1801 in birding and ornithology
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Perruche Ara Guarouba femelle
" painted by Jacques Barraband. From
Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets
by François Levaillant
John Latham
publishes
A General Synopsis of Birds
(1781–1801)
Jacques Barraband
is commissioned to produce a series of watercolours of birds by
Napoleon Bonaparte
.
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
spends two years exploring
Réunion
and other islands in the Indian Ocean.
Birds described in 1801 include the
Norfolk Island ground-dove
, the
Puerto Rican emerald
, the
bell miner
the
pallid cuckoo
and the
purple swamphen
The
green mango hummingbird
described by
Louis Pierre Vieillot
and
Jean Baptiste Audebert
in
Oiseaux dorés, ou à reflets métalliques
Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg (Natural History Society of
Nuremberg
founded. The society's museum is
Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e. V.
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