Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 375

Redpoll

Printed “Lesser Red-Poll”

Plate 375 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Lesser Red-Poll”

Male 1. Female 2. | Plant, Snow Berry. | Symphoricarpos Racemosus.

Modern identification

Redpoll

Acanthis flammea

  • Certain
  • Finches, Euphonias, and Allies · Fringillidae

Why

Audubon's “Lesser Red-Poll” is today's Redpoll

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. 1837.

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

The same bird on other plates