1826 in birding and ornithology

Years in birding and ornithology:	1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829

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Death of Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
Death of Gustaf von Paykull
Death of Johann Baptist von Spix
Christian Ludwig Nitzsch publishes Anatomie der Vögel (Bird Anatomy) in Meckels Archiv für Anatomie und Physiologie
Eduard Friedrich Poeppig begins scientific exploration throughout Chile, Peru and Brazil.
Eduard Rüppell's "Atlas of Rüppell's Travels in Northern Africa" (1826–30) includes an ornithological section by Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar describing around thirty new species, including Meyer's parrot, Nubian bustard, goliath heron, streaked scrub warbler and Cretzschmar's bunting.
Charles Payraudeau describes Audouin's gull discovered on an expedition to Corsica

Expeditions

1826-1829 Voyage of L'Astrolabe (French) to the Coast of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Loyalty Islands. Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), Surgeon Naturalists Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858) and Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869), Pharmacian-botanist : Pierre Adolphe Lesson (1805–1888).
1826-1829 Circumnavigation by the Seniavine Captain Fiodor Litke (1797–1882), Surgeon Naturalist Franz Carl Mertens (1764–1831), Naturalist Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874), Mineralogist Alexander Postels.
Paul-Émile Botta selected to be the naturalist on a voyage around the world on Le Heros under Captain Auguste Bernard Duhaut-Cilly (1790–1849)

Ongoing events

Coenraad Jacob Temminck Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux Birds first described in this work in 1826 include the white-throated nightjar, the checker-throated woodpecker, the great-billed kingfisher, the spectacled monarch, the Cuban green woodpecker and the Sunda thrush

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vanikoro flycatcher</span> Species of bird

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The yellow-throated woodpecker is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Postels</span> Russian scientist and artist

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Expeditions

Expeditions

The era of European and American voyages of scientific exploration followed the Age of Discovery and were inspired by a new confidence in science and reason that arose in the Age of Enlightenment. Maritime expeditions in the Age of Discovery were a means of expanding colonial empires, establishing new trade routes and extending diplomatic and trade relations to new territories, but with the Enlightenment scientific curiosity became a new motive for exploration to add to the commercial and political ambitions of the past. See also List of Arctic expeditions and List of Antarctic expeditions.

Johann Baptist Fischer, born 1803 in Munich (Germany), died 30 May 1832 in Leiden was a German naturalist, zoologist and botanist, doctor and surgeon.

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Years in birding and ornithology:	1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years:	1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829