1827 in birding and ornithology

none August 2026 Bird species new to science described in the alt=Color illustration of a wild turkey from the 1820s|thumb|Wild Turkey, plate number one of Audubon's Birds of AmericaFirst part of Birds of America by John James Audubon published.The Birds of America: from Original Drawings 21 March 2019 Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/birds-america-original-drawings-event-exhib-6423 This work was originally published via a subscription model, with 5 plate illustrations per installment.Audubon's Works Louisiana State University Libraries https://guides.lib.lsu.edu/c.php?g=1133247&p=8270718 23 April 2026 Death of Morten Thrane Brünnich, the author of Ornithologia Borealis and the namesake of Brünnich's guillemot.Brünnich, M.T. Ornithologia borealis, sistens collectionem avium 1764 10.5962/bhl.title.158730 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/158730 Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThick-billed Murre All About Birds Cornell Lab of Ornithology https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Thick-billed_Murre/overview Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein describes the willow tit (as Parus cinereus montanus, a subspecies of cinereous tit).von Baldenstein Thomas C. 1827 Nachrichten über die Sumpf-Meife (Mönchs-Meife) - (Parus palustris Linn.) de Report on the Marsh Tit (Monk Tit) - (Parus palustris Linn.) Neue Alpina 2 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41754078 31 Thomas Horsfield and Nicholas Aylward Vigors publish A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities William Swainson publishes descriptions of the birds collected by W. Bullock on a trip to Mexico, in which Bullock's oriole and red-headed tanager are first described.Swainson William 1827 A synopsis of the Birds discovered in Mexico by W. Bullock, F.L.S. and H.S., and Mr. William Bullock, jun. The Philosophical Magazine and Annals of Philosophy 1 433 – 442 10.1080/14786442708674357 Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy established by Robert Edmond Grant who had campaigning for a new Zoological Society museum run professionally rather than by aristocratic grandees and tried to turn the British Museum into a research institution run along French lines. René Primevère Lesson new bird species in Voyage autour du monde exécuté par Ordre du Roi sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 (Atlas) Giuseppe Acerbi describes the Yelkouan shearwater Charles Lucien Bonaparte publishes Specchio Comparativo delle Ornithologie di Roma e di Filadelfia in Pisa 1827-1833 Jan van der Hoeven publishes "Handboek der Dierkunde" A second edition was published in 1855 References Category:Birding and ornithology by year Category:1827 in science