1825 in birding and ornithology
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Events
- Death of Bernard Germain de Lacépède
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte updates Wilson's American Ornithology as American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson : with figures drawn, engraved, and coloured, from nature. He added more than 100 species.
- William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby commence the serial publication Illustrations of Ornithology (1825–1843).
- The Volieren (aviary) for birds of prey opened at Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris
- Lord Charles Somerset founds the South African Museum
- 1825–1828 Carl Peter Holbøll becomes Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in South Greenland
- Foundation of Bergen Museum.
Expeditions
- 1825-28 Circumnavigation by the sloop H.M.S. "Blossom" under Frederick William Beechey (commander), Edward Belcher (surveyor), Alexander Collie,(surgeon and naturalist), George Tradescant Lay (naturalist)
Ongoing events
- 1824-1825 Johann Baptist von Spix Avium Species Novae Birds first described in this work in 1825 include the social flycatcher, the spot-winged wood-quail, the black-fronted piping-guan, the blue-crowned manakin, the razor-billed curassow, and the wattled curassow