Carl Friedrich Bruch (March 11, 1789 – December 21, 1857) was a German ornithologist.
He was the younger brother of bryologist Philipp Bruch (1781–1847).
[1] He was a catalyst towards the establishment of the Rheinische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (1834).
[2] In 1828, he proposed a system of trinomial nomenclature for species, in contrast to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus.
[citation needed] The following are a list of ornithological species described by Bruch: