1833 in birding and ornithology

none May 2026 Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|René Louiche Desfontaines better known as a botanist but posthumous author of Desfontaines's Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux des côtes de Barbarie Death of Félix Louis L'Herminier Samuel Tickell describes new birds from India in the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal. These include the jungle owlet, Tickell's thrush and the thick-billed flowerpecker. Richard Owen dissects a specimen of a great hornbill noting highly pneumatized bones, with hollow air cavities extending to the tips of their wing bones. Brian Houghton Hodgson becomes British Resident in Kathmandu William Jardine unites the hermit hummingbirds in a new subfamily the Phaethornithinae Death of René Louiche Desfontaines Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied expedition to the Interior of North America. One of the birds discovered was the pinyon jay. Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger theorises that dark pigments increase in races of animals living in warm and humid habitats in a work entitled Das Abändern der Vögel durch Einfluss des Klima's Category:Birding and ornithology by year Category:1833 in science