1828 in birding and ornithology
# 1828 in birding and ornithology

* René Primevère Lesson publishes Manuel d'Ornithologie
* Justin Goudot began collecting bird skins for the Paris museum which held what was then world's largest bird collection .
* Death of Thomas Bewick
* Death of Carl Peter Thunberg
* Magnus and Wilhelm von Wright begin the illustrative work Svenska Foglar (Swedish birds). Completion takes 10 years.
* Carl Friedrich Bruch proposes a system of trinomial nomenclature for species.
* Salomon Müller collects bird specimens for Coenraad Jacob Temminck on the island of Timor
* Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Hemprich describe the greater blue-eared glossy-starling and the rosy-patched bushshrike in Symbolae Physicae
* Phillip Parker King describes the imperial shag, the bronze-winged duck, the austral pygmy owl, the Patagonian crested duck, the Magellanic woodpecker, the rufous-legged owl and the austral rail.
* Sarah Countess Amherst, wife of William Pitt Amherst, Governor General of Bengal, sends the first specimen of Lady Amherst's pheasant to London.

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