1801 in birding and ornithology

John Latham publishes A General Synopsis of Birds (1781Ã¢ÂÂ1801)
Jacques Barraband is commissioned to produce a series of watercolours of birds by Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent spends two years exploring RÃÂ©union and other islands in the Indian Ocean.
Birds described in 1801 include the Norfolk Island ground-dove, the Puerto Rican emerald, the bell miner the pallid cuckoo and the purple swamphen
The green mango hummingbird described by Louis Pierre Vieillot and Jean Baptiste Audebert in Oiseaux dorÃÂ©s, ou ÃÂ reflets mÃÂ©talliques
Naturhistorische Gesellschaft NÃÂ¼rnberg (Natural History Society of Nuremberg founded. The society's museum is Naturhistorische Gesellschaft NÃÂ¼rnberg e. V.