1827 in birding and ornithology

First part of Birds of America by John James Audubon published. Teyler's Museum was a notable Subscriber.
John Gould becomes the first Curator and Preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London
Death of Morten Thrane BrÃÂ¼nnich
Thomas Conrad von Baldenstein describes the willow tit
Thomas Horsfield and Nicholas Aylward Vigors publish A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities
William Swainson publishes A synopsis of the birds discovered in Mexico by W. BullockF.L.S
Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy established by Robert Edmond Grant who had campaigning for a new Zoological Society museum run professionally rather than by aristocratic grandees and tried to turn the British Museum into a research institution run along French lines.
RenÃÂ© PrimevÃÂ¨re Lesson new bird species in Voyage autour du monde exÃÂ©cutÃÂ© par Ordre du Roi sur la Corvette de Sa MajestÃÂ©, La Coquille pendant les annÃÂ©es 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 (Atlas)
Giuseppe Acerbi describes the Yelkouan shearwater
Charles Lucien Bonaparte publishes Specchio Comparativo delle Ornithologie di Roma e di Filadelfia in Pisa
1827-1833 Jan van der Hoeven publishes "Handboek der Dierkunde" A second edition was published in 1855