Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 31

Bald Eagle

Printed “White-headed Eagle”

Plate 31 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“White-headed Eagle”

Male. | Yellow Cat-fish.

Modern identification

Bald Eagle

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

  • Certain
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae

Why

Audubon's “White-headed Eagle” is today's Bald Eagle

Sources

Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature & Published by John J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured, by R. Havell,

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

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