Double Crested Cormorant

Double Crested Cormorant

Print #35 features a species of water bird seen throughout the continental United States. The Double Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) has several distinct subspecies and are hot conservation topic due to government sanctioned culling to preserve salmon populations. They are best known as the birds who sun themselves on the edges of bodies of water by hanging their black wings open.

The original signed print featured an coastal adult that John James Audubon collected for his series “Birds of America”. Accurate representation inspired by Audubon’s original bird and naturalist print. Sized to match Harvell edition prints from the double elephant folio edition. Read Audubon’s journal about his encounters.

Edition of 120 signed and numbered prints, part of the “Resurrecting Audubon’s ‘Birds of America”. Specimen provided by Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Photograph by Lindsey Wohlman

Print – 20″ x 26″

Completed 2014

Learn more about Cormorants and their cousins at allaboutbirds