Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 292

Great Crested Grebe

Printed “Crested Grebe”

Plate 292 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Crested Grebe”

Adult Male spring plumage, 1. Young first Winter.

Modern identification

Great Crested Grebe

Podiceps cristatus

  • Certain
  • Grebes · Podicipedidae

Why

Audubon's “Crested Grebe” is today's Great Crested Grebe

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.

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

The same bird on other plates