Heavy-footed moa described by Richard Owen in 1856
John Cassin publishes Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America.
Léon Olphe-Galliard takes part in the second congress of Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft at Gothen in Germany, where he meets Prince Lucien Bonaparte, and other scientists.
Johan August Wahlberg killed by a wounded elephant while exploring the headwaters of the Limpopo River.
Birds described in 1856 include kea, Brewer's sparrow, western bronze-naped pigeon, yellow-spotted barbet, barred parakeet,
In October the red-necked nightjar occurred in Britain.
Marc Athanase Parfait Oeillet Des Murs publishes the ornithological section of Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Vénus in collaboration with Florent Prévost.
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen joins the Great Trigonometric Survey of India .
Robert Swinhoe makes an "adventurous" visit to the camphor districts of Formosa
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John Gould The birds of Australia; Supplement 1851–69. 1 vol. 81 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter
John Gould The birds of Asia; 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers:H. C. Richter and W. Hart
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Limpopo River. Birds described in1856 include kea, Brewer's sparrow, western bronze-naped pigeon, yellow-spotted barbet, barred parakeet, In October the...
expedition. Birds described in 1855 include Tickell's brown hornbill, Tristan thrush, robust white-eye, sapphire quail-dove, William John Swainson and Louis...
Saint-Hilaire, in collaboration with Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Émile Blanchard, Paris : P. Bertrand, 1857 Expeditions 1857–1860 SMS Novara Ornithology directed...
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Orders Gruiformes and Ciconiiformes established. Adolphe Delattre and Johann Friedrich Naumann die in this year. Italian bird collector Matteo Botteri...
commerce et l'agriculture. Jean-Baptiste Bailly begins publishing an Ornithology of Savoy (1853-1854) Charles Lucien Bonaparte 1853. Notes sur les collections...
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lxxiv. p. 1030, and Annales des Sciences Naturelles xvi. art. 2. [A resume of the principal discoveries made since 1856in fossil birds, which the author'...
on in the hope of producing a magnum opus on the birds of India, he abandoned ornithologyand gifted his collection to the Natural History Museum in London...
country and regional avifaunas Gives an insight into faunistic bird studies in the years 1980 to date. List of years inbirdingandornithology Science in the...
Oology (or oölogy), (/oʊˈɒlədʒi/), is a branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, nests and breeding behaviour. The word is derived from the Greek oion...
The year 1856in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. First remains of Neanderthal Man found in the Neandertal Valley...
interested in the department of ornithologyand procured a collection of over 25,000 birds. The Academy had the largest ornithological collection in the United...
of Birds (RSPB) and the British Trust for Ornithology 75% decrease in the Great Skua and a 25% reduction in Northern Gannets Backyard poultry production...
of the Birds of Europe, Including all the Species Inhabiting the Western Palearctic Region is a nine-volume ornithological book published in parts between...
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vols., 1836) and A History of British Birds featuring 564 original engravings (in 3 vols., first ed. 1843, second ed. 1845, third ed. 1856). The latter...
Bonaparte then set about studying the ornithology of the United States and updating Wilson's Ornithology or History of the Birds of the United States. The revised...
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The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 366 hummingbird species in family Trochilidae, and distributes them among 112 genera...
longirostris (Pelzeln, 1856) and F. l. endoecus (Cory, 1919). The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society (SACC) treats...
scientific ornithology under Hugh Edwin Strickland. In 1851 he began to study law and was admitted a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. In1856 he travelled...
on birdsand zoology and helped establish the Blacker-Wood collection in zoology andornithology at the McGill University Library. Wood was born in Wellington...
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes 352 species in family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves. They are distributed among 50 genera...
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