Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 95

Northern Yellow Warbler

Printed “Blue-eyed yellow Warbler”

Plate 95 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Northern Yellow Warbler (Setophaga aestiva)
Full resolutionCourtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Printed on the plate

“Blue-eyed yellow Warbler”

Plant Wisterea.

Modern identification

Northern Yellow Warbler

Setophaga aestiva

  • Certain
  • New World Warblers · Parulidae

Why

Audubon's “Blue-eyed yellow Warbler” (Sylvia aestiva) is today's Northern Yellow Warbler; eBird 2025 splits Yellow Warbler, and the binomial stays with Mangrove Yellow Warbler.

Sources

engraved title; Featherframe havell.yaml; audubon.org

Who made the plate

Drawn from Nature and Published by John J. Audubon F. R. S's. L. & E. F. L. S. &c.Engraved, Printed & Coloured by R. Havell Junr. London. 1830.

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

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