Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 269

Common Greenshank

Printed “Greenshank”

Plate 269 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Greenshank”

View of St. Augustine & Spanish Fort East Fl.

Modern identification

Common Greenshank

Tringa nebularia

  • Certain
  • Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

Audubon's “Greenshank” is today's Common Greenshank

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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