Printed on the plate
“Pigmy Curlew”
Adult Male, 1. Young, 2.
Modern identification
Calidris ferruginea
- Certain
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Audubon's “Curlew Sandpiper” (Tringa subarquata) is today's Curlew Sandpiper; audubon.org titles it “Pigmy Curlew”.
Sources
engraved title; Featherframe havell.yaml; 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, 1835.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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