Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 134

Blackburnian Warbler

Printed “Hemlock Warbler”

Plate 134 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Hemlock Warbler”

Modern identification

Blackburnian Warbler

Setophaga fusca

  • Certain
  • A variant
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Hemlock Warbler” (Wilson's Sylvia parus), figured as a species, is a young or female Blackburnian Warbler; its main plate is 135.

Sources

audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon, F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved. Printed & Coloured by R. Havell, London, 1832.

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The same bird on other plates