Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 160

Carolina Chickadee

Printed “Carolina Titmouse”

Plate 160 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Carolina Titmouse”

Male, 1. Female, 2. | Supple-jack.

Modern identification

Carolina Chickadee

Poecile carolinensis

  • Certain
  • Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae

Why

Audubon's “Carolina Titmouse” is today's Carolina Chickadee

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, 1833.

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