Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 248

Pied-billed Grebe

Printed “American Pied-billed”

Plate 248 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
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Printed on the plate

“American Pied-billed”

Modern identification

Pied-billed Grebe

Podilymbus podiceps

  • Certain
  • Grebes · Podicipedidae

Why

Audubon's “American Pied-bill Dobchick” is today's Pied-billed Grebe

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.

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