Printed on the plate
“Iceland, or Jer Falcon”
Modern identification
Falco rusticolus
- Certain
- A variant
- Falcons and Caracaras · Falconidae
Why
Audubon's “Iceland, or Jer Falcon” (Falco islandicus) is the white morph of today's Gyrfalcon, which he figured as its own species; the dark Labrador Falcon is plate 196.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved. Printed and Coloured by R. Havell, 1837.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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