page_title: Timeline of ornithology
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of ornithology / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Wood engraving of Egyptian Vulture from William Yarrell's A History of British Birds, 1843. This is the first page of the main text. The background of the image shows camels and a pyramid. The scientific names and their authors are listed. Drawing directly onto wood block by Alexander Fussell. Engraving by John Thompson.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of ornithology events:
context_section_description: 1800–1804 – "Le Geographe" and "Le Naturaliste" leave France for the Pacific Ocean under the overall command of  Nicolas Baudin. The naturalists on board  made a collection of over 100,000 zoological specimens. Many bird species will be described by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot and published in Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle (1816–1819).
  1800–1817 – Johann Conrad Susemihl publishes a 22-part survey of the birds of Germany, Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen.
  1801 – Alexander Wilson begins his study of North American birds, resulting in his American Ornithology (1808–1814), completed by George Ord, and later updated by Charles Lucien Bonaparte.
  1802 – Publication of George Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary. In this year also Histoire des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops by Jean Baptiste Audebert was published two years after his death.
  1802 – Louis Dufresne  popularizes the use of arsenical soap for preserving birds, a technique which had enabled the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris to build the greatest collection of birds in the world
  1804 Bewick's British Birds: see 1797
  1804– 1806 –  Lewis and Clark Expedition. This was the first overland expedition undertaken by the United States to the Pacific coast and back. The many birds seen include Steller's jay and greater prairie chicken.
  1805 –  Johann Fischer von Waldheim  founded  the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow.
  1806 –  André Marie Constant Duméril publishes Zoologie analytique reducing the number of bird orders to six
  1806 –  Sébastien Gérardin publishes Tableau élémentaire d'ornithologie, ou Histoire naturelle des oiseaux que l'on rencontre communément en France
  1811 – Publication of Peter Simon Pallas' Zoographia Russo-Asiatica includes details of the birds encountered in his journeys through Siberia
  1811 –  Marie Jules Cesar Lelorgne de Savigny publishes Système des oiseaux de l'Égypte et de la Syrie
  1811 –  Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger published Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium in which he proposed the review of the Linnean system and firmly established the concept of  the Family  earlier proposed by François Marie Daudin. Illiger is considered the founder of the School of Nomenclatural Purists.
  1812–13 –  Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler describes new birds in Naturgeschichte Deutschlands begun by Johann Matthäus Bechstein. One is the little stint
  1812 –  Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia founded.
  1815 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck publishes his Manuel d'ornithologie, the standard work on European birds for many years
  1817–1820 –  Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix and  Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius expedition to Brazil. They collect 350 bird species which are conserved in Zoologische Staatssammlung München.
  1819–1826 Friedrich Strack Naturgeschichte in Bildern mit erlauterdem Arnz & Co., Düsseldorf.
  1820 –  Heinrich Kuhl  travels to Java with Johan Coenraad van Hasselt. They send 2000 bird skins to the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie founded in the same year 1820.
  1820–1844 –  Johann Friedrich Naumann publishes Naturgeschichte der Vögel Deutschlands, The Natural History of German Birds
  1820–23 –  Encouraged by William Elford Leach William John Swainson became the first illustrator and naturalist to use lithography for  his Zoological Illustrations a relatively cheap work which did not require an engraver.
  (1826–39) –  René Primevère Lesson writes the vertebrate zoological section of Voyage au tour du monde sur La Coquille. Lesson was the first naturalist to see live birds of paradise in the Moluccas and New Guinea.
  1826–1829 –  Jules Dumont d'Urville commands the first voyage of the Astrolabe. Zoological specimens from the South Pacific are collected for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. These include many birds.
  1826–1829 –  Russian Senjawin expedition. Heinrich von Kittlitz collects 754 specimens of 314 bird species, including unique specimens of species that subsequently became extinct to the museum of th
caption: Egyptian vulture in William Yarrell's History of British Birds (1843)
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