A summary of 1819 in birding and ornithology.
| Years in birding and ornithology: | 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s |
| Years: | 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 |
Events
- 1819 to 1862 Feliks Pawel Jarocki takes over the organisation and management of the Zoological Cabinet of the Royal University of Warsaw. In this year also he described the black-throated thrush.
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Black-throated Thrush - Quinarian system proposed by the entomologist William Sharp Macleay . The system was followed by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and William John Swainson.
- William Bullock sells his collection.
- Coenraad Jacob Temminck acquires the bird collection of Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster which contained birds from the James Cook expedition. One is the Norfolk Island kākā another is the Tahitian sandpiper
- Foundation of Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Ongoing events
- Louis Pierre Vieillot publishes the description of the unicoloured blackbird in Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine.[1] Other birds described by Vieillot in this work in 1819 are the chestnut-capped blackbird, the black-chested buzzard-eagle, the Chopi blackbird, Vieillot's black weaver, the giant wood rail and the boat-tailed grackle
Deaths
- 27 August - John Lewin (born 1770)
References
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