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Two Sterna Minuta (Least Tern) birds, one with a black head and blue-white body, the other with a speckled black, white, and gray body, and white belly, both in flight.
Least Tern
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Least Tern

Artist John James Audubon (American, 1785 - 1851)
Date1839-1844
MediumLithograph, hand colored
DimensionsSheet size: 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (26 x 15.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Dr. Orrin Lippoff
Object number2012.55.6
Visual DescriptionTwo Sterna Minuta (Least Tern) birds, one with a black head and blue-white body, the other with a speckled black, white, and gray body, and white belly, both in flight. Plate 439 from volume 7 of "Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories", Ocatavo Edition, New York and Philadelphia: J. J. Audubon and J.B. Chevalier, 1839-1844.
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