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Fine-art Eastern Bluebird plate in the Audubon style. The blue-backed, rust-breasted bird of open country.
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.
A male Sialia sialis at a nest box, rendered in the restrained palette of the old natural-history plate: cream ground, the deep blue back above a warm rust breast, the posture alert and still. This is the portrait variant, the single bird at the entrance, the composition centred and close.
The blue is worth dwelling on. It is not uniform. The head and back are a deeper cobalt; the wings carry it slightly differently in changing light. The old plate-makers understood this. They never made the blue flat.
Eastern Bluebirds are thrushes of open country across eastern North America, 16 to 21 centimetres long, hunting insects from low fence-post perches by dropping to the ground. The female is built the same way but dressed in grey-brown with blue in the wings and tail only. Together they raise two, sometimes three broods in a season.
The species came close to regional disappearance across the mid twentieth century. Old orchards cleared. Natural cavities lost. European Starlings filling what remained. The recovery came from citizen-science nest box trails, starting with a schoolteacher in Illinois in 1934. A 38-millimetre entrance hole admits a bluebird and excludes a Starling. That single measurement, replicated across thousands of boxes across the range, turned the population around.
A portrait of a bird that people decided to keep, painted in the tradition Audubon established.
Full field guide: /species/eastern-bluebird/
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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