Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Great Britain · Volume I, plate 12

Gyrfalcon

Printed “Iceland Falcon (young)”

Volume I, plate 12 of Gould's The Birds of Great Britain: Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
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Printed on the plate

“Iceland Falcon (young)”

Falco islandus

Engraved caption: FALCO ISIANDUS, J.EGmel.

Modern identification

Gyrfalcon

Falco rusticolus

  • Certain
  • A variant
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae

Why

Gould's Falco islandus, the Iceland Falcon, in young dress: the Icelandic population of the Gyrfalcon, as on I.11.

Sources

engraved caption; Gould's text; Birds of Europe plate 19

Who made the plate

J. Wolf & H. C. Richter, del et lith.Walter, Imp.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

The same bird on other plates