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Six More Audubon Birds in Arts & Crafts Frames — Owls, an Extinct Pigeon, and a Mystery Eagle

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Six more from the Audubon Arts & Crafts series — the Audubon plates, which are in the public domain, are courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing. I framed them in new decorative Arts & Crafts borders. This batch turned up some of the more interesting historical footnotes so far: a genuine ornithological mystery, an extinct species, and a scientific name that's since been reassigned to an entirely different bird.

Audubon's Barred Owl perched on a branch beside a grey squirrel, framed in a rich Arts and Crafts border of golden acanthus leaves
Barred Owl — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 46, No. 10. Common name unchanged, but Audubon's scientific name (Strix nebulosa) now belongs to the Great Gray Owl; the Barred Owl's correct modern name is Strix varia.
A pair of Chestnut-sided Warblers perched among wild rose blossoms, from Audubon's original plate, framed in a deep green Arts and Crafts border
Chestnut-Sided Warbler — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 59, No. 12. Common name unchanged; modern scientific name is Setophaga pensylvanica.
A pair of Great Horned Owls perched together on a branch, Audubon's original plate framed in a lush Arts and Crafts border of green acanthus scrollwork
Great Horned Owl — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 61, No. 13. Common name unchanged; modern scientific name is Bubo virginianus.
A pair of Passenger Pigeons perched together on a branch, from Audubon's plate, framed in a deep green Arts and Crafts border
Passenger Pigeon — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 62, No. 13. Modern scientific name Ectopistes migratorius. Once numbering in the billions, the species is now extinct — the last individual died in captivity in 1914.
Audubon's Summer Red Birds perched among wild muscadine grapevine, vivid red and yellow plumage framed in an olive-toned Arts and Crafts border
Summer Tanager (Summer Red Bird) — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 44, No. 9. Now known as the Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra).
Audubon's Bird of Washington, a large dark eagle perched on a rocky outcrop, framed in an olive-toned Arts and Crafts border of gold lotus flowers
Bald Eagle (Bird of Washington) — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 43, No. 3. One of Audubon's genuine ornithological mysteries — he described it as a new eagle species, but no specimen has ever been found. Modern consensus holds it was almost certainly a misidentified immature Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).

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