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Audubon, The Birds of America
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Gould, The Birds of Asia
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Plates / Species / Black-crowned Night Heron

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae · Pelecaniformes

Black-crowned Night Heron

Nycticorax nycticorax

3 plates in 3 folios.

Audubon, 1827–38Plate 236“Night Heron, or Qua bird”
Europe, 1832–37Plate 279“Common Night Heron”
Britain, 1862–73Volume IV, plate 26“Night-Heron”

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Every plate of five nineteenth-century bird folios, identified to modern species. The tables are CC0; the plates are in the public domain.

Gould scans: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Havell scans: courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing.

Cite: Riley, W. Historical bird plates: modern identifications. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.22964828