Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 124

Wilson's Warbler

Printed “Green Black-capt Flycatcher”

Plate 124 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Wilson's Warbler (Cardellina pusilla)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Green Black-capt Flycatcher”

Male, 1. Female, 2. | Snake's-head. Chelone glabra.

Modern identification

Wilson's Warbler

Cardellina pusilla

  • Certain
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Green Black-capt Flycatcher” is today's Wilson's Warbler

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, London.

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