Growing up in the steel mill corridor near Chicago, artist Lauren Levato Coyne was surrounded by waterbirds. They lived in the marshes and swamps, even as crisscrossing highways and railroads increasingly encroached upon their habitat. Levato Coyne drew on that landscape—“all the birds, the sounds, the smells”—while creating this portrait of the Black-crowned Night-Heron.
Audubon: The Black-crowned Night-Heron’s Unlikely Refuge
Jessica S. McKenzie 