Timeline of ornithology

The following is a timeline of ornithology events:

Egyptian marshland hunting scene 1422–1411 BC
Francis Willughbys Ornithologia.
This work is considered to be the beginning of scientific ornithology in Europe, and which revolutionized ornithology, by organizing species according to their physical characteristics.
Wing of a European Roller , Albrecht Dürer , 1512
"Oriental Birds" Adriaen Coorte , 1683
Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Tahiti , by John Francis Rigaud (1742–1810), 1780
James Cook 's second voyage of exploration in the Pacific. The Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay , Tahiti .
Heron wood engraving in Thomas Bewick 's A History of British Birds
Plate by Johann Conrad Susemihl from the natural history series "Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände" by Lorenz Oken (1779–1851)
Zenaida dove Birds of America John James Audubon , 1827–1838
"Psittacara patagonica Patagonian Parrakeet-Maccaw" in Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots , by Edward Lear , 1832
Egyptian vulture in William Yarrell 's History of British Birds (1843)
Yellow-headed fan-tailed warbler Cisticola exilis tytleri from The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . 2nd edition, 1924
Rossitten Bird Observatory , 1939
Bird studies become part of educational programmes in European countries from the 1980s onwards. Here scouts in Spain are being instructed in bird ringing.
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