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Fine-art Barn Owl plate in the Audubon style. The pale, heart-faced owl of dusk and the rafters.
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 face fills the plate. Wide, white, and heart-shaped, a parabolic disc of stiff feathers arranged around dark eyes. Behind it, the back is golden buff washed with grey and finely speckled, the breast the colour of old ivory. This is the owl of barns and bell towers, rendered in the warm, unhurried palette of the Audubon tradition against a cream ground that gives the plumage room to glow.
Tyto furcata is found on every continent except Antarctica, and that range is not coincidence. The bird carries its hunting apparatus with it wherever open grassland meets a cavity large enough to nest in. Its left ear sits measurably higher on its skull than its right, a structural reorganisation that lets it triangulate sound in three dimensions. Combined with the facial disc, which funnels and resolves those sound waves like a living antenna, the owl can locate a vole moving under a foot of snow in total darkness. It does not need to see its prey. It does not need moonlight. It has something more precise than either.
The wingspan reaches 100 to 130 centimetres - a wingspan as wide as a tall man’s arm span on a bird that weighs under a kilogram. In low flight it looks almost white below, broad-winged, silent, a pale shape the field edge has always made room for.
This portrait plate places the bird exactly as the old folios did: full-faced, composed, given the still attention of a serious study. In the tradition of Audubon, made to last.
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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