Printed on the plate
“Blue Crane, or Heron”
1. Adult Male spring plumage. 2. Young second Year. | View near Charlestone S. C.
Modern identification
Egretta caerulea
- Certain
- Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae
Why
Audubon's “Blue Crane or Heron” is today's Little Blue Heron
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.
