1852 in birding and ornithology

Death of William Thompson, a pioneer of ornithology in Ireland. Death of Louis François Auguste Souleyet, a prominent malacologist and the namesake for the streak-headed woodcreeper. Paul Gervais describes the Eocene bird genus Ludiortyx Sulawesi pygmy woodpecker described by Alfred Malherbe Death of Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff August Carl Eduard Baldamus, Christian Ludwig Brehm, Johann Wilhelm von Müller and Johann Friedrich Naumann publish Verzeichnis der Vögel Europa's. als Tausch-Catalog eingerichtet in Stuttgart. In this year also Müller began work on the illustrated book Beiträge zur Ornithologie Afrikas (1853–1870), Ongoing events John Gould The birds of Australia; Supplement 1851–69. 1 vol. 81 plates; Artists: J. Gould and H. C. Richter; Lithographer: H. C. Richter John Gould The birds of Asia; 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers:H. C. Richter and W. Hart

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