Printed on the plate
“Winter Hawk”
Modern identification
Buteo lineatus
- Certain
- A variant
- Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae
Why
Audubon's “Winter Hawk” (Falco hyemalis), figured as a species, is a young Red-shouldered Hawk; its main plate is 56.
Sources
audubon.org; Wikimedia Commons
Who made the plate
Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon. F. R. S. F. L. S.Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell.
- John James Audubon drew
- Robert Havell Jr. engraved, printed and coloured
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