Great White Heron by John James Audubon Art Print
An archival premium Quality Art Print of the Great White Heron by John James Audubon with Key West Florida in the background for sale by Brandywine General Store. In this picture, Audubon shows a large white water bird, the Great White Heron setting on a bank with a view of Key West Florida, at this early point in United States History, Key West was still a sleepy little village with just a few new buildings showing. This heron has a colorful pink tinted colored fish with yellow stripes in its long narrow beak. Audubon painted this large white bird for his great ornithology book, The Birds of America in which this heron was plate or picture number 281 in the first Havell edition. Ardea Occidentalis - Mr. Audubon says the following about this large water bird "I am now about to present you with an account of the habits of the largest species of the Heron tribe hitherto found in the United States, and which is indeed remarkable not only for its great size, but also for the pure white of