Printed on the plate
“Great Tern”
Male Spring Plumage.
Modern identification
Sterna hirundo
- Certain
- Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers · Laridae
Why
Audubon's “Great Tern” is today's Common Tern
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
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