Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 86

Red-tailed Hawk

Printed “Black Warrior”

Plate 86 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Black Warrior”

Modern identification

Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

  • Certain
  • Shown as a subspecies
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites · Accipitridae

Why

Audubon's “Black Warrior” (Falco harlani) is the Harlan's form of today's Red-tailed Hawk

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.

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