1850 in birding and ornithology

none Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|The now extinct Bonin grosbeak was placed in a new genus in Charles Bonaparte's 1850 monograph Conspectus Generum Avium Birds Birds described in 1850 include bee hummingbird, Wilson's bird-of-paradise, blue swallow, blue-shouldered robin-chat, Bornean banded pitta, Cape white-eye, grey-collared oriole, long-billed crow, purple-bearded bee-eater, Shoebill Extinction of the spectacled cormorant Edward Smith-Stanley obtains a grey trembler specimen from the bird collector Jules Verreaux People Death of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Publications Charles Lucien Bonaparte publishes Conspectus Generum Avium (Leyden); Revue critique de l'ornithologie Européenne (Brussels) and fr Monographie des loxiens (crossbills, grosbeaks, and allied species) (Leyden) John Gould commences The Birds of Asia (1850–83) Francis Orpen Morris begins A History of British Birds (1850–1857) Frédéric de Lafresnaye 1850. Essai d'une monographie du genre Picule (Buffon), Dendrocolaptes (Hermann, Illiger), devenu aujourd'hui la sous-famille Dendrocolaptinæ (Gray, Genera of birds), de la famille de Certhiadæ de Swains. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée online BHL Ongoing events Fauna Japonica Institutions Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft founded The Berlin Museum has a total of 13,760 bird specimens Category:Birding and ornithology by year Category:1850 in science