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1801 in birding and ornithology
John Latham
publishes
A General Synopsis of Birds
(1781âÂÂ1801)
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
Réunion
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 dorés, ou àreflets métalliques
Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg (Natural History Society of
Nuremberg
founded. The society's museum is
Naturhistorische Gesellschaft Nürnberg e. V.