Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 118

Eastern Warbling Vireo

Printed “Warbling Flycatcher”

Plate 118 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Eastern Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Warbling Flycatcher”

Male, 1. Female, 2. | Swamp Magnolia. Magnolia glauca.

Modern identification

Eastern Warbling Vireo

Vireo gilvus

  • Certain
  • Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis · Vireonidae

Why

Audubon's “Warbling Flycatcher” is today's Eastern Warbling Vireo

Sources

Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon, F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed, & Coloured, by R. Havell.

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