Red -Winged Blackbird & Rusty Blackbird & Boblink

Louis Agassiz Fuertes ( 1874 – 1927 ) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist. After graduating from Cornell University he traveled across most of the United States and all over the world in his ornithological pursuits. He is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists
and has influenced well known wild life artists such as Roger Tory Peterson and Jorg Kuhn. While on a collecting expedition in Mexico with Frank Chapman, then curator of the American Museum of Natural History, Furtes discoverd a species of oriole. Chapman named it Icterus Fuertesi or Fuerte’s Oriole in honor of Fuertes. This print is of the adult male Rusty Blackbird in autumn and in spring and an immature in autumn and of a Red-Winged Balckbird male in autumn and in spring and a female and a Bobolink male and female. It is in good condition.