1833 in birding and ornithology

Years in birding and ornithology: 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836
Centuries: 18th century · 19th century · 20th century
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Years: 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836
  • Death of Félix Louis L'Herminier
  • Samuel Tickell describes new birds from India in the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal. These include the jungle owlet, Tickell's thrush and the thick-billed flowerpecker.
  • Richard Owen dissects a specimen of a great hornbill noting highly pneumatized bones, with hollow air cavities extending to the tips of their wing bones.
  • Brian Houghton Hodgson becomes British Resident in Kathmandu
  • William Jardine unites the hermit hummingbirds in a new subfamily the Phaethornithinae
  • Death of René Louiche Desfontaines
  • Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied expedition to the Interior of North America. One of the birds discovered was the pinyon jay.
  • Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger theorises that dark pigments increase in races of animals living in warm and humid habitats in a work entitled Das Abändern der Vögel durch Einfluss des Klima's
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