title: 1843 in birding and ornithology
text: # 1843 in birding and ornithology
  
  * Heinrich Gätke begins to study birds on Heligoland
  * Louis Hippolyte Bouteille publishes Ornithologie du Dauphiné ou description des oiseaux observés dans les départements de l'Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes Alpes et les contrées voisines.
  * Isaac Sprague serves as an assistant to John James Audubon on an ornithological expedition up the Missouri River
  * John Cotton begins work on his Birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales
  * William Yarrell publishes The History of British Birds
  * Edward Hearle Rodd begins a record of the birds of the Scilly Isles
  * Johann Jakob von Tschudi describes the Peruvian booby in Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin
  * Antonio Schembri publishes Catalogo Ornitologico del Gruppo di Malta
  * Antwerp Zoo established
  * Tasmanian Society Museum founded
  
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