Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 274

Willet

Printed “Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet”

Plate 274 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet”

Male Adult Spring plumage 1. Female Adult Winter plumage 2.

Modern identification

Willet

Tringa semipalmata

  • Certain
  • Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

Audubon's “Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet” is today's Willet

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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