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1801 in birding and ornithology
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John Latham publishes Supplement II for his series, A General Synopsis of Birds (1781–1801) in which he describes several species of birds for the first time, including the bell miner, the pallid cuckoo, and the African swamphen.
Jacques Barraband is commissioned to produce a series of watercolours of birds by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent begins a two-year expedition to explore Mauritius, Réunion, Madeira, Tenerife, and St. Helena.
The green mango (as Trochilus viridis) and Puerto Rican emerald (as Trochilus maugaeus) are first described by Louis Pierre Vieillot and Jean Baptiste Audebert.
Natural History Society of Nuremberg founded.
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