1847 in birding and ornithology
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Japanese_White_Eye_058.jpg/230px-Japanese_White_Eye_058.jpg)
- Alfred Edmund Brehm joins Johann Wilhelm von Müller on an expedition to Egypt, the Sudan, and the Sinai peninsula.
- Death of Johann Conrad Susemihl
- Death of Giuseppe Géné
- René Primevère Lesson receives the Legion of Honour
- Jean Louis Cabanis erects the genus Geothlypis in Ornithologische Notizen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte
- William Henry Edwards publishes A Voyage Up the River Amazon, with a residency at Pará
Ongoing events