Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 389

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Plate 389 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Red-Cockaded Woodpecker”

Males, 1. Female, 2.

Modern identification

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Leuconotopicus borealis

  • Certain
  • Woodpeckers · Picidae

Why

Audubon's “Red-Cockaded Woodpecker” is today's Red-cockaded Woodpecker

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.

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