Printed on the plate
“Labrador Falcon”
Male, 1. Female, 2. adult.
Modern identification
Falco rusticolus
- Certain
- A variant
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Audubon's “Labrador Falcon” (Falco labradora), which he named as a species, is the dark morph of today's Gyrfalcon; both figures are sooty brown. His white Gyrfalcon is a later plate.
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.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
