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Historical bird plates

Folios

Audubon, The Birds of America
Gould, The Birds of Europe
Gould, The Birds of Australia
Gould, The Birds of Asia
Gould, The Birds of Great Britain

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Plates / Species / Great Egret

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns · Ardeidae · Pelecaniformes

Great Egret

Ardea alba

4 plates in 4 folios.

Audubon, 1827–38Plate 386“White Heron”
Europe, 1832–37Plate 276“Great Egret”
Australia, 1840–69Volume VI, plate 56“Australian Egret”
Britain, 1862–73Volume IV, plate 22“Great White Egret, or White 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