Historical bird plates

Gould, The Birds of Europe · Plate 312, volume IV

Common Greenshank

Printed “Greenshank”

Plate 312 of Gould's The Birds of Europe: Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
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Printed on the plate

“Greenshank”

Totanus glottis

Engraved caption: Green Shank Totanus glottis (Bechst.)

Modern identification

Common Greenshank

Tringa nebularia

  • Certain
  • Checked against the engraved caption
  • Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

Greenshank

Sources

General List (vol. I); engraved caption on the leaf; crosswalk

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & on Stone by J. & E. Gould.Printed by C. Hullmandel.

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

The same bird on other plates