title: 1825 in birding and ornithology
text: # 1825 in birding and ornithology
  
  ## Events
  
  * Bernard Germain de LacépèdeDeath of Bernard Germain de Lacépède
  * Charles Lucien Bonaparte updates Wilson's American Ornithology as American ornithology, or, The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson : with figures drawn, engraved, and coloured, from nature. He added more than 100 species.
  * William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby commence the serial publication Illustrations of Ornithology (1825–1843).
  * The Volieren (aviary) for birds of prey opened at Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris
  * Lord Charles Somerset founds the South African Museum
  * 1825–1828 Carl Peter Holbøll becomes Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in South Greenland
  * Foundation of Bergen Museum.
  
  ## Expeditions
  
  * 1825-28 Circumnavigation by the sloop H.M.S. "Blossom" under Frederick William Beechey (commander), Edward Belcher (surveyor), Alexander Collie,(surgeon and naturalist), George Tradescant Lay (naturalist)
  
  ## Ongoing events
  
  * 1824-1825 Johann Baptist von Spix Avium Species Novae Birds first described in this work in 1825 include the social flycatcher, the spot-winged wood-quail, the black-fronted piping-guan, the blue-crowned manakin, the razor-billed curassow, and the wattled curassow
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