Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 340

European Storm-Petrel

Printed “Least Stormy-Petrel”

Plate 340 of Audubon's The Birds of America: European Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Least Stormy-Petrel”

Male, 1. Female, 2.

Modern identification

European Storm-Petrel

Hydrobates pelagicus

  • Certain
  • Northern Storm-Petrels · Hydrobatidae

Why

Audubon's “Least Stormy-Petrel” is today's European Storm-Petrel

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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