Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 267

Long-tailed Jaeger

Printed “Arctic Yager”

Plate 267 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Arctic Yager”

Modern identification

Long-tailed Jaeger

Stercorarius longicaudus

  • Certain
  • Skuas and Jaegers · Stercorariidae

Why

Audubon's “Arctic Yager” is today's Long-tailed 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. 1835.

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

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