Ruff-Necked Hummingbird

by John James Audubon

Add a little bit of the brilliance of 19th-century American natural history to your personal collection. This wonderful fine art print displays John James Audubon’s well-known Ruff-necked Hummingbird (Plate 379) from his epic Birds of America series (1827-1839).

As Audubon noted, he used to call such tiny and highly independent birds “breathing gems” and “magic carbuncles of glowing fire.” This dynamic reproduction shows two male humming-birds in flight surrounded by a nesting female below. They are positioned around the blossoms of the spiderflower plant (Cleome heptaphylla).

The wonderful range of colors of this reproduction is represented by warm shades of copper, cinnamon, and emerald green that are highlighted against the fiery throat feathers of the male.