Black Billed Cuckoo by John James Audubon art print
An archival premium Quality art Print of the Black Billed Cuckoo Bird by John James Audubon for sale by Brandywine General Store. The artist drew this bird for his ornithology book, The Birds of America. The pictures feature a male and female cuckoo in a blooming magnolia tree with the female about to catch a bee. The Cuckoo bird was plate or picture #32 in the first Havell edition of Birds of America. Coccyzuz Erythrophthalmus - Audubon says the following about this bird," I have not met with this species in the State of Louisiana more than half a dozen times; nor indeed have I seen it at all in the Western States, excepting that of Ohio, where I have occasionally observed an individual, apparently out of its usual range. Some of these individuals were probably bound for the Upper Lakes. The woody sides of the sea are the places to which this species usually resorts. It passes from the south early in March, and continues its route through Florida, Georgia, and all the other States ver