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1829 in birding and ornithology
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The Trocaz pigeon is first described by Karl Heineken.Heineken C. Notice of some of the Birds of Madeira 1829 Edinburgh Journal of Science http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2504256 230 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Death of Juan Ignacio Molina, who provided the first European account of the birds of Chile, describing thirty-three species.Hellmayr Charles E. 1932 The Birds of Chile The Field Museum of Natural History Chicago Publication 308 19 https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/oca/Books2007-11/birdsofchile191hell/birdsofchile191hell.pdf
Death of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who was an early proponent of evolution, though his proposed mechanisms were largely incorrect.Burkhardt, Jr. Richard W. 2013 Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters Genetics 194 4 793 – 805 10.1534/genetics.113.151852 3730912
Auguste Drapiez publishes Résumé d'ornithologie ou d'histoire naturelle des oiseaux
Johann Georg Wagler writes descriptions of new bird species in Isis, oder Encyclopädische Zeitung published by Lorenz Oken Some are: the russet-throated puffbird, the golden-fronted woodpecker, the pinnated bittern, the chestnut-colored woodpecker, the brown jay, the intermediate egret and the ladder-backed woodpecker
George Ord retires from business to devote his time to ornithology.
1829-33 Admiral Sir Edward Belcher "Aetna " survey expedition to North and West Africa.
Julien François Desjardins, Charles Telfair, Wenceslas Bojer, and Jacques Delisse, take part in founding the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Île Maurice
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