Printed on the plate
“Brasilian Caracara Eagle”
Modern identification
Caracara plancus
- Certain
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Audubon's “Brasilian Caracara Eagle” is today's Crested Caracara
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.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
