Audubon Aquatint, Rough-legged Falcon, Plate 166

AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851).
Rough-legged Falcon, Plate 166.
Aquatint engraving with original hand color.
London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838.
38 3/8” x 25 3/4” sheet.

Comparables: Arader Galleries, 2018 - $5,715; Arader Galleries, 2014 - $4,270.

"They alight on trees to roost, but appear so hungry or indolent at all times, that they seldom retire to rest until after dusk. Their large eyes indeed seem to indicate their possession of the faculty of seeing at that late hour. I have frequently put up one, that seemed watching for food at the edge of a ditch, long after sunset. Whenever an opportunity offers, they eat to excess, and, like the Turkey Buzzards and Carrion Crows, disgorge their food, to enable them to fly off. The species is more nocturnal in its habits than any other Hawk found in the United States." - (Audubon's Ornithological Biography, 1831).

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