Bird of Washington (Audubon)

John James Audubon

Plate 11 of Birds of America by John James Audubon depicting Bird of Washington. Originally claimed by Audubon to be a different, significantly bigger, already very rare species, most subsequent ornithologists generally considered it was a misidentified juvenile Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus .

Credit

John James Audubon, The Birds of America

Licence

Public domain

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Nichora saves it at full iPhone resolution, cropped so the clock never covers the subject.