1832 in birding and ornithology
# 1832 in birding and ornithology

* William Henry Sykes publishes his catalogues of birds and mammals of the Deccan in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. This included fifty-six birds new to science, including the Indian pond heron.
* Édouard Ménétries describes Sylvia mystacea now known as Menetries's warbler
* René Primevère Lesson commences Illustrations de Zoologie (1832–35)
* Johann Georg Wagler moves the northern bald ibis to a new genus Geronticus (from the genus Upupa Carl Linnaeus, 1758)
* Death of Georges Cuvier
* Death of Karl Rudolphi
* Death of Louis Dufresne
* Charles Lucien Bonaparte commences Iconografia della Fauna Italica (1832–1841)
* The Reverend John Bachman, who presented study skins and descriptions to his friend and collaborator John James Audubon, discovers Bachman's warbler.
* Foundation of Muséum d'histoire naturelle de La Rochelle
* George Loddiges describes the mountain avocetbill, the Tyrian metaltail and the buff-tailed coronet
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