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- Events
- Deaths
- References
{{Refimprove|date=June 2018}}This article provides a summary of significant events in 1820 in birding and ornithology. Notable occurrences in 1820 include the first description of the yellow-legged tinamou, and the commencement of ornithologist William John Swainson's Zoological Illustrations, a work including illustrations of many birds. {{Year box|decade prefix=Bird species new to science described in the}}Events- Heinrich Kuhl travels in Java collecting birds for the collections in Leiden
- Heinrich Kuhl publishes {{Lang|la|Conspectus Psittacorum. Cum specierum definitionibus, novarum descriptionibus, synonymis et circa patriam singularum naturalem adversariis, adjecto indice museorum, urbi earum artificiosae exuviae servantur}}. Bonn (also in Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. Vol.X). In this work he described many new parrot species. Among them are the red-capped parrot, the white-bellied parrot the Un-cape parrot, the vulturine parrot the short-tailed parrot the western rosella the blue-winged parrot the scaly-breasted lorikeet the scaly-headed parrot the golden-tailed parrotlet the northern rosella the black-collared lovebird and the vinaceous-breasted amazon
- Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot undertakes the continuation of {{Lang|fr|Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique}}, commenced by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre in 1790
- Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied describes the yellow-legged tinamou
- Leach's storm petrel named after William Elford Leach by Coenraad Jacob Temminck without Temminck being aware that it had previously been described by Vieillot.
- Short-toed treecreeper named by Christian Ludwig Brehm
- William John Swainson commences Zoological Illustrations (1820–23)
- Coenraad Jacob Temminck commences {{Lang|fr|Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux}}. New species described in this work in 1820 include the rufous-vented ground cuckoo, the cinereous antshrike, the northern white-faced owl, the olivaceous flatbill, the streaky-breasted honeyeater, Verreaux's eagle-owl and the Timor blue flycatcher
- Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie established
Deaths- 19 June - Joseph Banks (born 1743)[1]
- 9 August - Anders Sparrman (born 1748)[2]
References1. ^{{cite web |title=Sir Joseph Banks |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/banks_sir_joseph.shtml |website=BBC - History |accessdate=10 June 2018}}
2. ^{{cite book |last1=Benson |first1=Keith R. |last2=Benson |first2=Keith Rodney |last3=Rehbock |first3=Philip F. |title=Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond |date=2002 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=9780295982397 |page=230 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kfv059OL6kQC&pg=PA230|language=en}}
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