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Fine-art Wild Turkey plate in the Audubon style. The bird that opened Birds of America.
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.
Plate One. When Audubon began The Birds of America, the Wild Turkey came first. A bird big enough to fill the largest paper ever printed, and grand enough to deserve it.
Meleagris gallopavo is North America’s own. The body looks brown from across a field and turns to bronze, copper and green the moment the light moves. The colour is structural, built from the way each feather scatters light, so the bird changes as it walks. The bare head shifts red to blue with its mood. A mature tom carries a beard of modified feathers from his breast and stands the better part of a metre tall.
Benjamin Franklin thought it the more respectable bird, native and brave, where the eagle was, in his words, of bad moral character. The turkey lost that argument and won the continent anyway. Hunted to near-collapse by the early twentieth century, it was brought back by careful restoration until it now walks woodland edges in every mainland state.
Drawn in the Audubon tradition, where the weight of a bird’s history is carried by the accuracy of its line.
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.
