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An American Flamingo standing in its soft S-curve, rendered in a contemporary Audubon-inspired natural-history style on archival paper. A warm shot of coral and pink for a coastal home or a room that wants colour, and a cheerful gift for the bird lover. Framed and unframed, from $39.
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.
Printed on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308gsm.
One leg drawn up, the long neck folded into a soft S-curve. Phoenicopterus ruber stands in the way it always stands, unhurried, on a pale parchment ground that gives the pink nowhere to hide. The Audubon-style palette takes the coral and deepens it toward the wing, sets the black flight feathers against the rose, and lets the colour run. It is warm and theatrical and entirely exact.
The American Flamingo is the most deeply coloured of the world’s six flamingo species. The pink is not pigment in the conventional sense. It is dietary. Carotenoid compounds absorbed from brine shrimp, algae, and small crustaceans accumulate in the feathers during each moult. A bird fed a carotenoid-free diet in captivity loses its colour within a single moult cycle. The flamingo builds its palette from the chemistry of the hypersaline lagoons it feeds in. The pinker the bird, the better and longer it has been eating.
Standing 120 to 145 centimetres tall, the flamingo feeds with its head literally upside down, the bent bill entering the water the wrong way round, the tongue acting as a pump to draw water through fine bony lamellae that filter out prey. The bill’s distinctive downward kink makes this inversion possible. No other North American bird is built to eat this way.
A flamingo hatches grey. Over roughly three years it eats itself pink. That slow accumulation, season by season, from the chemistry of a shallow Caribbean lagoon, is what this plate records.
A fine-art study in the tradition of Audubon.
Full field guide: /species/american-flamingo/
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 24x30 inches) 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.
