page_title: 1852 in birding and ornithology
hierarchical_section_title: 1852 in birding and ornithology
caption_attribution_description: English: Lovely Fairy-wren (Malurus amabilis) Portland Roads, Cape York, North Queensland, Australia
context_page_description: Death of Charles Thorold Wood
  Death of William Thompson
  Death of Louis François Auguste Souleyet
  Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, describes the eastern moa in Avium systema naturale
  Paul Gervais describes the Eocene bird genus Ludiortyx
  Sulawesi woodpecker described by Alfred Malherbe
  Death of Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
  August Carl Eduard Baldamus, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Johann Wilhelm von Müller and Johann Friedrich Naumann publish Verzeichnis der Vögel Europa's. als Tausch-Catalog eingerichtet in Stuttgart. In this year also Müller began work on the illustrated book Beiträge zur Ornithologie Afrikas,
  Ongoing events
  John Gould The birds of Australia; Supplement 1851–69. 1 vol. 81 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter
  John Gould The birds of Asia; 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers:H. C. Richter and W. Hart
context_section_description: Death of Charles Thorold Wood
  Death of  William Thompson
  Death of Louis François Auguste Souleyet
  Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach, describes the eastern moa in  Avium systema naturale
  Paul Gervais describes the Eocene bird genus Ludiortyx
  Sulawesi woodpecker described by  Alfred Malherbe
  Death of Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
  August Carl Eduard Baldamus, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Johann Wilhelm von Müller  and Johann Friedrich Naumann  publish Verzeichnis der Vögel Europa's. als Tausch-Catalog eingerichtet in Stuttgart. In this year also Müller began work on the illustrated book Beiträge zur Ornithologie Afrikas (1853–1870),
  Ongoing events
  John Gould The birds of Australia; Supplement 1851–69. 1 vol. 81 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter
  John Gould The birds of Asia; 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers:H. C. Richter and W. Hart
caption: the lovely fairywren a species described in 1852
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