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). Lord Charles Somerset founds the South African Museum. Carl Peter Holbøll, who described synonyms of hoary redpoll and gyrfalcon, becomes Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in South Greenland. The Bergen Museum is founded.
Expeditions
The voyage of HMS Blossom begins, and would last until 1828 after 3 years in Pacific Ocean. This expedition, under Frederick William Beechey, provided some of the first European descriptions of the birds of the Bonin Islands.
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
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