Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 194

Boreal Chickadee

Printed “Canadian Titmouse”

Plate 194 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Boreal Chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Canadian Titmouse”

Male, 1. Female, 2. Young, 3.

Modern identification

Boreal Chickadee

Poecile hudsonicus

  • Certain
  • Tits, Chickadees, and Titmice · Paridae

Why

Audubon's “Canadian Titmouse” is today's Boreal 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 1834.

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