Andrew Smith begins publication of Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa (1838–50)
Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée publishes Entretiens sur la zoologie. Oiseaux in the Bibliothèque d'instruction populaire.
Death of Johann Gottlieb Fleischer
Death of Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
Foundation of Royal Zoological Museum of Amsterdam[1]
Foundation of Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
John Gould and his wife Elizabeth travel to Australia to work on The Birds of Australia. They are accompanied by John Gilbert.
Death of Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Suckow
James Edward Alexander publishes Expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa : Through the Hitherto Undescribed Countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras, Performed under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographic Society. 2 vols. – London : Henry Colburn, 1838. Waterhouse describes the bird species collected and two new species, the short-toed rock thrush and the white-tailed shrike.
Thomas Campbell Eyton publishes A Monograph on the Anatidae, Or Duck Tribe
Ongoing events
William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby with the co-operation of James Ebenezer Bicheno Illustrations of ornithology various publishers (Four volumes) 1825 and [1836–43]. Although issued partly in connection with the volume of plates, under the same title (at the time of issue), text and plates were purchasable separately and the publishers ... express the hope, also voiced by the author in his preface to the present work, that the text will constitute an independent work of reference. Vol. I was issued originally in 1825 [by A. Constable, Edinburgh], with nomenclature according to Temminck
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known for her work with Neotropical bird species. Koepcke was a well-respected authority in South American ornithologyand her work is still referenced today...
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melanocorys)". In Poole, A. (ed.). The Birds of North America Online. Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. "Lark Bunting". All About Birds. The Cornell Lab...
(Anseranatidae)", in Billerman, Shawn M.; Keeney, Brooke K.; Rodewald, Paul G.; Schulenberg, Thomas S. (eds.), Birds of the World, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, doi:10...
interested in the department of ornithologyand procured a collection of over 25,000 birds. The Academy had the largest ornithological collection in the United...
naturalist Imre Frivaldszky in1838 who described a Eurasian collared dove. The type locality is Plovdiv in Bulgaria. It is now placed in genus Streptopelia that...
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first curator of birdsand mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, and the first head of that museum's Department of Ornithology. He is remembered...
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