Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 315

Red Knot

Printed “Red-breasted Sandpiper”

Plate 315 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Red-breasted Sandpiper”

Summer Plumage 1. Winter 2.

Modern identification

Red Knot

Calidris canutus

  • Certain
  • Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

Audubon's “Red-breasted Sandpiper” is today's Red Knot

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.

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