1805 in birding and ornithology

The entomologist Gustaf von Paykull described the crab plover in Kongl. Vetenskaps Akademiens Handlingar Stockholm https://www.gbif.org/species/5229199 Marie Jules César Savigny published an account of the sacred ibis titled Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9609562w.image King Island emu became extinct in the wild. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22728643/226828460 Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper became professor of zoology and director of the zoology museum at Erlangen university. Esper, Eugen Johann Christoph. (1777). Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen : nach der Natur mit Beschriebungen Europäische Gattungen. W. Walthers. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.152936 Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim founded the Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. https://moip.msu.ru/assets/doc/Ustav.pdf Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest published Desmarest, A.-G. (1805). Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins et des todiers. Garnery [etc.]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40241728

Ongoing events Louis Pierre Vieillot Histoire naturelle des plus beaux oiseaux chanteur de la zone torride Birds described in this work in 1805 include the black-bellied seedcracker, the orange weaver and the black-necked weaver

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