- René Primevère Lesson publishes Manuel d'Ornithologie
- Justin Goudot began collecting bird skins for the Paris museum which held what was then world's largest bird collection .
- Death of Thomas Bewick
- Death of Carl Peter Thunberg
- Magnus and Wilhelm von Wright begin the illustrative work Svenska Foglar (Swedish birds). Completion takes 10 years.
- Carl Friedrich Bruch proposes a system of trinomial nomenclature for species.
- Salomon Müller collects bird specimens for Coenraad Jacob Temminck on the island of Timor
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Hemprich describe the greater blue-eared glossy-starling and the rosy-patched bushshrike in Symbolae Physicae
- Phillip Parker King describes the imperial shag, the bronze-winged duck, the austral pygmy owl, the Patagonian crested duck, the Magellanic woodpecker, the rufous-legged owl and the austral rail.
- Sarah Countess Amherst, wife of William Pitt Amherst, Governor General of Bengal, sends the first specimen of Lady Amherst's pheasant to London.
Ongoing events
- Coenraad Jacob Temminck Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux Birds first described in this work in 1828 include the black-browed albatross, the comb-crested jacana and the tawny eagle
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