Digital Collections | AMNH - Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Wilson's American Ornithology

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Carolina parrot, Canada flycatcher, hooded flycatcher, and green black capped flycatcher from Wilson's American ornithology

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Passenger pigeon, blue mountain warbler, and hooded warbler from Wilson's American Ornithology

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Yellow crowned heron, great heron, American bittern, and least bittern from Wilson's American ornithology

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Black Skimmer from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands

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Carolina Parakeet by Alexander Wilson, from American Ornithology, Philadelphia, 1808-1814

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Belted kingfisher, black and yellow warbler, Blackburnian warbler, autumnal warbler, and water thrush from Wilson's American ornithology

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Common Nighthawk from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands

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Woodpeckers: ivory-billed, pileated, and red-headed by Alexander Wilson, Plate 29 from American Ornithology

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Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus Principalis, from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Island

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Map depicting British, French and Spanish colonies from Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands

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Cloven-feathered Dove, Drepanoptila Holosericea, from Knip's Les pigeons

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Kingfisher and Warblers, with pond and mill in distance by Alexander Wilson, engraved by A. Lawson, American Ornithology, vol. 3

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Cedar bird, Redbellied woodpecker, Yellow throated flycatcher, Purple finch from American Ornithology by Wilson

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Cover of Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology"

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The redbreast European Robin, Erithacus rubecula, from Bewick's A history of British birds

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Carolina parrot, painting by Wilson Alexander, American Ornithology

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Copper plate used in the first edition of Wilson's American ornithology

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Various birds from Nozeman's Nederlandsche vogelen

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Eggs of the Common Murre, Uria aalge (left,) and Razorbill, Alca torda (right,) from Capen's Oology of New England

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Rail and woodcock, copper plate from Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology," Vol. 6, No. 48

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