Printed on the plate
“Snowy Heron, or White Egret”
Male adult Spring plumage. | Rice Plantation South Carolina.
Modern identification
Egretta thula
- Certain
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Audubon's “Snowy Heron or White Egret” is today's Snowy Egret
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. 1835.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
