Fulmar Petrel Fine Art Bird Print by John James Audubon

An archival premium Quality art Print of the Fulmar Petrel by John James Audubon for sale by Brandywine General Store. The water bird was plate or picture number 264 in the first Havell edition of The Birds of America. Mr. Audubon shows a lone male specimen of this bird in a desolate seascape setting. The Fulmar Petrel is perched on a rock in the middle of the ocean with nothing but water all around. The color of the subject in this ornithology print is white, brown and gray with bright yellow legs and beak. Procellaria Glacialis - Mr. Audubon describes the Fulmar Petrel in Birds of America as follows: "Though not a large bird, the Fulmar is possessed of considerable strength, and has a powerful and sustained flight. In autumn and winter it is seen on our eastern coasts, from which it retires early in summer, to betake itself to the northern retreats in which it rears its young. I have never seen it farther south than Long Islan, but I have often found it on the banks of Newfoundland,