Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 335

Short-billed Dowitcher

Printed “Red-breasted Snipe”

Plate 335 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Red-breasted Snipe”

Spring Plumage 1. Winter 2.

Modern identification

Short-billed Dowitcher

Limnodromus griseus

  • Certain
  • Sandpipers and Allies · Scolopacidae

Why

Audubon's “Red-breasted Snipe” is today's Short-billed Dowitcher

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, and Coloured by R. Havell, 1836.

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

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