Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 264

Northern Fulmar

Printed “Fulmar Petrel”

Plate 264 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Fulmar Petrel”

Male adult Summer plumage.

Modern identification

Northern Fulmar

Fulmarus glacialis

  • Certain
  • Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae

Why

Audubon's “Fulmar Petrel” is today's Northern Fulmar

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, 1835.

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

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