Printed on the plate
“Yellow Shank”
Male Summer plumage | View in South Carolina.
Modern identification
Tringa flavipes
- Certain
- Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae
Why
Audubon's “Yellow Shank” is today's Lesser Yellowlegs
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, 1836.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.
