1847 in birding and ornithology

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• Alfred Edmund Brehm joins Johann Wilhelm von Müller on an expedition to Egypt, the Sudan, and the Sinai peninsula.
• Death of Johann Conrad Susemihl
• Death of Giuseppe Géné^[1]
• René Primevère Lesson receives the Legion of Honour
• Jean Louis Cabanis erects the genus Geothlypis in Ornithologische Notizen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte
• William Henry Edwards publishes A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará

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• Fauna Japonica