Printed on the plate
“Black-Throated Diver”
Male 1. Female 2. Young in October. 3.
Modern identification
Gavia pacifica
- Certain
- Loons · Gaviidae
Why
Audubon's “Black-Throated Diver” is today's Pacific Loon
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.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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