Belted Kingfisher Fine Art Bird Print by John James Audubon

An archival premium Quality art Print of The Belted Kingfisher by John James Audubon for sale by Brandywine General Store. This blue bird was picture or plate number 77 in Audubon's great ornithology book, The Birds of America, the first Havell edition. The painting shows three specimens of this beautiful blue bird, two females and one male. The birds are situated along a wetlands area in some southern location, two are perched on stumps and one of the kingfishers has a fish sticking out of her mouth, it looks like she is going to swallow the fish whole for her supper. We have made the sky blue in behind the birds, in the original Audubon painting, the sky was white and it has considerably yellowed over the 175 years since the illustration was produced in Birds of America. Mr. Audubon describes the Belted Kingfisher thus "The Belted Kingfisher!--Now, kind reader, were I infected with the desire of giving new names to well-known objects, you may be assured that, notwithstanding the part