1841 in birding and ornithology

none August 2026Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|White-quilled rock-pigeon described by John Gould in The Birds of Australia in 1841 Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot describe the Auckland Islands merganserVerry Alexander Rawlence Nic 2024-05-19 Ancient DNA from an extinct native duck reveals how far birds flew to make New Zealand home http://theconversation.com/ancient-dna-from-an-extinct-native-duck-reveals-how-far-birds-flew-to-make-new-zealand-home-229117 2025-09-20 The Conversation en-US Death of Jean Victoire Audouin1941-11-01 Jean Victor Audoin (1797–1841) https://www.nature.com/articles/148562b0 Nature en Nature Publishing Group 148 3758 562–562 10.1038/148562b0 1476-4687 subscription Death of Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux Edward Blyth takes the position of curator at the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Elizabeth Gould completes the bird illustrations for Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire becomes a professor (birds and mammals) at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle Salomon Müller and Hermann Schlegel describe the lesser fish eagle in Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Nederlandsch Overzeesche Bezittingen door de leden natuurkundige commissie in Indie andere Schrijvers. Uitgegeven op last van den Koning. Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson expedition to Niger. Thomson, an ornithologist, was accompanied by Louis Fraser.Allen William http://archive.org/details/b33279317_0001 A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty's government to the River Niger, in 1841, under the command of Captain H.D. Trotter, R.N. By Captain William Allen, and T.R.H. Thomson. Pub. with the sanction of the Colonial office and the Admiralty 1848 London : R. Bentley Wellcome Library Heinrich Gätke, German ornithologist and artist, moves to Heligoland as secretary to the British Governor and begins a long study of the birds there. Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Berge publishes Die Fortpflanzung europäischer und aussereuropäischer Vögel. Ein Beitrag zur Naturgeschichte derselben (Stuttgart, L.F. Rieger, 1840–1841). Ongoing events The Birds of Australia birds first described in this work in 1841 include the rock parrot, the topknot pigeon, the red-backed kingfisher, the red-browed treecreeper, the white-quilled rock pigeon, the little curlew and the black stilt 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 References Category:Birding and ornithology by year Category:1841 in science