Birds described in 1885 include semicollared flycatcher, Palawan hornbill, blue bird-of-paradise, lesser lophorina, brown sicklebill, Comoros cuckooshrike, Cozumel vireo, Indochinese green magpie, three-streaked tchagra, Lawes's parotia, Turquoise-winged parrotlet
Ongoing events
The year 1880 in birding and ornithology.
Birds described in 1883 include South Island takahe, Goldie's bird-of-paradise, black-crowned waxbill, marsh seedeater, peruvian plantcutter, saffron siskin, Tanimbar boobook, black-bibbed monarch, cinnamon-tailed fantail, flutist wren, Kolombangara monarch, slaty-headed longbill, Green-and-white hummingbird, large-billed parrotlet, grey-bellied comet
The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.
Birds described in 1886 include: Arizona woodpecker; blue ground dove; Brazza's martin;common smoky honeyeater; dark hawk-cuckoo;double-banded greytail; blue-breasted blue flycatcher ; snoring rail; point-tailed palmcreeper; and little minivet.
Birds described in 1890 include the bamboo warbler, blue-capped ifrit, red satinbird, Española cactus finch, grey-striped spurfowl, hooded cuckooshrike, Laysan finch, maroon-naped sunbird, Patagonian tinamou and Townsend's shearwater.
Birds described in 1892 include the Laysan honeycreeper, Abyssinian crimsonwing, Chatham raven, black oriole, Tullberg's woodpecker, spotted nightjar, Hose's broadbill, Bolivian earthcreeper, Chubb's cisticola, greater ground robin, streak-throated hermit, green-breasted bushshrike and the Gough moorhen.
Birds described in 1893 include Attwater's prairie chicken, the Auckland rail, blue-winged racket-tail, black-winged petrel, Laysan albatross, Chatham petrel, Mauritius night heron, Mauritius scops owl, purple-breasted sunbird, violet-throated metaltail, white-bellied tyrannulet, Whyte's barbet and the white-bellied crested flycatcher.