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1852 in birding and ornithology
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Bird species new to science described in the
thumb|230px|The lovely fairywren, first described by John Gould in 1852Gould John On New Australian Birds in the Collection of the Zoological Society of London Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1850 18 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59278845 Biodiversity Heritage Library 277
Death of William Thompson, a pioneer of ornithology in Ireland.Hutchinson Clive Nature in Ireland: a Scientific and Cultural History Bird Study in Ireland Foster, J.W. Chesney, H.C.G. 1998 McGill - Queen's Press 262 – 282 9780773518179
Death of Louis François Auguste Souleyet, a prominent malacologist and the namesake for the streak-headed woodcreeper.Janssen, A.W. Seapy, R.R. 2009 On the identity and distribution of Atlanta inflata Gray, 1850 (Gastropoda, Pterotracheoidea, Atlantidae) in the world’s oceans Basteria 73 139 – 157 https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/597371/BAST2009073004006.pdfJobling James A. 2010 The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names Christopher Helm London 978-1-4081-2501-4 360
Paul Gervais describes the Eocene bird genus Ludiortyx
Sulawesi pygmy woodpecker described by Alfred Malherbe
Death of Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
August Carl Eduard Baldamus, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Johann Wilhelm von Müller and Johann Friedrich Naumann publish Verzeichnis der Vögel Europa's. als Tausch-Catalog eingerichtet in Stuttgart. In this year also Müller began work on the illustrated book Beiträge zur Ornithologie Afrikas (1853–1870),
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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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