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Fine-art Mourning Dove pair plate in the Audubon style. Two soft fawn-grey doves, close on one branch.
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.
Two Zenaida macroura on a branch, close enough that the soft fawn-grey bodies touch at the shoulder. The plate shows the pair in the restrained palette of the old natural-history folios: cream ground, warm buff and dove-grey bodies, the neat black wing spots, a pink wash at the breast where the light comes in. The male, slightly brighter, carries a faint iridescent patch at the neck. He holds the higher perch.
Mourning Doves pair early. In the southern states, nesting can begin in February and continue into October - up to five or six broods in a year, each raised on crop milk, a protein-rich secretion produced in the crop of both parents. The pair feeds the chicks together. They stay through the season. A pair perched this close is not sentimental decoration; it is an accurate portrait of how the species actually lives.
The Mourning Dove is the most hunted gamebird in North America - more than 20 million harvested annually, according to Cornell’s Birds of the World - and remains abundant and Least Concern across a range that covers virtually all of the lower 48 states, southern Canada, Mexico, and Central America. Two birds on a branch is the ordinary face of that resilience.
The wings whistle on take-off: a dry, papery trill that alerts every nearby dove that something has moved. Here they are still.
Drawn in the tradition of Audubon, where a quiet moment between two birds is its own subject.
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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