes (up to A2) and any framed finishes are shown above. Choose yours before checkout.
Yes - each print is sized to fit standard frames. Framed finishes are offered on many prints.
Because each print is made to order, contact us within 14 days of delivery and we will put it right.
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