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Snowy Owl Princeton Audubon Limited Edition Print
This portrait was based on a composition probably painted in 1829 on the East coast. Audubon gave these birds the only nocturnal setting found in The Birds of America. He used pencil to portray the owl's soft, downy feathers.
The breeding ground of the magnificent snowy owl (latin name Nyctea scandiaca) lies across northern Alaska and Canada, where the lemming is its staple food, supplemented by ptarmigan, fish and hare. A persistent hunter, it spends much time on lookouts such as banks, knolls, boulders and and dunes along the sea. Periodic epidemics decimate the lemmings and seem to account for the bird's southward flight, which gives Stateside birders a chance to see this large, white inhabitant of the tundra.
The print size is 26 1/4" x 39 1/4", with an image size of 26" x 39". It was produced in 1985 and is a fine quality Princeton Audubon Limited Edition.
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