Printed on the plate
“Great White Heron”
Modern identification
Ardea herodias
- Certain
- Shown as a subspecies
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Audubon's “Great White Heron” is the white Florida form of today's Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias occidentalis; its main plate is 211
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
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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