Printed on the plate
“Manks Shearwater”
Male Bird.
Modern identification
Puffinus puffinus
- Certain
- Shearwaters and Petrels · Procellariidae
Why
Audubon's “Manks Shearwater” is today's Manx Shearwater
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.
