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Fine-art Red-bellied Woodpecker print, Audubon-style, on archival paper. Unframed or framed.
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.
A flash of red along the crown. Melanerpes carolinus braced against oak bark, mid-climb, head tilted to work the surface. The Audubon-style palette gives it a warm cream ground and the deep brown of a winter trunk, and then the back: fine, even black-and-white barring from nape to tail, the pattern birders call the zebra back. Against all that, the scarlet runs unbroken from bill to nape on the male. The belly blush, the faint rose wash that named this bird, is pressed against the bark and barely visible. The field mark that matters is always the head.
The Red-bellied Woodpecker carries a tongue that can extend nearly two inches past the tip of its bill, barbed and coated in sticky saliva, able to hook a grub from a crevice the bill alone cannot reach. It is an extraordinary piece of anatomy for a bird that most people know only by its rolling churr coming down through the canopy.
It hides food too. Acorns and beechnuts wedged into bark furrows, fence posts, and any tight crevice it finds. Then it returns to them through winter. A bird that forages and stores and extends its tongue into dead wood, but was named for a belly wash that almost no one sees in the field. That is the small injustice of its common name.
The oak in this plate holds the bird the way the old natural-history plates held their subjects, steady and close, so the barring and the red can be properly studied.
A fine-art study in the tradition of Audubon.
Full field guide: /species/red-bellied-woodpecker/.
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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