Audubon Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Painting Playing Cards

Audubon Ivory - Billed Woodpeckers - Vintage Lithograph Print This beautiful vintage print showcases one of the most iconic lithographs by John James Audubon, featuring the Ivory-billed Woodpeckers. The print, from Birds of America Plate 66, captures these majestic birds, potentially extinct, perched on a dead tree branch. The male woodpecker is striking with its vibrant red crest, while both birds are focused on a small black bug climbing up the tree. The Ivory-billed woodpeckers were once among the largest and most striking woodpeckers in the world, with their distinctive black and white feathers and red markings. Sadly, this species is now believed to be extinct, with the last confirmed sightings in the southeastern United States in the early 20th century. Audubon's lithograph from 1827-1838 beautifully immortalises these remarkable birds, whose habitat was once deep within the virgin forests and remote swamplands of the southeastern U.S.