1834 in birding and ornithology

none August 2026 Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|Elizabeth Gould Elizabeth Gould collaborates with Edward Lear in illustrating A Monograph of the Ramphastidae 1834-1835 Charles Coxen travels through the sparsely settled country between the Hunter and Namoi Rivers, including the Liverpool Plains, collecting specimens of birds and mammals. Permanent human settlement on Lord Howe Island begins the extinction of the Lord Howe swamphen or white gallinule, white-throated pigeon, red-crowned parakeet and the Tasman booby. Franz Meyen describes species then new to science such as the Humboldt penguin and the mountain caracara Thomas Nuttall publishes Volume 2 (and last) of Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and of Canada (1832 and 1834) Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger publishes Vollständiges Handbuch der Naturgeschichte der Vögel Europas Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby withdraws from politics to concentrate on birds. Pink-footed goose described by Louis Antoine François Baillon in Mémoires de la Société Royale d'Émulation d'Abbeville Ongoing events John James Audubon continues the publication of his serial work, Birds of America and the corresponding Ornithological Bibliography. New bird species described in this work in 1834 include Lincoln's sparrowLincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii (Audubon, JJ 1834) AviBase - The World Bird Database https://avibase.ca/AF49F890 (as Fringilla lincolnii, the Lincoln finch),Audubon, J.J. 1834 Lincoln finch 193 Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library https://cdm16998.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16998coll33/id/197/ the king rail (as fresh-water marsh hen),Meanly Brooke 1969 Natural History of the King Rail North American Fauna 67 1 – 108 10.3996/nafa.67.0001 United States Fish & Wildlife Service Swainson's warblerAnich, N.M. Benson, T.J. Brown, J.D. Roa, C. Bednarz, J.C. Brown, R.E. Dickson, J.G. 2020 Swainson's Warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii), version 1.0 Birds of the World P. G. Rodewald Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca, NY, USA https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.swawar.01 and the Carolina chickadee (as Parus carolinensis, the Carolina titmouse).Audubon John James 1834 Ornithological Bibliography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America 2 Adam & Charles Black Edinburgh 341 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33239703 Biodiversity Heritage Library References Category:Birding and ornithology by year Category:1834 in science