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Audubon-style fine-art print of a Wood Duck on a lily pad pond, on archival cotton rag. A4 to A2, 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.
He floats among the lily pads as if resting between two different ways of being extraordinary. The drake’s head burns iridescent green and purple, cut by two fine white lines, the red eye set above a chestnut breast flecked in white. Still water below, soft sage in the pads. The plate holds him at the moment the light is exactly right.
Aix sponsa is the most ornate duck in North America, and one of the very few that nests in tree cavities. The female lays a clutch of 9 to 14 eggs, sometimes more, in an old woodpecker hole or a rotted limb scar that can sit 15 metres above the ground. The day after hatching, the ducklings climb to the opening on claws built for bark and jump. They cannot fly. They will not fly for two months. They fall the whole way and they are fine. Then they paddle to their mother.
By 1900 the species was nearly gone, market hunting and swamp clearance having reduced it to a ghost of its range. What rescued it was specific: the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and, after that, ordinary people nailing wooden nest boxes to poles in the very wetlands where the old cavity trees had been cut. The North American population is now near 4.6 million. The bird came back on the strength of a law and a wooden box.
A plate in the tradition of Audubon, which gave the waterfowl of North America the same patient attention it gave the wading birds and the eagles.
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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