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Fine-art Roseate Spoonbill plate in the Audubon style. The pink wader of the southern coast, with its unmistakable spoon bill.
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 Roseate Spoonbill perched on a branch, the deep rose of the wing deepening to crimson at the shoulder, the grey spatulate bill held low. The Audubon-style plate gives it a pale, soft ground and the careful observation of a bird studied at close range. The bill is the first thing any naturalist notices: long, grey, and flattened into a broad spoon at the tip, a shape shared by no other wading bird in the Americas.
Platalea ajaja is the only spoonbill native to the Western Hemisphere. It stands over two and a half feet tall and ranges from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana down through Florida, across the Caribbean, and deep into South America. The pink runs from pale blush at the breast to scarlet at the shoulder. Adult birds wear bare greenish skin on the dome of the head, featherless, a detail that always startles people who expect a bird this striking to be striking everywhere.
The colour is dietary. Carotenoid compounds absorbed from the crustaceans and small fish the spoonbill filters from shallow lagoons accumulate in its feathers through each moult. The bird builds its own palette from what it eats in the salt marshes and tidal flats it calls home.
This plate holds the bird at rest, branch-perched, where the full sequence of colour from shoulder to wingtip can be properly read. The Audubon tradition at its most patient.
Full field guide: /species/roseate-spoonbill/
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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