Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 253

Pomarine Jaeger

Printed “Jager”

Plate 253 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Jager”

Modern identification

Pomarine Jaeger

Stercorarius pomarinus

  • Certain
  • Skuas and Jaegers · Stercorariidae

Why

Audubon's “Jager” is today's Pomarine Jaeger

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.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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