Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 140

Pine Warbler

Printed “Pine Creeping Warbler”

Plate 140 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Pine Creeping Warbler”

Male, 1. Female, 2. | Yellow Pine.

Modern identification

Pine Warbler

Setophaga pinus

  • Certain
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Pine Creeping Warbler” is today's Pine 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, 1832.

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

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